There's a precedent in genre convention for collected groups of zombie hunters lead (well, work with me here) by an intellectual European. Dracula had Van Helsing, Mina Harker and a group of adventurers chasing Dracula back to Transylvania. They, like the Scoobs, are considered without flaw within the novel and nobody knows what they're doing outside the group. I have no problem with that, as long as they stick with that. Thing is, they strayed in S7.
I've looked at S7 from the perspective of the First only becaue it takes that kind of work to understand what's going on. The 7.2 section works best when you remember that she slips easily between dream stage and awake stage, and that there's a lot of dreamlike imagery (the Giles that never touches anything, Xander sweeping in the background when she's talking to Joyce), so you read her (and presumably the Scoobs, although that's less clear) having a more and more tenuous connection to reality. So, you have to see things not from Buffy's view but the First's view in order to understand what's going on.
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Date: 2005-05-27 01:26 am (UTC)I've looked at S7 from the perspective of the First only becaue it takes that kind of work to understand what's going on. The 7.2 section works best when you remember that she slips easily between dream stage and awake stage, and that there's a lot of dreamlike imagery (the Giles that never touches anything, Xander sweeping in the background when she's talking to Joyce), so you read her (and presumably the Scoobs, although that's less clear) having a more and more tenuous connection to reality. So, you have to see things not from Buffy's view but the First's view in order to understand what's going on.