She was killed because she murdered Jay's girlfriend in a fit of jealous rage. She'd have been just as dead if she'd been a normal girl.
She slayed a vampire who'd killed her best friend, you mean. And had she been a normal girl, she most likely wouldn't have thought herself able to.
In fact, being a Slayer gave her the chance to not die at the end
True. I'm not one of those saying the "Chosen" was a Very Bad Thing. I'm not saying that being a Slayer in and of itself inevitably got her killed. But since she was a normal girl at heart, she wasn't able to be that cold. (Much like Buffy couldn't in "Innocence", for instance.) She had the physical strength, the bare bones of the mission, but not the wisdom required to guide her hand, to tackle her own demons.
And don't tell me you don't see any parallel, any significance in her first saying that she never wanted to be a Slayer, only to then yet again be turned into something we know she doesn't want to be? "Here's where you make a choice", Buffy told two dozen girls out of 1800, having already made the decision to turn them into Slayers. "This isn't about her choice. It's about my choice", says Jay and turns Alex into a monster. "This isn't real, but I just wanna..." "...having the courage to feel something." Where do we go from here?
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Date: 2009-07-08 12:30 am (UTC)She slayed a vampire who'd killed her best friend, you mean. And had she been a normal girl, she most likely wouldn't have thought herself able to.
In fact, being a Slayer gave her the chance to not die at the end
True. I'm not one of those saying the "Chosen" was a Very Bad Thing. I'm not saying that being a Slayer in and of itself inevitably got her killed. But since she was a normal girl at heart, she wasn't able to be that cold. (Much like Buffy couldn't in "Innocence", for instance.) She had the physical strength, the bare bones of the mission, but not the wisdom required to guide her hand, to tackle her own demons.
And don't tell me you don't see any parallel, any significance in her first saying that she never wanted to be a Slayer, only to then yet again be turned into something we know she doesn't want to be? "Here's where you make a choice", Buffy told two dozen girls out of 1800, having already made the decision to turn them into Slayers. "This isn't about her choice. It's about my choice", says Jay and turns Alex into a monster. "This isn't real, but I just wanna..." "...having the courage to feel something." Where do we go from here?