I always found the role of Slayer rather disheartening in and of itself. Exactly and the whole season is a long hard critique of why the whole one hero thing doesn’t ultimately work. You see what it does to Buffy, to Nikki Wood, to that girl whoever she was before she was the first Slayer, to the all the SiTs doomed to unfulfilled potential. It’s amazing that she (they) accept the burden in isolation, it’s bloody brilliant when she sees the way to render that no longer necessary and sets them all free.
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Date: 2005-05-25 05:37 pm (UTC)Exactly and the whole season is a long hard critique of why the whole one hero thing doesn’t ultimately work. You see what it does to Buffy, to Nikki Wood, to that girl whoever she was before she was the first Slayer, to the all the SiTs doomed to unfulfilled potential. It’s amazing that she (they) accept the burden in isolation, it’s bloody brilliant when she sees the way to render that no longer necessary and sets them all free.
And everyone else helped too.