39,327
edits
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Headscratchers/General: Difference between revisions
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Headscratchers/General (view source)
Revision as of 03:46, 10 April 2017
, 7 years agoupdate links
m (→Private Xander) |
(update links) |
||
| (2 intermediate revisions by one other user not shown) | |||
Line 4:
== [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Headscratchers|Click here]] to return to the main Headscratchers page. ==
For Headscratchers entries about vampire rules, [[
For Headscratchers entries about slayer rules, [[
----
Line 236:
In this troper's opinion, Season 6's main problem is that while any one or two of the things in it would have been worth exploring, doing them ''all at the same time'' led straight to [[Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy]]. Buffy has emotional problems from having been raised from the dead? Not only entirely sensible, but it would be a [[Plot Hole]] for her ''not'' to have something. Willow's getting on a power trip? Sure, they only foreshadowed that one as far back as season two. Buffy and Spike are falling into a destructive sadomasochistic relationship? Again, its not like they didn't set that up. Dawn turning into a bratty klepto? ... eh, I suppose. Tara getting killed? Tragic, and I'd really rather not, but people have died on this show before and their deaths and the grief-stricken reactions of those left behind have made for great drama on this show before. Doing all of this and more ''all in the same six month period''? At this point shit is just being piled on way too deeply, and the fact that any one of these things might be individually good by itself doesn't stop the combination of them all from turning into a giant glurgey mess.
* Season 7, on the other hand, had a much simpler problem -- the jerkass hypocrisy outbreak on the part of, well, pretty much everyone.
** Also that the master villain is so poorly defined that we still have no idea how Buffy actually defeated it. I mean, it basically just up and ran away during the middle of the final battle for no visible reason other than 'Buffy had just made a Resolve Face'.
== Angel and Angelus--Which When? ==
Line 369 ⟶ 370:
*** "Willow sleeping with Kennedy had no negative consequences ([[Take That|other than]] [[Creator's Pet|Kennedy]] being there)." Kennedy being there is a '''huge''' negative consequence.
*** Above troper is on the ball. Really, the show doesn't have a problem with sex. It sometimes explores problems (plural) that are ''related'' to sex, but those are specific: "Surprise" is about sleeping with someone and then realizing they weren't who you thought they were. "Smashed" and "Wrecked" use violent sex as visual metaphor for a mutually destructive relationship. "Seeing Red" includes the fallout from Anya and Spike's tryst, which is treated as an affair since both were emotionally commited elsewhere. "Where The Wild Things Are" is actually about the consequences of sexual ''repression''. The only general take the show seems to have on sex is that it can make easy things complicated, which makes perfect sense given that this is a series about coming of age. (Also, in Buffyland, it's impossible for anything to be shown as complicated or serious without a body count ensuing, so please keep this in mind and adjust the consequences of people's actions accordingly.)
**** In my opinion, treating "Seeing Red" as an affair was hypocritical on both Buffy and Xander's parts. Sure, Anya and Spike were still 'emotionally committed elsewhere'. They were also ''broken up with''. Their prior relationships were explicitly declared to be over, and in both instances said breakup was by decision of the person allegedly being cheated on! Sure, seeing your ex with your best friend's ex is hardly going to be a fun time for you, but that still doesn't mean you're entitled to bitch about it (at least not to ''them''). You chose to break up with them, they're a free agent at that point.
== Ineffectual Villains ==
Line 394 ⟶ 395:
*** Because he didn't want to kill Buffy so much as he wanted to be a comic-book supervillain. That meant coming up with whacky schemes, and never repeating yourself. He'd done robots; he wasn't going to show such unoriginality as to try that again.
*** Just like Adam, he didn't actually WANT to kill her. His plan wasn't "Kill Buffy". The only times Warren targeted Buffy, it was either, "Long as the situation's optimal, might as well let her die," like the invisibility ray, or targeting Buffy was just part of a different objective, like sending the demon after her to get it out of his hair, or framing her for Katrina's murder so he wouldn't be a suspect. Until he walked into her yard with a gun out of anger and desperation, he wasn't explicitly TRYING to kill her.
*** Willow could wipe out an army of Buffybots all day every day. Warren was the technology arm of the Trio's technology, demonology, and sorcery trifecta; Willow had all three.
**** Have a Xanderbot knock on her front door. 'Hey, Willow, I need to talk to you for a second.' Remotely detonate Xanderbot's Semtex vest the instant Willow opens the door. Done.
** Darth Willow: Your lover's dead and you've become an [[Ax Crazy]] über-witch on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]. You want to kill everything and everyone and then, you don't, thanks to the [[Power of Friendship]]. Actually, this makes the most sense: rage can make people do stupid things, love too, so the love-induced wrath of a powerful witch oughta be devastating, and it's not uncommon to calm down and realise you can think things over.
Line 468 ⟶ 469:
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Headscratchers]]
__NOTOC__
[[Category:Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Headscratchers]]
[[Category:{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]
| |||