Yuppers, two same as Faith - which really took me by surprise I thought Faith would have a higher showing. (Everyone knows Buffy and Tara are my girls, but I hope I haven't been scaring fans of other ladies away? 'cause it's all good here. I'd love to get in touch with more Kennedy fans, for instance.)
And it got me thinking of someone we've forgotten about - Cassie Newton, the girl who knew she was going to die in S7. She was so interesting for a one-episode character
OMG I ALMOST included her! Because she is one of my favorite one-shot characters. And not for the reason she's a lot of other people's (because she says to Spike "One day she'll tell you" - I'm interested in the way Dawn and Buffy connect with her; it's really genuinely heartbreaking for all of them.
She's one of the few one-shot characters I still wish had been a reoccuring character, because she fits the themes of the season so beautifully. She's a "proto-potential", and who's to say that she wasn't a Potential who, like Buffy, slipped the WC's notice? Like Buffy, she has dreams of the future, visions - they're both "seers" (or Willow's unromantic "pre-cogs") although the term is rarely applied to Buffy.
There are only a few other such one-and-done characters I wish had stayed. Olivia is more of a three-shot but she counts; the female vampire in The Freshman was an awesome character and would have made a great "little bad" for the early season IMO.
But once I thought about Cassie, then there were other one-and-done characters like Sheila Rosenburg, Marcie in OOSOOM, poor Sheila in School Hard (the victim of Spike & Dru, kidnapped, tortured & terrorized, eaten & turned -and Joss's sexual hang-ups. I have WORDS about this.)
After a while it was just too much. *lol*
30 responses is no mean feat, Sweetie! Very exciting.
I think it's at 37 at this point, if I count the bottom question (which always seems to be one ahead of the top question. Somebody skipped #1.)
but it still obliterates my heart. So, herein lies the problem. Interesting, nonetheless.
And doesn't that pretty much sum up nearly every character in the Buffyverse, and the entire 'verse itself? Willow, for instance, is someone I still struggle with a LOT, and she was the first character I identified with. Finding the love after S6 has been hard. OTOH would I love Tara so much if she hadn't been killed off in such an awful way? And if we get to the men? Oh cheese on a cracker....
This is the stuff that's kept people talking and this fandom alive for over ten years after Chosen.
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Date: 2014-02-12 12:46 am (UTC)And it got me thinking of someone we've forgotten about - Cassie Newton, the girl who knew she was going to die in S7. She was so interesting for a one-episode character
OMG I ALMOST included her! Because she is one of my favorite one-shot characters. And not for the reason she's a lot of other people's (because she says to Spike "One day she'll tell you" - I'm interested in the way Dawn and Buffy connect with her; it's really genuinely heartbreaking for all of them.
She's one of the few one-shot characters I still wish had been a reoccuring character, because she fits the themes of the season so beautifully. She's a "proto-potential", and who's to say that she wasn't a Potential who, like Buffy, slipped the WC's notice? Like Buffy, she has dreams of the future, visions - they're both "seers" (or Willow's unromantic "pre-cogs") although the term is rarely applied to Buffy.
There are only a few other such one-and-done characters I wish had stayed. Olivia is more of a three-shot but she counts; the female vampire in The Freshman was an awesome character and would have made a great "little bad" for the early season IMO.
But once I thought about Cassie, then there were other one-and-done characters like Sheila Rosenburg, Marcie in OOSOOM, poor Sheila in School Hard (the victim of Spike & Dru, kidnapped, tortured & terrorized, eaten & turned -and Joss's sexual hang-ups. I have WORDS about this.)
After a while it was just too much. *lol*
30 responses is no mean feat, Sweetie! Very exciting.
I think it's at 37 at this point, if I count the bottom question (which always seems to be one ahead of the top question. Somebody skipped #1.)
but it still obliterates my heart. So, herein lies the problem. Interesting, nonetheless.
And doesn't that pretty much sum up nearly every character in the Buffyverse, and the entire 'verse itself? Willow, for instance, is someone I still struggle with a LOT, and she was the first character I identified with. Finding the love after S6 has been hard. OTOH would I love Tara so much if she hadn't been killed off in such an awful way? And if we get to the men? Oh cheese on a cracker....
This is the stuff that's kept people talking and this fandom alive for over ten years after Chosen.