Oh yes it does (and you're using my AL icon you devil you know I'll agree to anything *lol*)
all were from her resurrection.
Gotcha. I'm not happy with the way the show seemed to deal with her depression near the end of S6 "Buffy just needs to get over herself, pull herself up by her bootstraps and look after Dawn and oh by the way Giles was right." Um, no - she needs stability and an emotional and financial support system, a therapist and possibily meds.(And hugs and tea and cake and hot soup and daily naps.) waking up in her own coffin is one of the most horrifying things I've ever witnessed on tv, and then being so terribly alone afterwards. Joyce may not have been in the show much but her absence is so painfully felt (and this is where I cue up my rant about Giles. You know the tune, right?)
It brings up the issues of all the burdens Buffy bears and the weight of it (which is a metaphor for the burdens women bear generally in the world) but then retreats back in to the modern notion of "rugged individualism" perhaps without being aware of it. Am I making any sense here?
Although S7 actually reveals the lie behind that IMO esp in Selfless, CWDP, BoTN, EP - but then seems to reinforce it again.
and then after Chosen
The idea of the smile at the end is supposed to be that she's freed of the burden of being the ONE Girl in All the World (not that she necessarily has to give up slaying but that she has a choice now.) The direction Joss took the comics is - the exact opposite of that. There were so many interesting ways they could have gone.
(I haven't read the comics at all)
Every time I've tried I've given up - and needed to bleach my brain and my eyeballs. The Chain is said to be the only good thing about "season 8".
I don't consider them canon (Joss said he'd pitch the storyline of the comics out the window if he had a chance to do a Buffy reboot.) - friends don't let friends read the comics, not when they're so much good fanfiction about.
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all were from her resurrection.
Gotcha. I'm not happy with the way the show seemed to deal with her depression near the end of S6 "Buffy just needs to get over herself, pull herself up by her bootstraps and look after Dawn and oh by the way Giles was right." Um, no - she needs stability and an emotional and financial support system, a therapist and possibily meds.(And hugs and tea and cake and hot soup and daily naps.) waking up in her own coffin is one of the most horrifying things I've ever witnessed on tv, and then being so terribly alone afterwards. Joyce may not have been in the show much but her absence is so painfully felt (and this is where I cue up my rant about Giles. You know the tune, right?)
It brings up the issues of all the burdens Buffy bears and the weight of it (which is a metaphor for the burdens women bear generally in the world) but then retreats back in to the modern notion of "rugged individualism" perhaps without being aware of it. Am I making any sense here?
Although S7 actually reveals the lie behind that IMO esp in Selfless, CWDP, BoTN, EP - but then seems to reinforce it again.
and then after Chosen
The idea of the smile at the end is supposed to be that she's freed of the burden of being the ONE Girl in All the World (not that she necessarily has to give up slaying but that she has a choice now.) The direction Joss took the comics is - the exact opposite of that. There were so many interesting ways they could have gone.
(I haven't read the comics at all)
Every time I've tried I've given up - and needed to bleach my brain and my eyeballs. The Chain is said to be the only good thing about "season 8".
I don't consider them canon (Joss said he'd pitch the storyline of the comics out the window if he had a chance to do a Buffy reboot.) - friends don't let friends read the comics, not when they're so much good fanfiction about.