I think those fall stories are very hard sells with any character the audience has been tempted to identify with. No-one wants to believe they’re really that weak or that stupid and it’s not real life, the audience can always see the big picture. It probably worked reasonably well with Gunn in AtS because he’s always been marginal and the story wasn’t actually given that much screen time.
Personally I thought the GiD origin story was very powerfully done. I was trying to put myself in the heads of the people who hate it because, I suppose, of the implication that making a girl a superhero requires a violation of her (girly) nature. But although Buffy initially sees what the Shadowmen are doing as a violation, by the end when she asks them for knowledge she seems to have gained an understanding of why what they did might have been necessary, Which I love because it re-enactes the process she went through herself between WttH and Prophecy Girl.
And the S7 plot works fine if you just relax and don’t try overinterpretate the supernatural elements. Joyce’s warning to dawn isn’t a prophecy it’s a statement of Dawn’s fears. The Eye vist wasn’t providing a clue about how to defeat the First but an illustration of the futility of researching it.
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Date: 2005-05-25 04:53 pm (UTC)Personally I thought the GiD origin story was very powerfully done. I was trying to put myself in the heads of the people who hate it because, I suppose, of the implication that making a girl a superhero requires a violation of her (girly) nature. But although Buffy initially sees what the Shadowmen are doing as a violation, by the end when she asks them for knowledge she seems to have gained an understanding of why what they did might have been necessary, Which I love because it re-enactes the process she went through herself between WttH and Prophecy Girl.
And the S7 plot works fine if you just relax and don’t try overinterpretate the supernatural elements. Joyce’s warning to dawn isn’t a prophecy it’s a statement of Dawn’s fears. The Eye vist wasn’t providing a clue about how to defeat the First but an illustration of the futility of researching it.