Via elisi, although I’m thinking I should friend you anyway.
Go right ahead if you want, I'll be happy to friend you back (my flist is getting a little unmanageable, so I hope that doesn't sound like bartering...)
(although even Xander can revitalise the merely clinically dead).
Sure, so did Pamela Anderson in Baywatch every week. :-) But the point is, he doesn't say that she had 4 seconds before he went into shock, but before he died of shock. Then he's NOT merely clinically dead, but... well, dead. I can come up with 3 or 4 reasons why the Slayer mechanism would work with clinical death (lack of modern medicine at the shadowmen's time, Slayers being more efficient the younger they are, the need for the shadowmen to control the Slayer, etc) but if you shoot someone and then rip their skin off, we're not talking about a mere case of respiratory arrest anymore.
Finding that the one positive thing Willow thought she’d achieved (removing the threat Warren posed to future Taras) was an illusion makes things more complicated not less for her.
Which is a good point, though I'm not sure Willow was thinking about future Taras so much as about Taras past when she killed Warren. She may have rationalized it that way later. But how does the "don't kill humans" rule work with that? Is it OK to kill humans if they pose a threat?
As for Amy being the significant villain, I'm not much more enthusiastic about that one, frankly. At least Warren had an arc once; Amy was never more than a trickster who showed up whenever they needed some black magic (not completely unlike Ethan Rayne). Though unlike Ethan, Amy tended to shift personality and ability to fit the story, and I really don't see her carrying a whole (or part of a whole) season. She used to be fun in small doses, but Spike/Dru/Angelus she ain't.
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Date: 2007-06-27 06:14 am (UTC)Go right ahead if you want, I'll be happy to friend you back (my flist is getting a little unmanageable, so I hope that doesn't sound like bartering...)
(although even Xander can revitalise the merely clinically dead).
Sure, so did Pamela Anderson in Baywatch every week. :-) But the point is, he doesn't say that she had 4 seconds before he went into shock, but before he died of shock. Then he's NOT merely clinically dead, but... well, dead. I can come up with 3 or 4 reasons why the Slayer mechanism would work with clinical death (lack of modern medicine at the shadowmen's time, Slayers being more efficient the younger they are, the need for the shadowmen to control the Slayer, etc) but if you shoot someone and then rip their skin off, we're not talking about a mere case of respiratory arrest anymore.
Finding that the one positive thing Willow thought she’d achieved (removing the threat Warren posed to future Taras) was an illusion makes things more complicated not less for her.
Which is a good point, though I'm not sure Willow was thinking about future Taras so much as about Taras past when she killed Warren. She may have rationalized it that way later. But how does the "don't kill humans" rule work with that? Is it OK to kill humans if they pose a threat?
As for Amy being the significant villain, I'm not much more enthusiastic about that one, frankly. At least Warren had an arc once; Amy was never more than a trickster who showed up whenever they needed some black magic (not completely unlike Ethan Rayne). Though unlike Ethan, Amy tended to shift personality and ability to fit the story, and I really don't see her carrying a whole (or part of a whole) season. She used to be fun in small doses, but Spike/Dru/Angelus she ain't.