while Willow (ever the pragmatist) picks and chooses the bits she needs.
Didn't Joss say Willow was his favorite character? That description sounds an awful lot like him. If making Buffy into a Christ-like figure in her dive in The Gift is what gets the biggest emotional bang for the buck, that's what he'll go with. (I actually do think it's more complex than that of course, but there is something of that in btvs anyway.)
I don't think she automatically qualifies as a goddess past a certain point.
That's pretty much how I see it Re: Kennedy's comment, I never used the term as a compliment to other women (or generically, to "feminine power") until I got into college and was introduced to feminist theology, modern-day paganism, Wicca, and the very notion of the Divine as female as well as male. that was unthinkable to me growing up sorta-kinda Catholic. A teacher was very careful to tell us "we worship God, we adore Mary" I had no idea that distinction had not always existed. So I think Kennedy's remark is there purposely: the Potentials are basically third-wave feminists and that would fit with the time period.
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Didn't Joss say Willow was his favorite character? That description sounds an awful lot like him. If making Buffy into a Christ-like figure in her dive in The Gift is what gets the biggest emotional bang for the buck, that's what he'll go with. (I actually do think it's more complex than that of course, but there is something of that in btvs anyway.)
I don't think she automatically qualifies as a goddess past a certain point.
That's pretty much how I see it Re: Kennedy's comment, I never used the term as a compliment to other women (or generically, to "feminine power") until I got into college and was introduced to feminist theology, modern-day paganism, Wicca, and the very notion of the Divine as female as well as male. that was unthinkable to me growing up sorta-kinda Catholic. A teacher was very careful to tell us "we worship God, we adore Mary" I had no idea that distinction had not always existed. So I think Kennedy's remark is there purposely: the Potentials are basically third-wave feminists and that would fit with the time period.