There’s unexpected twist then there’s sudden 180 give me your details so I can sue for whiplash.
Heh. Yeah. Well put. :-)
This was an interesting observation by Buffy and an experience I think she’s missing. Back in the day’s of the slayer singular the goal was simple (Kill the bad fairy, destroy the bad fairy’s power center). Now with the slayer plural she’s trying to micromanage every facet of the operation and it’s overwhelming her.
Also a very good point. That still doesn't change, though, that Buffy ought to have some sort of goal, some sort of idea of what she's fighting for even if it's getting ever more complicated to know what she's fighting against. Like I said about the last issue, "saving the world" looks a slightly hollow phrase if it doesn't get more specified: saving what people in what world from what? What was Twilight's weapon, again?
TWILIGHT: The trick is to strip her of her greatest armor: her moral certainty.
Let’s be honest here for a second. I loved Riley’s character but he was not one for the independent thought.
True. But my argument is still the same as it was when we were discussing if Riley might be Twilight: Riley wants to do good. Would Riley stand by and nod approvingly as Willow gets tortured, as Xander and Dawn almost get blown and hacked to pieces, as Buffy almost gets a sword through her head...? I could buy him going against a Slayer organisation if it were faceless; but here he keeps coming up against people for whom he's never been shown to have anything less than friendship and admiration. That I have trouble buying. But obviously, the text disagrees with me here.
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Heh. Yeah. Well put. :-)
This was an interesting observation by Buffy and an experience I think she’s missing. Back in the day’s of the slayer singular the goal was simple (Kill the bad fairy, destroy the bad fairy’s power center). Now with the slayer plural she’s trying to micromanage every facet of the operation and it’s overwhelming her.
Also a very good point. That still doesn't change, though, that Buffy ought to have some sort of goal, some sort of idea of what she's fighting for even if it's getting ever more complicated to know what she's fighting against. Like I said about the last issue, "saving the world" looks a slightly hollow phrase if it doesn't get more specified: saving what people in what world from what? What was Twilight's weapon, again?
TWILIGHT: The trick is to strip her of her greatest armor: her moral certainty.
Let’s be honest here for a second. I loved Riley’s character but he was not one for the independent thought.
True. But my argument is still the same as it was when we were discussing if Riley might be Twilight: Riley wants to do good. Would Riley stand by and nod approvingly as Willow gets tortured, as Xander and Dawn almost get blown and hacked to pieces, as Buffy almost gets a sword through her head...? I could buy him going against a Slayer organisation if it were faceless; but here he keeps coming up against people for whom he's never been shown to have anything less than friendship and admiration. That I have trouble buying. But obviously, the text disagrees with me here.