(simply "getting over herself" is not sufficient to solve her underlying issues)
Yes. One of the things I like best about the way Buffy (the character) is written is that her depression is not just a temporary plot device: Buffy has the blues, Buffy pulls up her bootstraps and gets over it.
Instead, it's an integral part of her personality that she has to deal with long-term. And sometimes she doesn't deal with it very well, while sometimes she does. And even though she has a LOT to be depressed about, the dreadful events of her life are not the sole cause of her depression: it's a part of her, and something to be handled along with and simultaneously with the annual apocalypse.
I also like the way Buffy's family: biological, chosen and mystically created, makes her unique among Slayers. Isn't there a moment on AtS where someone points out to Angel that if he stops caring about particular humans he'll lose his reasons for saving humanity in general? We see what would happen to a Buffy divorced from family in The Wish. Even when one is called to general heroism, it's the particular bonds that provide the reasons.
Have you seen Mark Fields' meta? I think of him as the Other Mark - he doesn't seem to be as well-known as MarkWatches. I think you'd enjoy MF.
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Yes. One of the things I like best about the way Buffy (the character) is written is that her depression is not just a temporary plot device: Buffy has the blues, Buffy pulls up her bootstraps and gets over it.
Instead, it's an integral part of her personality that she has to deal with long-term. And sometimes she doesn't deal with it very well, while sometimes she does. And even though she has a LOT to be depressed about, the dreadful events of her life are not the sole cause of her depression: it's a part of her, and something to be handled along with and simultaneously with the annual apocalypse.
I also like the way Buffy's family: biological, chosen and mystically created, makes her unique among Slayers. Isn't there a moment on AtS where someone points out to Angel that if he stops caring about particular humans he'll lose his reasons for saving humanity in general? We see what would happen to a Buffy divorced from family in The Wish. Even when one is called to general heroism, it's the particular bonds that provide the reasons.
Have you seen Mark Fields' meta? I think of him as the Other Mark - he doesn't seem to be as well-known as MarkWatches. I think you'd enjoy MF.
Looking forward to your next meta!