I finally got to read this one, and after the laugh over the 'She's calling me names,' there was pretty much nothing I liked about this one. And I really liked NFFY - it was dark, but that glimpse at the end that people could come together and make something better was brilliant (Joss's continuing idea of made 'family').
But you're right that F and G are completely unused as characters here. What was the 'Watcher gone bad' supposed to represent? A basic foil for Giles? Too basic. [Although I suppose we now know that Giles is the last member of the old Council alive.] Faith with the vampire that got away? Well, it needed to be her or Buffy for the 'I've killed hundreds since' thingy to work, but it would have been more meaningful if it had been something else - a Mayor flunky that she knowingly let go, for example.
We need an arc story, and we need one soon. It's hard to get anything decent done in a one-shot ('The Chain' being an exception).
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Date: 2009-04-05 03:21 pm (UTC)But you're right that F and G are completely unused as characters here. What was the 'Watcher gone bad' supposed to represent? A basic foil for Giles? Too basic. [Although I suppose we now know that Giles is the last member of the old Council alive.] Faith with the vampire that got away? Well, it needed to be her or Buffy for the 'I've killed hundreds since' thingy to work, but it would have been more meaningful if it had been something else - a Mayor flunky that she knowingly let go, for example.
We need an arc story, and we need one soon. It's hard to get anything decent done in a one-shot ('The Chain' being an exception).