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Buffy 4-15-03 (Follow the line of insanity of That's My Take posted 4-15-03). 7PM - "Dirty Girls" thoughts can be found below but I had a crazy theory today just hit me (note: follow it all the way down til the end of the Buffy section - huge revelations!) -follow my thought pattern to the big hits. Okay, first, when Faith woke from her coma of 8 months, she was dreaming that Buffy was chasing her with a knife. They had a brawl & Faith came out & woke up. A couple of weeks ago Faith woke up from a coma because instinctually she knew Angel was in trouble - what if that's why she woke the first time - because the world was in trouble from Buffy. Buffy and Faith have switched places. Faith turned around & Buffy's losing her humanity. In "Restless", Buffy found clay in a bag she said was weapons. The clay symbolized the primal. The primal was the weapon - & it felt good. Buffy rejected going back to the primal - but she's going to need it for the big fight. Watching "Restless" something hit me. What if the First actually is the slayer. In "Restless" Buffy finishes the riddle with "the slayer" & Tara says "the First". So, what if the slayer really is the First. What if the First Slayer was evil. What if it's like vampires - it mixed with human blood. What if the slayer mixed with human blood & became part human & decided to use that power for good. I've suggested that Buffy lost her humanity when she sacrificed herself for Dawn. Maybe she did & she doesn't know it. Or, even juicier, what if she didn't & her last link to humanity is still Dawn. What if Buffy has to kill Dawn, her humanity, in order to become purely a slayer & to fight. Buffy has already said if the whole thing was as simple as killing Dawn, she would do it. This hypothesis contradicts itself - because she'd be evil if she killed her humanity & she couldn't fight for good. What if they don't realize that before Buffy does it or what if they find a way for her to kill Dawn, regain the old power, & somehow still fight for good. Some might say that Faith lost her humanity a couple years ago, but she didn't, she was just ignoring it. I mean, we know Buffy is going to have to lose her humanity to fight the First. Oh - & the crazy thread of theories continues - what if Buffy regains the old powers knowing that it will sacrifice her humanity but doesn't realize that that will actually make her the First, that evil. So she regains the powers & then is evil for the very end. "Dirty Girls" - Oh, god! I hate this whole thing - I hate it being the end cause it means Joss is going to kill some of these characters that we've followed for years. God, when Caleb did that to Xander - god! & when he snapped the neck of the asian girl who didn't even talk cause no one understood her - oh my god. & when Caleb stabbed Annabelle. God. I need to calm down from this. I'm writing this only a few minutes after I first watched it. Okay... Um, about what I wrote above just before I saw the episode... that's the plan. The plan is to make Buffy dark - to "purify" her as Caleb said. I don't know why the guys, the spirit guys, wanted to do it to Buffy but I think she was right to refuse. I think it's like I said above - that First Slayer was just evil. The reason the slayers are scattered now is because they're so ancient - slayers are different races. Why they're not in the same family of blood - maybe it's like a gene that skips a generation. Or maybe it's grown more mystical now & only so many are able to be called even though the blood is scattered - maybe in everybody. But, here's the plan. Buffy's vulnerable now. She's been brought back to life - it is all 'cause she was brought back & maybe partly because she sacrificed perhaps some of her humanity for Dawn - she came back vulnerable - not the same - more demon. It's ripe for the First to act on it - do something to her. Caleb will be the one who does it. He'll make her all slayer. That's what he was talking about - he hates humans - he's not human anymore, obviously - he hates humans & he said that Buffy doesn't know the good that's coming. To him good for her is to lose her humanity, for him to purify her to full slayer. & the other thing he was saying at the end was about his next plan. The First can look like Buffy, so his next plan is to lure the girls to him with the First in Buffy's form 'cause "they follow her". See, the thing is - if they take out all the girls who can be slayers & then do this thing to Buffy - that's how the slayer's going to be. No more slayer that fights evil, the slayer will be evil. What I don't get is the First talking to Willow in Cassie's body in "Conversations with Dead People" & saying that It was done with the mortal coil. How will riding the world of slayers take out the world? Maybe Buffy will do it. & it's not going to be an appeal to humanity that will save the world, 'cause it's been done. Woe. This is intense. Four more episodes to go. We are in the 5-part finale, guys. Okay, I'm calming down... WAIT!!! I'm wrong. The slayer was a human. No, the spirit guys wanted to imbue her with a safer form of darkness. Caleb said Buffy was filled with darkness - meaning despair. What if the spirit guys imbued the slayer with pain. Buffy's spirit guide in the form of the First Slayer said that Buffy was full of love, that love was pain, & that the