Re: The essential B/W moments for fic writers?

["ebailey140" <ebailey140@xxxxxxx>]

--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Howard Russell"
<howardrussell2000@y...> wrote:

> In the fourth season, their 'ship was
shattered--intentionally--primarily from "Hush" on.  In "Hush" was
Willow and Buffy's ONLY scripted hand holding.  It was a passing of
the torch, if you will, from Buffy holding her hand early in the
episode and Tara holding it at the end.  But that raises an
interesting point--all the hand holding and arm-in-arm scenes prior to
that episode were unscripted.  They were the work of SMG and AH on
their own; their interpretation of the 'ship called for them to hold
hands almost every episode, walk arm-in-arm together when paired with
a straight couple doing the same.  Post Tara, it was her hand that
Willow was holding where once it was Buffy's.  I've heard rumors that
it was deliberate; that the subtext between our two girls was quashed
so that W/T would not be threatened.  Buffy and Willow could no longer
be physically affectionate lest the OTL of W/T would be called into
question.

Yep, and I think that was the reason Anya was brought back, that
season.  Sarah had great chemistry with Nick, too, and Joss was
determined to push the Riley thing, so Xander needed a girlfriend, and
quickly.  B/X just seemed the natural outcome (with Willow still being
strong with Oz, at that point) of a post-Angel and Cordy Sunnydale. 
This was especially noticable in The Freshman.

Sarah must have driven Joss nuts, this way, because several ships
started because of how she and a co-star would play their scenes,
together.  Two of those, Fuffy and Spuffy, wound up written into the
show.  But, the same thing would happen with her scenes with Aly,
Nick, and Tony.  Maybe she was conciously keeping Buffy's romantic
options open, thinking "Well, if we go here down the line, we've got
it all set up".  :)

Amber and Emma were up to their assigned tasks of distracting the
audience.  Marc and Iyari were not, so the audience didn't accept
them.  I would have hoped Joss would have learned his lesson the first
time, with Riley.  That's why S4 was the high point of Unconventional
Buffy Shipping, because the rest of the cast came off as better
matches for Buffy than Riley did.  S7 left audiences wondering how,
with Buffy, Dawn, AND Anya right there, Willow only had eyes for
KENNEDY?!!!  Even the official Buffy magazine, the official propaganda
publication for the show, wondered how Willow didn't notice how hot
that blonde she'd been hanging out with for seven years was.      
> That marks the difference between almost all pre and post Tara fics.
Pre-Tara, our two girls take their already very close friendship to
the next level; post Tara, their quest to recapture their friendship
of years past takes them over the edge into passion.  Because their
friendship was severely toned down after Tara appeared.  It only makes
sense really; once she fell for Tara, she realized her true feeling
for Buffy and pushed her away in favor of Tara.  She wouldn't want to
repeat the mistakes of her past and be caught fluking again.  Better
to ensure that such a fluke couldn't happen.
> So almost all of my favorite 'shippy moments come pre-Tara.
>
> For essential Wiffy moments, I'd have to site the entire first season.
> They don't act like new friends, they're like life-long commrades. 
They are so close to each other, they act like lover's from a
Harlequin romance.  They communicate on all levels--not just in words
but in tiny gestures and knowing glances--they are immediately
physically affectionate, they support each other in all things without
question, and each faces their own fears for the other.  They have a
relationship that all couples everywhere can envy; that's why I'm a
Wiffy 'shipper.
> And don't forget "Doppelgangland."  See how devastating even the
idea of Willow's death is to Buffy.  Only the death of her mother
effected her as deeply.
> For character scenes, I look to their fights.
> Dead Man's Party
> Bad Girls
> Fear, Itself
> Two To Go/Grave
> When fighting, their inner motivations were revealed.
>
> Anyway, that's my two cents.

Bad Girls, definately, and any of the Willow vs Faith episodes
(Consequences, Choices, This Year's Girl).  In the last one, Willow's
downright catty in explaining Faith to Tara (She's like this cleavagy
slutbomb walking around going (mocking tone) "Ooh, check me out, I'm
wicked cool, I'm five by five.").  OK, if she's just concerned about
this person being a psychopath, why bring up her especially sexual way
of carrying herself?  There's a LOT of things I'd been wondering about
if I'd been Tara.

E  





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