Buffy is once again driven back into being a pawn in the male narrative (and I guess you could say this might be intentional, but that doesn't change anything)
Exactly. It seems to me that's explicitly the point: in order for there to even be a Buffy The Vampire Slayer after "Chosen", they pretty much have to ignore or undo the fact that "Chosen" tore down the very basis for Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Buffy defeats the narrative, so the narrator simply says she didn't. It's basically like the scene in Funny Games where the heroine kills one of the villains, only for the other villain to grab a remote, rewind the movie, and disarm her before she can do it. Except in this case, it seems to be done only because that's the only way they know of telling the story.
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Exactly. It seems to me that's explicitly the point: in order for there to even be a Buffy The Vampire Slayer after "Chosen", they pretty much have to ignore or undo the fact that "Chosen" tore down the very basis for Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Buffy defeats the narrative, so the narrator simply says she didn't. It's basically like the scene in Funny Games where the heroine kills one of the villains, only for the other villain to grab a remote, rewind the movie, and disarm her before she can do it. Except in this case, it seems to be done only because that's the only way they know of telling the story.