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Post by SpringSummers on Feb 19, 2004 16:25:26 GMT -5
I also meant to say that I particularly liked the comparison between the number of God-references on this episode compared with earlier episodes. Thanks, Kerrie. I checked the other eps with the "finder" on the computer, just to make sure I wasn't imagining things with the deliberate use of the word "God." It's the kind of word that can very naturally be in a lot of dialogue, and I could easily imagine a reader of the analysis wondering the same thing, "Is this really significant? Lots of people use the word "god" when they talk . . ." So I thought I would share the figures on that. When my count reached to eleven -and it wasn't over 3 on the other eps - I knew I wasn't imagining things.
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Post by Kerrie on Feb 19, 2004 17:24:38 GMT -5
How true! The cereal prize and Willow playing God - and later this season we'll get a real God and Willow will try to go up against her. It's all here if we look for it. Lola Reminds me of Angel telling either Buffy or Faith that killing someone is a "God-like" thing to do. JW really does set it all up.
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Post by LadyDi on Feb 29, 2004 19:17:34 GMT -5
The connection btwn Buffy and GOoD for Spike - tests of faith, sacrifice(s) demanded, redemption. Explains seasons 6 & 7, I think.
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Post by SpringSummers on Feb 29, 2004 20:38:58 GMT -5
The connection btwn Buffy and GOoD for Spike - tests of faith, sacrifice(s) demanded, redemption. Explains seasons 6 & 7, I think. Yes - it's what I sometimes find so hard to explain when someone is asking me how I can say Buffy is "good"when she is so abusive to Spike in Season 6, etc. It's hard to explain what I'm getting at, without taking someone through the whole relationship, almost. You really have to watch it, from beginning to end, from Season 2 through 7, to truly understand it. And you have to watch it carefully. Buffy isn't always good, but she always represents Goodness. She definitely does to Spike, even when she is beating his face in. While he's soulless he can't really understand what is driving Buffy, but even so, he can see through to her core, to the goodness and life and light underneath. He himself doesn't understand his attraction to Buffy very clearly (he says it to Buffy in Crush, and tells Anya as much in Entropy). He can't understand. The guy is following his gut. But it is all about this stuff - that tiny light inside that's gotten a chance to flicker a bit, due to the chip - and led by that flickering light, he's being healed, drawn home to Goodness, to Love. It's why Spike is drawn to Buffy, it's why he follows her, even into hell. I am looking forward to plugging through Season 5, and really getting into the meat of the matter in 6.
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Post by penny on Mar 1, 2004 16:35:13 GMT -5
Another excellent analysis, again pointing out all these things that are so obvious...after you've pointed them out, that is.
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Post by SpringSummers on Mar 2, 2004 8:01:04 GMT -5
Another excellent analysis, again pointing out all these things that are so obvious...after you've pointed them out, that is. Thanks for the feedback, penny. I like hearing from you for the encouragement it gives, but also in part because I love seeing your Andrew avatar.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jan 26, 2005 17:52:00 GMT -5
“….. besides, isn’t this better than using a flashlight like some kind of doofus?”. Yeah, it’s funny ‘cuz we go right to a shot of Buffy with a flashlight, but how telling is it of later events with Willow? Considering that these scene segues usually have some kind of meaning behind them, I'm wondering whether this one is perhaps commentary on the building tension between Buffy and Willow as Willow gains more and more power. Sort of an underlying resentment Willow has towards Buffy for being recognized as the Hero while Willow is the "sidekick" despite having more bookish/academic smarts and having as much or more power.
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