Within the story Buffy is no quantum physicist and can’t swear one way or the other.
Of course not. I don't think a quantum physicist could either.
Fray’s world and everyone in it, by clinging to their own existence, wipe out that alternate future and all the people in that.
Except from Fray's perspective, she doesn't live in the future; she lives in the present. She's real. She walks, she talks, she steals, she sneezes. Why would she feel any guilt for an infinite number of possible pasts? Do you ever feel guilty about living in a world where Napoleon changed the world rather than dying young?
OK, "begging" might be overstating it a bit; but still -
MEL: Can you swear my world won’t mist out if you leave? My best bonds? My sister? BUFFY: It’s called the fate of the world, *short view*.
Telling someone that their entire existence is irrelevant to the fate of the world, and that fighting for it earns them the title of "short view", is pretty cold. I understand Buffy's position here, I really do; she's desperate to get back to her own world and set right what's gone wrong; but it still says a lot about where she's at right now that she doesn't even care about Fray. It's not a pleasant choice Buffy has to make, but she *does* have a choice; Fray hardly does.
That’s why Buffy’s question is “Why does it have to be me?”
And nobody ever says it does. Willow may want Buffy to kill her; nothing says Buffy has to.
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Date: 2008-11-29 12:08 pm (UTC)Of course not. I don't think a quantum physicist could either.
Fray’s world and everyone in it, by clinging to their own existence, wipe out that alternate future and all the people in that.
Except from Fray's perspective, she doesn't live in the future; she lives in the present. She's real. She walks, she talks, she steals, she sneezes. Why would she feel any guilt for an infinite number of possible pasts? Do you ever feel guilty about living in a world where Napoleon changed the world rather than dying young?
OK, "begging" might be overstating it a bit; but still -
MEL: Can you swear my world won’t mist out if you leave? My best bonds? My sister?
BUFFY: It’s called the fate of the world, *short view*.
Telling someone that their entire existence is irrelevant to the fate of the world, and that fighting for it earns them the title of "short view", is pretty cold. I understand Buffy's position here, I really do; she's desperate to get back to her own world and set right what's gone wrong; but it still says a lot about where she's at right now that she doesn't even care about Fray. It's not a pleasant choice Buffy has to make, but she *does* have a choice; Fray hardly does.
That’s why Buffy’s question is “Why does it have to be me?”
And nobody ever says it does. Willow may want Buffy to kill her; nothing says Buffy has to.