Monday's Buffy

[tigerlily]

 

That hospital scene reminds me: how come Drusilla didn’t know the curse would be tried again? Of course what happened to Miss Calendar should have put it into their heads that they might be attacked for trying it. So, why wouldn’t Drusilla see the same thing she saw before? Who decides what visions she gets?

 

Well, but Spike did try to tend the world in WML, and the Master too. Granted, these are all different ways of ending the world. The Master wanted to bring things to the Earth, and Spike was going to go around actually literally purifying humans off the face of the earth, while Angel is letting it get sucked into a different dimension, where who knows what exactly would happen except that it would be bad. Yeah, I know it can be fanwanked that Spike only wanted to end the world for Drusilla, but no matter what he was shown as wanting to do it with no compunction, so it can’t be that big a deal to him.

 

That is one confused man. He loves Willow now he’s got a caring stable relationship with Cordy, and up until at least BBB he was still interested in Buffy and would have been with her now if her feelings had been genuine.

 

Something people have debated about. I don’t blame Mrs. Summers. She’s in such a state that she’s even letting Spike sit in her house after he reminded her of his attempt to kill Buffy. I don’t blame Buffy either. She’s in disarray and has no time to deal with it. With what happens later, I don’t blame her for taking it seriously and leaving. She felt so isolated.

 

Giles. My other character I want to hug.

 

The one more thing she has to lose is herself or Angel?

 

Another much debated topic. I feel like they’re both having their last say, Willow with the soul and Xander with the killing. Only Xander gets his message through, and they both get what they want in a way.

 

I don’t think it was necessary to not tell Buffy. I don’t hold it against him, but I don’t agree. As per last episode, he thinks Buffy needs him to remind her of her duty, but she doesn’t. I wonder if anything would have gone differently, whether in the fight or in her leaving. I think not in the fight, no matter if she stalled, but perhaps her sense of isolation. Everyone who was able and chose to tell her wanted her to kill Angel, even her supportive Willow, she’d been carrying the burden of it herself already, trying the curse got her people hurt and killed (from her POV and I think from Xander’s), she’s lost her mom’s support, is expelled, and has to kill the version of Angel she said she’d run to in these sort of situations. Plus being wanted for murder.

 

The love theme returns to break my heart.

 

I feel like all the main players do something that doesn’t better the situation in this episode.

 

Buffy can do what she has to, push herself to the max, but everyone needs to fall apart and not do the smartest bestest problem-solving thing. So Buffy leaves.

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKNAhJS8b8E Vienna Teng - Hope on Fire