Oh hey hon! I didn't know you had an LJ, welcome to my little parlour. I keep forgetting that Buffyworld also lists the su_herald links. Nifty. Anyhow, you gave me an excuse to revisit "Pen and Paper" (not that an excuse is really needed.)
Anyway YESSS THIS PARALLEL also BUFFY MY BABY
I got your back! ;) I was rewatching School Hard a few months back after I'd finished the series and that moment with Joyce in the axe just pops. I love the show for that so much, there's always new things to find.
and that it was part of those things she really didn't want to engage with at the point but also knew, deep inside, she'd better deal with. In Bring on the Night, though? She knows. She's lived on the hellmouth for six/seven years and she knows exactly what that means.
Yes, very well-said.
She also knows she's only now going to face it head-on, instead of just the ripples it makes in her environment.
Do you mean in terms of facing herself specifically in the form of the First, rather than a monster outside herself? I mostly agree, except that I don't know if she quite knows that yet entirely. She's not ready YET, but she has to convince everybody else that she is, and maybe she believes it herself. This marks the moment in S7 when she digs her heels in and becomes more inflexible. But she's just heard Giles say that Buffy was their only "plan", they had no other. She has to do it because there is no one else. That's been the point of the entire series. So she does what she always does - her duty. Just like back in Prophecy Girl, walking to certain death. But now she has less emotional resources to draw upon physically and mentally.
There's a contrast between this speech "We just became an army"; she's speaking for everyone, giving a command, trying to rouse and motivate the troops so to speak; and Chosen's "Are you ready to be strong?" laying out her case to everyone and giving them to option to participate or not; she's already told Spike "we're going to win".
I'll probably do another post on this because - gah. I'm really becoming very fond of S7, and I love all the parallels across the seasons. I love the contrast with this s
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Date: 2013-04-22 12:22 am (UTC)Anyway YESSS THIS PARALLEL also BUFFY MY BABY
I got your back! ;) I was rewatching School Hard a few months back after I'd finished the series and that moment with Joyce in the axe just pops. I love the show for that so much, there's always new things to find.
and that it was part of those things she really didn't want to engage with at the point but also knew, deep inside, she'd better deal with. In Bring on the Night, though? She knows. She's lived on the hellmouth for six/seven years and she knows exactly what that means.
Yes, very well-said.
She also knows she's only now going to face it head-on, instead of just the ripples it makes in her environment.
Do you mean in terms of facing herself specifically in the form of the First, rather than a monster outside herself? I mostly agree, except that I don't know if she quite knows that yet entirely. She's not ready YET, but she has to convince everybody else that she is, and maybe she believes it herself. This marks the moment in S7 when she digs her heels in and becomes more inflexible. But she's just heard Giles say that Buffy was their only "plan", they had no other. She has to do it because there is no one else. That's been the point of the entire series. So she does what she always does - her duty. Just like back in Prophecy Girl, walking to certain death. But now she has less emotional resources to draw upon physically and mentally.
There's a contrast between this speech "We just became an army"; she's speaking for everyone, giving a command, trying to rouse and motivate the troops so to speak; and Chosen's "Are you ready to be strong?" laying out her case to everyone and giving them to option to participate or not; she's already told Spike "we're going to win".
I'll probably do another post on this because - gah. I'm really becoming very fond of S7, and I love all the parallels across the seasons. I love the contrast with this s
May I friend you, btw?