slayer forges strength from pain. What if that's how the slayer became what it was... the choice use of the word "darkness" when Dawn read how they made the slayer. Despair not evil. The spirit guys wanted to fill Buffy with the original powers of the slayer, that in purity & not lessened by time & thinning of blood, but The First & Caleb want to take her to a different dark place - that of evil. & she's vulnerable now because of Dawn - Buffy sacrificed part of her humanity for Dawn. It didn't take it all, obviously. But obviously, something's been lost. That's why she's vulnerable - the slayer is human with a human's ability to love & feel pain in its purest form - humanity gives the slayer it's power. Oh, god, all these crazy theories. Dracula said the slayer's pain was rooted in darkness though - like that it was all about the kill & I'm contradicting "Restless" now cause the First Slayer had no friends or humanity, she just killed. Okay, let's admit it - I'm at a standstill. But, the plan is definitely to kill all the potentials & Faith, for Buffy to be the last, & then to make her dark & evil - & I'm betting Buffy'll try to end the world because the First said early on this whole thing was about getting rid of the mortal coil. Wait, though, mortal coil. Not end the whole - end humans. There's something to this. God, if Joss ever visits this website, he's cracking up right now. But, it's all here - I have all the clues. 1) The slayer was a human filled with "darkness", "rooted in darkness", no humanity 2) Buffy, the slayer's strangest edition (I was going to say latest but we've got Faith & my word works best), has died twice - she was brought back to life by mystical means which did something weird to her. Willow never really finished. They thought it hadn't worked. From what's been said, the event of bringing her back is what's causing this now - the vulnerability in the slayer line. 3) Caleb wants to purify Buffy. Take her humanity away - & the First says it will end the "mortal coil" which is humans. I think that's a definite 'cause of how much Caleb hates humans. How will making the slayer evil end the mortal coil? How is that any different from what the First Slayer was? 4) The spirit guys who created the slayer wanted to imbue Buffy with power again - they have good motives. It was said in the story of the First Slayer. How did what the guys want to do to Buffy differ from what the First wants to do to Buffy? 5) Buffy's the hellmouth's last guardian. 6) Buffy is drawn to the darkness, to death - as are all slayers. It's their fascination. Their calling & their only relief from it. I'm going to stare at this until it makes sense. Okay, you take a girl & you make her a slayer. The story of how they made the slayer said the demons came first, then humans, then they took a girl & filled her with darkness so she could fight the demons. They said that, right? To protect the humans. So, the slayer was filled with darkness, rooted in evil (Dracula said it). Killing but not evil... killing for good? Maybe Dracula just knew the slayer was rooted in that killing instinct & that she's close to darkness. The First Slayer had to lose some of her humanity to become what she did. What's changed that a slayer would stay as human as Buffy? Maybe nothing. Maybe something & that's the missing piece of the puzzle. But Wood's mom was all about the kill too. So it's Buffy that's the difference - Buffy just so full of humanity & love. Then she lost some, when she came back from death. She's lost what has kept her alive this long - her ability to be so human & so full of love. Yet the spirit guys wanted to give Buffy the old powers back. & the First wants to purify Buffy to make her not human, completely dark. Where's the difference between what the First wants to do to Buffy & what the First Slayer was (what the spirit guys wanted to do)? Are these two different things we're talking about? 'Cause if they're not, nothing makes sense. Why would bringing Buffy back to the old, darker ways be bad. They can't be the same things 'cause the spirit guys want to protect humanity. I guess, what I'm really asking is how can "purifying" Buffy to lose her humanity, as Caleb & the First want, different from the spirit guys, who wanted to do good in purifying Buffy with old powers? Simple answer is that the slayer was filled with darkness like I said earlier - despair. How is being filled with despair not being filled with humanity? It has to be different because the First Slayer had so little humanity & ability to love. Maybe it's a fine line. Maybe the slayer always walks a fine line between good & evil. The slayer is the protector of humanity. Maybe the slayer is the thing that stands between humanity & demons. To take that out of the equation - to make the slayer an instrument of darkness while playing on that fine line. But Faith's been close to dark before... It's so confusing. You take the most powerful slayer in history maybe - Buffy. You kill all the other potentials so she is the last in the line. She's vulnerable to the attack because things have happened to her. You take the most powerful slayer who is also the most vulnerable & you make her evil & somehow that ends all humanity. I get nothing... You take a slayer who is not supposed to be a slayer. Buffy has got to be the first slayer in history to live out like this while the