The explanation of the rationale for Buffy's sacrifice is almost unbelievably stupid. The blood ceasing to flow doesn't mean death; I skinned my knee ten days ago and the blood ceased to flow within a couple of hours. I'm still alive. And, if it just needed to be Summers blood, the obvious thing to do was to track down Hank and keep him stashed somewhere in case they needed to throw him into the portal.
If I'd written anything as clunky and stupid I'd never have dared post it - and, in stories where I reference The Gift, I always revise the dialogue so that a death is implicit in the text rather than leaving everyone baffled as to why they didn't just slap a couple of Band-Aids on Dawn. I had to go through some incredible contortions in I Am The Walrus to justify Buffy sacrificing herself for Paul - although it was fun.
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Date: 2012-07-19 12:28 pm (UTC)If I'd written anything as clunky and stupid I'd never have dared post it - and, in stories where I reference The Gift, I always revise the dialogue so that a death is implicit in the text rather than leaving everyone baffled as to why they didn't just slap a couple of Band-Aids on Dawn. I had to go through some incredible contortions in I Am The Walrus to justify Buffy sacrificing herself for Paul - although it was fun.