Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 3x3 Full Reaction
Added 2023-11-04 02:46:37 +0000 UTC
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As others have pointed out the "spell" that Giles needed to do was to try to get Buffy to open up about the circumstances of Angel's death. Specifically you'll notice that each time the he brings it up at at first she tries to wisecrack/easy breezy her way through the exact particulars of Angel's death and then deflects her way out of the conversation. I suspect that Giles may have picked up on the cope, not just those exact statements but her desire to get back to a normal life, as she puts it, as a way to not deal with the traumatic events of what happened. I think what happens often with the reactions of the gang to the what Buffy has gone through is a result of the writers trying to illustrate how alone and different Buffy feels. Since that's been a major theme since we've started we have to have something to measure it against in the reactions of Buffy's friends and families. It always feels cold to us because we tend to view things through the eyes of our main protagonist but I suspect that's what it's there for, to help drive home for us this sense that the life of the Slayer is so much more difficult. In essence we are indeed supposed to be a little annoyed with the gang for talking about Buffy and Angel's history the way they did with Faith or how they reacted in Dead Man's Party, to help us identify that much more strongly with Buffy and her sense of responsibility and loneliness.
Absolute0
2023-11-07 01:43:06 +0000 UTCA couple of light-hearted comments. The wardrobe, the choices made for Buffy, and in some extent for Cordelia, are a bit all over the place this season, and mostly not in a good way. Especially when you see her in this ensemble of fluffy cardigans, bland skirts, flowery hair clips, not to mention the stupid little bags that they put in her hands sometimes, she reminds me of an English working class girl from the 1950s. I know, it's oddly specific, but I can't avoid it, I find it weird, but above all I think it doesn't suit the character. Maybe they wanted to symbolize her desire to feel like a girly girl, I don't know, but whatever. First, I believe that with Buffy we are already over this kind of issues at this point, second, I doubt that even a girly girl in 1999 would have dressed that way though. With the arrival of Faith, Sarah Michelle Gellar for the first time is no longer the youngest in the main cast, Eliza Dushku is in fact three years younger than Sarah. Ok, she is not technically in the main cast because she is not in the title cards, but that it's just a budget decision more than anything else, Joyce is still not in the main credits after three seasons but I still count her as part of the main cast. How and why Angel returned, and why in that specific moment? Dramatic timing? Maybe, it's a tv show after all. But you're actually free to give your own interpretation because, like I said, they never defined any rule for magic. Final note, keep in mind that whenever they refer to hell they do in a figurative way of speech, they never talk about hell, or heaven, as described in christian tradition. Does even exist an afterlife in Buffy's universe? Maybe, in some form, but it's unclear, than add magic in the mix and everything become even more murky. Do you remember in the previous season how they said that the orb was used to summon a soul form the ether, whatever that is? The show actually tends to stay away from any religious reference, of any religion. A smart move, in my opinion, which allows, first, to avoid unnecessary controversies, and second to more easily stay away from falling into to many clichés with the story. Okay, there is the cross, but that it's more of a narrative trick than anything, a way to give characters, other than Buffy, a fighting chance in dangerous situations.
G.Un.
2023-11-06 02:20:55 +0000 UTC
