Re: Re: E

["Strife Aileron" <stryker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> What about the hundreds upon hundreds of graves swallowed up by
Spike's magical McGuffin?  What about the Espresso Pump?  The
Bronze? Not of that stuff had any meaning?  Tara's grave?  Joyce's
grave? 

Which we were never going to see again, regardless.  Sunnydale was
going to be gone, for us, anyway.  But, for the characters, we know
there's life AFTER the Hellmouth.  We left them with hope for the
future, rather than condemned to an early and painful death.

Sure, it messes up some fanfic, but really, they had no
responsibility to maintain a status quo for the fic writers.  Their
only responsibility was to finish the story THEY started.      

Okay, here's where you lost any support from me.  It _does_ matter that Sunnydale is now the 'Crater-Formerly-Known-As.'  It does _not_ matter that we will never see it again.

 

For the past _seven_ years, Buffy has been fighting for Sunnydale's survival and, in the end, it doesn't seem to matter.  It was destroyed anyway.

 

All of the characters were tied to Sunnydale in some way.  They grew up there, they buried their mother or lover or friends there, they hung out at places in Sunnydale.

 

Hope?  For what?  That they will never visit their mother's, or friends, or lover's grave.  They will never get to go to the Bronze again, they will never get to ordr mochas at the Espresso Pump?

 

So, it doesn't matter that _we_ will never see Sunnydale.  But it _does_ matter that the characters will never see Sunnydale again.

 

~Strife Aileron

Willow: "It's a good fight, Buffy, and I want in."
Buffy:  "I kinda love you."
                      --'Choices'

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