You aren't the only one. If Buffy needs anything, it's alone time.
llus there's the fact that Buffy actually needs to learn something from these four years long series of bad decisions.
This is very much why it won't work. Why it's an impossibility. How exactly do you learn from something that you knew was wrong when you did it? All we're shown is that Buffy is out of character--and we're deliberately shown she's out of character, no question. The usually even have another character there to show how real!Buffy would act (Mel in ToYL, for instance). Unless we get a reason, and at this point it almost has to be mystical of origin, all you can ever have is an unreliable hypocrite character. "You can't defeat evil by doing evil" *attempts to do evil to do good* "Whoops! Guess I was right!" That's all you end up with.
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Date: 2010-12-06 05:59 am (UTC)You aren't the only one. If Buffy needs anything, it's alone time.
llus there's the fact that Buffy actually needs to learn something from these four years long series of bad decisions.
This is very much why it won't work. Why it's an impossibility. How exactly do you learn from something that you knew was wrong when you did it? All we're shown is that Buffy is out of character--and we're deliberately shown she's out of character, no question. The usually even have another character there to show how real!Buffy would act (Mel in ToYL, for instance). Unless we get a reason, and at this point it almost has to be mystical of origin, all you can ever have is an unreliable hypocrite character. "You can't defeat evil by doing evil" *attempts to do evil to do good* "Whoops! Guess I was right!" That's all you end up with.