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For MY BTVS Fans - Some Ponderables

Submitted by RED SHIRT on May 12, 2010 - 5:01am

I am currently towards the end of a marathon of Seasons, 5, 6, and 7, and am 2 episodes into Season 7.  There are some things in my mind that have never really added up.  Maybe you could shed some light on them for me or come up with theories that resemble insane troll logic.

1. If Willow was such a bad-ass with the magics, why didn't she just whip up a healthy bank account so that Buffy could pay her bills?  Or why weren't she and Tara contributing their fair share the old-fashioned way?

2. Seriously, Spike didn't go to Africa with the intention of getting his soul, right?  The demon paid a funny trick on him, yes?  If we're going with choice B, then why does insane Spike in "Beneath You" come off all, "I went and got this soul for you, Buffy"?

3. Are those hair extensions Sarah Michelle was wearing at the beginning of Season 7?  Because there is NO natural way I know of that would have made her hair grow that much between season filmings.

4. And this one may be a tough one, Why doesn't Emma Caufield get more acting jobs?  She great with the funny.

 

Go ahead.  Ponder away.

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Season 7

Submitted by John S. Drew on May 12, 2010 - 6:51am.

Your questions point out the serious flaws with both seasons 6 and 7.  Buffy should have ended with season 5 and her death.  I think that's why I had such a problem with the Buffy comic book you let me read.  It continues the whole we're big and bad and big and bad things happen to us and we fight against it, but it just seems so tiresome.  That was my problem with Angel when we got to the end of the run.  There was nothing noble or heroic about either series and that's a turnoff to me as a viewer.

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John
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Flawed, Yes...

Submitted by Judith Furnari (not verified) on May 12, 2010 - 5:25pm.

but not noble?  I think not.  There is nobility in Buffy's struggle to realize that running away from one's life and just doing what's pleasurable is not life at all.  She comes out better for it and actually forages a relationship with Dawn.  There is nobility in Spike's realization in Season 7 that real love has nothing to do with sex.  His death to save the world, despite his own probable damnation for the many people he killed, is tear-jerking.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

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