line isn't even in her. Think about it - the line's not in her anymore, it's been said. So we add to the list of clues: 7) Buffy's not supposed to be a slayer. The line should have passed to Kendra when she died (& then to Faith). Why is Buffy still chosen. Once you activate, it's forever? & who the hell activates these girls anyway? What if Buffy is not the slayer. She's not. The line doesn't even pass when she dies. Why is she central to anything? OMG! The plan can't be to do this thing to Buffy & then that's how the slayer line ends & becomes dark (somehow ridding humanity in the process) - cause the line is not even in Buffy anymore. Nothing will pass on. So, really, it's all in Faith. You kill all the girls & even the slayer (Faith doesn't seem to be important to this definitely with the girl who tried to kill her in prison being confirmed as an attack by the First {I thought that knife looked familiar! Caleb probably tried to pay her to take Faith out- but then a new girl would just be called! - What's the point in that? Why not just leave it at Faith, she was ripe picking in that jail}). & another important point on this topic - if the line isn't even in Buffy & it's got nothing to do with Faith - then why not try it before this? How the hell is Buffy the center of this? She's not the real slayer!!!! AHHHHH!!! Okay, after pulling this apart for almost 2 hours I've gotten no where & have just confused myself more. I'm taking a break & re-watching the ep. I'll be back! I'll post new stuff below in an hour or so. Ya know, though... it could just be that Joss' plot is full of holes & that's why I'm so confused cause it will contradict other things. We'll see. Okay, I rewatched & got nothing. I'm just super mad Xander got hurt. One thing that might be of interest is what Caleb said about Buffy - "the slayer. The strongest. The fastest. The most of plain. That most precious invention of all mankind & notion of goodness." Plain folks are the humans. He's saying Buffy's the it for humanity. Maybe this is why humanity will end if they make her dark (evil dark). & maybe the difference between the darks was outlined in this episode - she's filled with dark & despair. Read the end of Buffy & Angel fanfic I constantly refer to Past Thoughts | ||||||||
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Angel 4-24-03 "The Magic Bullet" & "Sacrifice" - I know I haven't posted for the last two episodes - everything has been really great on "Angel". My life is another matter - roommate troubles & the last month of college have been consuming my time. Sorry, guys. It's almost over soon - both of those troubles. Yea! But I can't help to think about the drastic changes happening in Angel. Angel not seeing past that Conner is being controlled is part of his resentment toward his son for Cordelia. Wow. From what I've heard there are some amazing things to come as well. I can't wait. Yeah I can - because when the finale airs, I will be done with all my finals!!!!! So, yeah, I can wait cause I need some time to prepare for all that. But, yeah, wow. Wesley with the guy from the other dimension, the implications of the Powers or Fate sending them that bone, Angel's dark turn, the Fred & Gunn tension - how everyone's character is turning into something darker. & it again raises those morality questions. What is moral? What is right? Prime example of this to chew on for a while - in an ethics lecture I had the other day in one of my classes my teacher raised the question: Is it moral to torture someone if they are a member of a terrorist group who have planted a chemical bomb that would kill millions of people if you were 90% sure they would tell you where the bomb was if tortured & that you could possibly diffuse it & save all those lives? I took the bold position in class. I said I would do it. Even knowing that I could face the legal consequences of my actions afterward. I guess that would put me in the Angel - & Buffy, for that matter - crowd. & I'm sure my opinion on that has been somewhat effected by Joss Whedon. 4-9-03 "Shiny, Happy People" - I really don't know that much to say. It's strange that Angel & Fred appear to be kissing next week because for some reason when she was doing that scene by Cordy's bed with Angel - I wanted them to kiss. & when she was talking to Wesley toward the end, I wanted them to kiss. So I'm wondering if maybe you can spread the knowledge through a kiss. Other than that - Jasmine is no god. Skip thought so but no. & the creation myth is not like how she said it was. What she did was evil & the motives now are demon not godlike. It's some kind of demon who thinks they're a higher power or it is an evil ancient force much like the First. I predicted the bedside manner for Cordy due to the incoming pregnancy. I wonder when Charisma is due? Definitely it was not Charisma in that shot of the couch with a non-pregnant Cordy. The whole thing makes you wonder about the visions this whole time. Is it like Skip said? I don't know because I don't think she's a god. But maybe. She seems to have answers. & about how the trials for Darla's life gave Conner his - that was interesting but still inconsistent with history. The timing is off. I swear I'll have more to say next week! Read the end of Buffy & Angel fanfic I constantly refer to Past Thoughts | |||||||||
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