You do egg me on terribly to make these long replies... well, can't be helped.
Kennedy...a failure in execution, not so much in idea... Whedon said he wanted Willow to wind up happy.
My inclination is to lay it on the actress a bit - not that she was per se bad, just bad casting, I think. Too cutesy, too pretty. I think someone sexier, more out there, could have sold me on the 'ship. As is, it just seemed too artificial. And believe me, I was all for the Willow winding up happy, but did it have to be such a "Willow's so great - here, have the happy relationship prize" sort of thing? Wasn't she supposed to be on something of a redemption trip too? Or was it exactly like Amy said, all is forgiven because she's Willow? Few mixed messages there, huh.
Willow and Faith had a great conversation in the car from LA to Sunnydale at the opening of My S7 Fic
I still wouldn't mind seeing this. Why not? I haven't read anything else like it, and I love the idea of Willow thinking about herself in Faith-like terms of needing to atone (you may have noticed a certain element of this in the hubby and I's current fic).
I'm sorry, but if they were going to have the Uber Urok Han Tai Whatever, he needed to be bigger than four feet tall. I'm just sayin.
(grins) Yes, our household makes much merry fun of the UberVamp. Silly, silly menace in its silly, silly elf costume. Don't you love how it takes Buffy two eps to bag one, and in "Chosen," regular humans like Giles are killing them with swords? Uh...
Yeah, I thought that came through nicely.
Ooh, thank you.
I got awfully sick of Buffy sort of bopping Spike around when she didn't want him and then using him when she did, but I felt more sympathetic to her in this fic. I hadn't realized just how much S6 and S7 had damaged her character for me until I started catching earlier Buffy in reruns and remembered how sweet and quippy she'd been.
I guess this story shows where my head at been at then - I thought they'd been trying to make a point about the extent of Buffy's damage, and how she has a really, really hard time reaching out to people for fear of getting hurt. It seemed like she and Spike equaled "safe" together in an odd way - in S6, because she really didn't care about him (or... I dunno, jury's still out for me on that one), and in S7 because they kind of can't hurt each other any more than they already have. I'd thought they'd set up this interesting platform for talking about expectations and how you can make your own life heaven or hell based on them, and I'd had this theory that the end of S7 was going to be all about Buffy letting out this big emotional bubble about how much her friends mean to her but she really isn't as strong as they think and needs them to give her their strength, blahdiddy blah blah. Instead we got a lot of fake smiles and silly dialogue. Guh. In hindsight, Spike's story was the only one that ended up feeling emotionally real to me - the rest of the characters' stories came off as, "oh, well this is just how we want the characters to be." The End. All of which, I guess, explains why the hubby and I are writing our current fic.... so...
Huh. I guess I really need to finish some more of those S7 essays. I still seem to have a lot to say on the subject.
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Kennedy...a failure in execution, not so much in idea... Whedon said he wanted Willow to wind up happy.
My inclination is to lay it on the actress a bit - not that she was per se bad, just bad casting, I think. Too cutesy, too pretty. I think someone sexier, more out there, could have sold me on the 'ship. As is, it just seemed too artificial. And believe me, I was all for the Willow winding up happy, but did it have to be such a "Willow's so great - here, have the happy relationship prize" sort of thing? Wasn't she supposed to be on something of a redemption trip too? Or was it exactly like Amy said, all is forgiven because she's Willow? Few mixed messages there, huh.
Willow and Faith had a great conversation in the car from LA to Sunnydale at the opening of My S7 Fic
I still wouldn't mind seeing this. Why not? I haven't read anything else like it, and I love the idea of Willow thinking about herself in Faith-like terms of needing to atone (you may have noticed a certain element of this in the hubby and I's current fic).
I'm sorry, but if they were going to have the Uber Urok Han Tai Whatever, he needed to be bigger than four feet tall. I'm just sayin.
(grins) Yes, our household makes much merry fun of the UberVamp. Silly, silly menace in its silly, silly elf costume. Don't you love how it takes Buffy two eps to bag one, and in "Chosen," regular humans like Giles are killing them with swords? Uh...
Yeah, I thought that came through nicely.
Ooh, thank you.
I got awfully sick of Buffy sort of bopping Spike around when she didn't want him and then using him when she did, but I felt more sympathetic to her in this fic. I hadn't realized just how much S6 and S7 had damaged her character for me until I started catching earlier Buffy in reruns and remembered how sweet and quippy she'd been.
I guess this story shows where my head at been at then - I thought they'd been trying to make a point about the extent of Buffy's damage, and how she has a really, really hard time reaching out to people for fear of getting hurt. It seemed like she and Spike equaled "safe" together in an odd way - in S6, because she really didn't care about him (or... I dunno, jury's still out for me on that one), and in S7 because they kind of can't hurt each other any more than they already have. I'd thought they'd set up this interesting platform for talking about expectations and how you can make your own life heaven or hell based on them, and I'd had this theory that the end of S7 was going to be all about Buffy letting out this big emotional bubble about how much her friends mean to her but she really isn't as strong as they think and needs them to give her their strength, blahdiddy blah blah. Instead we got a lot of fake smiles and silly dialogue. Guh. In hindsight, Spike's story was the only one that ended up feeling emotionally real to me - the rest of the characters' stories came off as, "oh, well this is just how we want the characters to be." The End. All of which, I guess, explains why the hubby and I are writing our current fic.... so...
Huh. I guess I really need to finish some more of those S7 essays. I still seem to have a lot to say on the subject.