Just as Buffy sees her affair with Spike as entirely bad and dirty and wrong, Willow comes to view using magic and using her power as something that makes her black and dark and evil, and after Wrecked, first runs as far away from magic and power as she can, and then after SR runs toward it as much as she can. It's less a story about corruption -- though it is about that -- as about how damaging binary conceptions of goodness can be.
Excellent point. There's definitely a parallel between the Buffy/Spike and the Willow/Magic plotlines, both in s6 and s7.
like Restless, she needs to have a costume to hide the nerd within.
Exactly. It's telling that right after she tries (and fails within seconds) to refer to "stupid mousy Willow" as a separate person, she shoots down Buffy's attempted "you have so much to live for" speech with three words:
WILLOW: You're trying to sell me on the world? The one where you lie to your friends when you're not trying to kill them and you screw a vampire just to feel and insane asylums are the comfy alternative? This world? Buffy, it's me! I know you were happier when you were in the ground. The only time you were ever at peace in your whole life is when you were dead.
I always wonder, in Villains, what would have happened had Warren been the one on that bus, rather than the Warrenbot -- i.e. if Willow had killed him before the "I'm not coming back" conversation.
Hmmm. That never struck me. Interesting. I wonder if there's fic of it. It wouldn't necessarily have ended up better - after all, Buffy at this point doesn't know that Tara is dead, and would probably take Willow commmitting cold-blooded murder for (as far as she knows) no good reason rather badly.
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Excellent point. There's definitely a parallel between the Buffy/Spike and the Willow/Magic plotlines, both in s6 and s7.
like Restless, she needs to have a costume to hide the nerd within.
Exactly. It's telling that right after she tries (and fails within seconds) to refer to "stupid mousy Willow" as a separate person, she shoots down Buffy's attempted "you have so much to live for" speech with three words:
WILLOW: You're trying to sell me on the world? The one where you lie to your friends when you're not trying to kill them and you screw a vampire just to feel and insane asylums are the comfy alternative? This world? Buffy, it's me! I know you were happier when you were in the ground. The only time you were ever at peace in your whole life is when you were dead.
I always wonder, in Villains, what would have happened had Warren been the one on that bus, rather than the Warrenbot -- i.e. if Willow had killed him before the "I'm not coming back" conversation.
Hmmm. That never struck me. Interesting. I wonder if there's fic of it. It wouldn't necessarily have ended up better - after all, Buffy at this point doesn't know that Tara is dead, and would probably take Willow commmitting cold-blooded murder for (as far as she knows) no good reason rather badly.