the underlying issue she's working through may be more general, the overreadiness to take on the guilt, the darkness that she and Xander were talking about just before the dream cut in
Yeah, I don't know if you saw the ETA in my post. After I read through other reviews which all seemed to be focusing on the ship issues (or who Amy's boyfriend is, the consensus focusing on Adam) it still surprised me no one was speculating about the misdirect. My own take is that the person to bring her out of the spell will be Dawn. Not only is Dawn going to be a main character in the last issue of this first arc, but it seems much more like Joss to eschew the romantic for the familial which is really where his interests lie. Plus, as you point out at the beginning of her dream it is Dawn she is concerned about, Dawn she feels guilty about, Dawn she needs to be reconciled with.
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Yeah, I don't know if you saw the ETA in my post. After I read through other reviews which all seemed to be focusing on the ship issues (or who Amy's boyfriend is, the consensus focusing on Adam) it still surprised me no one was speculating about the misdirect. My own take is that the person to bring her out of the spell will be Dawn. Not only is Dawn going to be a main character in the last issue of this first arc, but it seems much more like Joss to eschew the romantic for the familial which is really where his interests lie. Plus, as you point out at the beginning of her dream it is Dawn she is concerned about, Dawn she feels guilty about, Dawn she needs to be reconciled with.