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Hey,
You know, i've kind of kept myself from the Buffy
discussions for awhile, mostly because I no longer think i have the abilityto
properly analize the show without making it a "that's the way I see thing" type
of review,(i've become extremelly anal as the years
pass... weird...)but i've read a few posts, mainly the two that i believe
are the two most antagonic views on the show so far : Dan and Kimber's... As i
read them i had a hard time trying not to make a few observations on each ,but
as i read yours i just had to speak up...Now, before anything, know that this is
my opinion and my opinion alone...It's not based on what Joss intended for the
show, or how the show is, but MY view on the particular subject(s)...Also, Tara
fans may not like what they read, so if you want turn back now...
First, the Willow-Giles stuff...You know, I love
Willow...She is , without a doubt, one of my fav tv shows characters...Now,i
know that season six did horrors to the character but i still love
Willow...Of course i prefer the normal , non-addicted Willow, but if broodyor
veiny is all i'm getting , so be it, i fell in love with her from the startand
i'll love her til the end, despite the bumps on the road, but that doesn't mean
that i won't be critical when it comes to her...And that is one of the reasons i
just can't seem to agree with you...The only person that can be held responsible
for Willow's attitudes is WIllow herself...Surely WIllow could have used Giles
guidance, but i don't actually remember her asking for it in any way, in fact,
the whole Willow-Magic thing started kicking off in the fourth season, and if i
remember correctly this was the one where they lived their college lives and
forgot about the watcher guy, so for him to to guide her would be kind of
hard...And of course, later on Willow had her orgasmic magic lover, so where
Giles would fit i don't quite understand...If i wanted to blame a third
party for the point that Willow got( and i'll admit that sometimes i do) i would
blame the saint , pure, superior Tara...Wasn't she the one who was with Willow
in the whole magic thing, who spent almost two seasons boosting Willow's ego and
braging about her lover's super powers to everyone who would hear and helping
her float roses and stuff...If Tara really wanted to serve as a guide for Willow
or her intention was only get the redhead into bed are past the point , butthe
truth of the matter is, Tara spent so much time sucking up to Willow
that when she finally woke up the student had passed the teacher, and when
she tried to put a limit to it...well, it was already too
late....Or anybody really thinks that the first time that WIllow did a
party decoration kind of spell...Quite frankly, from what i saw about that
relationship prior to that moment i had the impression that spells like that
were quite normal for the couple...I got the impression that around that
time Tara let aside her "i'll let her do everything she wants and maybe she'll
like me even more " posture and started to realize that it was consuming Willow
even more...And even then, instead of trying to help her get back on the track (
thus proving she's an awful ex) she just left Will to get better by herself
....I mean, breaking things off and parting ways for a small time it's okay, but
she all but abandoned Willow and only came backe when she was "aparently"
cured...Well, i said i only blamed Will, but looking back on what i just
wrote i guess that's not entirely true...I guess i'm still a little bitter,
because people just seem to think of Tara as this noble great victim
in this whole situation, it's almost as if she is a saint after season 6....Or
maybe it's because i saw Fear Itself and i remembered a great O/W moment or
maybe, just maybe, i was never a fan of the character to begin with, it
doesn't realy matter....What i'm trying to say is, if I wanted to blame
anyone oher that Wills for the getting out of control stuff it
certainly wouldn't be Giles....
Well, that is what I think about this
particular point...Of course, now that I opened pandora's box i'll probablyend
up comenting a few more things...Like Season six : sucked beyond belief or it is
all part of a greater plan...I'll admit beforehand that i tend to lean towards
Dan's way of thinking, mainly because he can reason without making it seem it's
because of one thing in particular, and it's quite good to see that, since most
of the reasons people use to justify his / hers dislike towards season six is
based on it being the season Tara died , Spike tried to rape Buffy or WIllow
went evil, as if the lack of consistency and the betrayal of principles
presented on the show and the degradation of certain characters weren't there
prior to these events....But I won't get into this now...I'm off to check the
results for the ellection...Um, to think my next president will be a guy that
can hardly speak portuguese, let alone a second language or the one that says he
is going , in four years,to fix everything his mentor did wrong in
eight...
Well, that was it...Okay, there is something
else....The amount of mention to B/D recentely is Scary, at least to me....Maybe
it's because i can't think of Buffy as anything other than a mother or a sister
to her and that's like incest, but if you can...well, i want to say good for
you, but i can't either, so .... Anyway, the reason behind this is to say that
if you want to talk about Dawn and Buffy make the perfect pair, or write a
fic about them, please do, but just , please DON'T do it here...I know thatwe
are very tolerant about other ships here ( within reason, of course) but
this is one i REALLY wouldn't like to see here...I know i'm probably
letting my personal opinion(although, i can also say i loath F/B and T/W
and even so i allowed them here, so it's not really about that) let onthe
middle of the list issues, but i know for a fact that i'm not the one who's
not comfortable with this, so.... Plus, it's
a B/W list, so it wouldn't be so hard to do....
¨That was it....
I'm off now...
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