She also doesn't really HAVE to present arguments for moral truths that she knows exists, so that when she has to be put in the position of communicating the things she's internalized over the years, she often falls short (e.g. her speeches to the Potentials which can never really get to the central issue).
Oh yes.
I'd love to see a Joyce defense post. Joyce is disadvantaged by the story that essentially makes her an antagonist for the first two seasons, culminating in "Becoming" and early s3 up to "Band Candy" - not because she's against Buffy, but because Buffy is forced to hide secrets from her, and because Joyce's priorities of taking care of her teenage daughter actively clash with said daughter's of saving the world.
when she lets Buffy pack her bags for her in "Graduation Day" (and how wonderful is it that Buffy tries the same thing with Dawn and Dawn, The Next Generation, won't stand for it <3)
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Dawn was always very much Joyce's daughter.
I also really like the subtlety with which you dispense with Kennedy as a romantic threat to Willow/Fred ("all slayered out").
Thanks! As a member of the People Who Don't Hate Kennedy Club, I always feel a bit iffy about writing post-"Chosen" fic pairing Willow with someone else. It's not necessarily that I think Willow/Kennedy are a forever kind of love, but with all the fics I've read where Kennedy is either completely dismissed or turned evil, I want to treat her fairly. In this particular case, I couldn't really get into what happened between them, but I'd like to think it was just... one of those things that don't work, and part of the reason Willow's still upset about it is that she carries some of the blame for that.
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She also doesn't really HAVE to present arguments for moral truths that she knows exists, so that when she has to be put in the position of communicating the things she's internalized over the years, she often falls short (e.g. her speeches to the Potentials which can never really get to the central issue).
Oh yes.
I'd love to see a Joyce defense post. Joyce is disadvantaged by the story that essentially makes her an antagonist for the first two seasons, culminating in "Becoming" and early s3 up to "Band Candy" - not because she's against Buffy, but because Buffy is forced to hide secrets from her, and because Joyce's priorities of taking care of her teenage daughter actively clash with said daughter's of saving the world.
when she lets Buffy pack her bags for her in "Graduation Day" (and how wonderful is it that Buffy tries the same thing with Dawn and Dawn, The Next Generation, won't stand for it <3)
*icon*
Dawn was always very much Joyce's daughter.
I also really like the subtlety with which you dispense with Kennedy as a romantic threat to Willow/Fred ("all slayered out").
Thanks! As a member of the People Who Don't Hate Kennedy Club, I always feel a bit iffy about writing post-"Chosen" fic pairing Willow with someone else. It's not necessarily that I think Willow/Kennedy are a forever kind of love, but with all the fics I've read where Kennedy is either completely dismissed or turned evil, I want to treat her fairly. In this particular case, I couldn't really get into what happened between them, but I'd like to think it was just... one of those things that don't work, and part of the reason Willow's still upset about it is that she carries some of the blame for that.