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snick_backupNow in the middle of S3 with the housemate. A burning question, and one thinkier topic:
1. Why does Anya give her power center thingy to Cordelia at the beginning of "The Wish"?
2. Once Giles gets it off Cordelia's corpse, HOW DOES ANYA GET IT BACK?
3. So, Faith. I've been watching things very carefully this time, trying to spot just where the Faith/Scooby relations soured. Certainly "Revelations" was key, although I can't quite put my finger on why - was Faith really that peeved about being left out of a completely inappropriate and mishandled 'intervention' in Buffy's personal life? Does she really feel that threatened by Angel? Does she have a phobia of people keeping secrets, even if they're secrets that don't have anything directly to do with her?
Or is it Gwendolyn Post's betrayal that Faith's really upset over, as Buffy seems to think at the end of the ep when she brings it up?
Anyway, Faith still bothered to come to the Summers' for Christmas in "Amends," and later on there's "Bad Girls"/"Consequences", so clearly not all friendliness is gone yet.
4. I'd forgotten what a bore Angel is in "Amends." Redemption arc, bleah. Whatever.
And the First, too - which I'd find totally terrifying if only there was some kind of metaphysical basis for it at all. Buffy's quite right in being so flip about the fact that it's evil, because in the Buffyverse, 'evil' doesn't mean anything in particular, other than a collection of actions that most humans (not even sentient beings, just humans) find unpleasant and distasteful. It's not like there's any spiritual reality at stake.
My issues with Buffyverse metaphysics, let me show you them.
1. Why does Anya give her power center thingy to Cordelia at the beginning of "The Wish"?
2. Once Giles gets it off Cordelia's corpse, HOW DOES ANYA GET IT BACK?
3. So, Faith. I've been watching things very carefully this time, trying to spot just where the Faith/Scooby relations soured. Certainly "Revelations" was key, although I can't quite put my finger on why - was Faith really that peeved about being left out of a completely inappropriate and mishandled 'intervention' in Buffy's personal life? Does she really feel that threatened by Angel? Does she have a phobia of people keeping secrets, even if they're secrets that don't have anything directly to do with her?
Or is it Gwendolyn Post's betrayal that Faith's really upset over, as Buffy seems to think at the end of the ep when she brings it up?
Anyway, Faith still bothered to come to the Summers' for Christmas in "Amends," and later on there's "Bad Girls"/"Consequences", so clearly not all friendliness is gone yet.
4. I'd forgotten what a bore Angel is in "Amends." Redemption arc, bleah. Whatever.
And the First, too - which I'd find totally terrifying if only there was some kind of metaphysical basis for it at all. Buffy's quite right in being so flip about the fact that it's evil, because in the Buffyverse, 'evil' doesn't mean anything in particular, other than a collection of actions that most humans (not even sentient beings, just humans) find unpleasant and distasteful. It's not like there's any spiritual reality at stake.
My issues with Buffyverse metaphysics, let me show you them.
