I agree almost completely. :) In fact, it's an interesting reversal in that the only time Willow seems to see the two sides as entirely different people is in her rant in "Two To Go" where she starts referring to Willow in the third person, and even then she only manages that for a few sentences before returning to the "I" statements. And throught s7, she refers to Dark!Willow as something she did, as something that's in her, as something that will come out if she loses control, etc. To the point where she even (quite understandably, IMO) struggles to feel sorry about killing Warren - "I killed him for a reason!"
WILLOW: Hey. You OK? You've been kinda quiet since... KENNEDY: You sucked the life out of me? WILLOW: Yeah, since then. Look, it's important that you know what I am, what I'm like when I'm like that. KENNEDY: I thought it would be... I don't know - cool somehow. It just hurt. WILLOW: I'm really sorry. It's just, you were the most powerful person nearby, and - well, that's-that's how it works. That's how I work.
The bit where I'm not entirely sure it works is the question of whether Dark!Willow, all colour coordinated black veininess, isn't still a little too convenient. Willow acknowledges that that's her, that those were her actions, that she's responsible for them... but arguably, the quest becomes more about regaining confidence without turning into Dark!Willow again than about facing the deep-seated issues that led to Dark!Willow. I waffle back and forth on that.
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Date: 2012-04-13 11:30 am (UTC)WILLOW: Hey. You OK? You've been kinda quiet since...
KENNEDY: You sucked the life out of me?
WILLOW: Yeah, since then. Look, it's important that you know what I am, what I'm like when I'm like that.
KENNEDY: I thought it would be... I don't know - cool somehow. It just hurt.
WILLOW: I'm really sorry. It's just, you were the most powerful person nearby, and - well, that's-that's how it works. That's how I work.
The bit where I'm not entirely sure it works is the question of whether Dark!Willow, all colour coordinated black veininess, isn't still a little too convenient. Willow acknowledges that that's her, that those were her actions, that she's responsible for them... but arguably, the quest becomes more about regaining confidence without turning into Dark!Willow again than about facing the deep-seated issues that led to Dark!Willow. I waffle back and forth on that.