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| My thoughts on the subject of Buffy & Angel |
Long Discussion about Finale theories ("Forever" & "Disharmony" comments below) The question that keeps itching me is: why Faith? Why does Faith have all this subconscious knowledge about Dawn. Why is she involved in this matter at all? Faith won't even be there when it goes down. But it's not Faith, herself, but what she is that makes her involved. The way I figure it, being a killer, being that strong, primal thing that is at the source of the slayer, makes the slayer strong. Faith, when she was in the coma, in all her dreams she was a good force. She was her human self- her physical, her primal, dormant. But then Buffy, her physical not dormant, the slayer in her alive and strong, comes along & kills the Mayor (in her dream) & goes after her. Faith runs, she doesn't want to fight. Or maybe, possibly more accurately, she doesn't know how. She's just human Faith. They fall in the grave together. A fight ensues and Faith comes out the winner. A killer. The strong one. The primal force. & she awakens from the coma. What made it happen? Just that for the first time since she'd been in that coma, her primal self appeared, reigned. & once that happened she was strong enough to wake up. So this is what I'm thinking. In order to fight Glory, Buffy will have to get in touch with the source. The First Slayer. The Primitive, as Joss calls her. Buffy will have to become what is at the heart of The Primitive, her Heart of Darkness, if you will. That same dark, frightening place that scared her so much when Dracula tried to take her there. She'll have to do it to save the world, assuming that's what the Key will end (which I very much suspect & if not our world, someone else's). But it's not just the world she's fighting for, it's also her sister. Her little baby sister that she's not only fated to protect, but bound to by a promise made to her now dead mother. Not to mention that Dawn is the last of Buffy's family, her, ironically put, real family. &, let's not forget, one important element to this. Not only is The Primitive a killer, and a scary place to be, but the thing that has kept Buffy alive longer than most slayers is that she's not in touch with that part of her identity. She's apart of life. Let's forget what we're looking at, someone already close to the edge, someone who has already lost her biggest tie to the world, someone who could very well lose her last tie to the world, her sister, to Glory or perhaps even to save the world. Let's just look at that the fact that when Buffy does become that killer, that primal, clay-on-the-face warrior (without all the heroic associations), she will be closer to death than she's ever been. This girl who's been drowned, staked, bitten and drained. Closer to death than she's ever been. I think it's going to play out like this. Dawn will be used as The Key. Buffy's going to have to destroy Dawn in order to stop it all. Buffy's going to have to destroy, kill (It doesn't matter much how you start out) Dawn, and she'll save the world (you know I'm hesitant to say 'save the world'), but she'll be killing that last part of her that's human. She'll be so far gone to get into the state of being able to fight Glory, & then, there'll be that last little push into darkness. But, then, there's the whole Xander 'Big Brother' thing, which I can't make fit right. Anyway. I like my idea. I always thought Joss thought up the season 3 Faith concept of going bad thinking about Angel ideas. Nope. He's been planning this for so long. Faith, the abomination the Scooby Gang grew to hate, is what a slayer truly is. I don't buy that 730 is 2 years. I could be wrong. I have a dim memory of reading an interview that a Buffy writer gave that said it was 2 years, but I could have dreamed that- anyway, I'm not sure. This is the thing, why would the clock in "Restless" say 7:30, when, by that time, it was 365. I mean, the whole dream was weird. It'd certainly fit into the episode for a clock to say 3:65 (guys that are lost, normal clocks don't go past :59). It could have just been a remembrance of that dream in "GD2", a remembrance for both the audience and Buffy, but, I don't know. 2000 was a leap year. 2 years would be 731. & did anyone notice that the finale airs on 5-22, & it's the 5th season, 22cd episode. Do you think that's entirely a mistake or just a little planned? I mean, Joss would probably know what day it would air. If it were the 2 years, it's conceivable that it'd be more likely to be the exact days, I think, technically, from the date GD2 was SUPPOSED to air, it's 734. But, hey, it's probably 2 years. Marti Noxon said to Cinescape magazine that this 100th episode has been led to for a long time, but when it happens, all will be revealed. All. So, one day we'll know. Buffy could say something like: "730. 2 years from the day Faith got in the coma", but that event's unrelated, in almost every way, to what's going on with Glory. Why would that be the point we start counting off from? Or is the slayer involved in more ways then we know about? Or perhaps some event happened at that time. Possibly related to season 3 events? Wouldn't that be a kicker? Maybe a result of an unbalance due to 2 slayers roaming the world at one time? Damnit! Just ascend already! Evil! You don't know how obsessed I'm getting with this whole trying to figure out stuff. It's so close & it's driving me crazy. & Ben. Glory's brother, is he? Ben who shares a Body with Glory. The minion said to Ben, put aside all grievances, your fate is directly linked to that of the magnificent Glorificus. When Ben saw that Knight of Byzantium, he was scared. Does that mean that The Key is about Glory's survival, & in turn, Ben's? Why else would he be scared, shocked, worried at the least. If Dawn is a key, pardon my pun, to Glory's survival, perhaps her continued reign as God of her dimension, then Ben, well, he'd be turning on Buffy pretty soon, wouldn't he? Finally, until I discuss the current week's episodes, I just wanted to comment that I think Joss has a chance to raise some really profound questions in this finally. What makes someone real? How do we know what's real & what isn't? If it's real to you, is it real? I sense a narrative by Buffy, possibly Xander, if the big brother thing turns out to be something huge. I'm nearly convinced Michelle Trachtenberg's gone after the finale. She's going to move on like Eliza, Seth, etc., I think they will kill Dawn, I think Buffy will have to kill Dawn. Of course that is a little second season Buffy-must-kill-Angel-or-the-world-will-be-sucked-into-hell, but, it's not like storylines haven't been repeated on the show before (a vampire in love with the slayer). Plus, I think what I've described, would be bigger than even "Becoming". But, I don't know. Maybe Buffy will think she'll have to kill Dawn. Then, she finds out about the primal power stuff, does that, killing a large part of her humanity, but then maybe at the last moment Dawn will die by someone else's hand- oh! maybe someone close, like Giles or Big Brother Xander thinking it hasn't gone down yet & that Dawn must die to save the world but that Buffy's too emotionally attached to do it. So then Dawn dies & Buffy sacrificed her humanity for nothing, & the whole dynamic of the Scooby Gang will change with that. Hell, maybe even primal Buffy will kill the person who kills Dawn if that happens. Wouldn't that be wild? Like Buffy kills Xander or Giles, just in like an instant swoop or something right at the end. Anyway, about the monologue thing. What if Dawn dies, & then no one remembers her except Buffy. That would be a great setup for the monologue I was talking about. 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Angel, "Disharmony" Ya know, I've been thinking about Lindsey & you know what? I want to see him get out of that world. He doesn't belong there. He's like Tony Soprano, well, not exactly. He wasn't born into it, but he was almost forced into it. No, not really. Well, he came from nothing. He built himself up & was recruited by a top lawfirm. He couldn't have known then what they did. It's like, Tom Cruise in The Firm. He didn't know. They just glided him to the truth once he was in there & then he couldn't get out because he know too much. You see, Lindsey's not like those around him. We see it in many ways. Him not playing the bullshit when the senior partner was coming, when someone had to pay from the massacre. & he can love. I figure, he loved more than anyone on 'Angel' did this season. More than Angel loved Darla. More than Darla loved Angel. He's capable of love, he is. & he's not in the same class as Lilah. "My mother was right, I should of had children" so I can offer them up as sacrifices to impress the boss. I want to see Lindsey get out. But how? Below, is a link to the site's posting board. Do you have something to add? Something to counter? I welcome your comments. | |||||||||
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