Did I tell you in my S7 rewriting I renamed my Kennedy character Kerry, just to make her less annoying? But I'm a sucker for canon, so I went back to Kennedy.
As long as you didn't change her name to "Nader." :-)
Aha. You know, that's cool, and it would bear more elaboration....I don't think they ever cleared up on Angel whether or not Earth is Hell ("Welcome to the home office") or a hell dimension or what. Buffyology would seem to support the latter.
And then we have the occasional references to "hell" proper as opposed to "a hell dimension" - for example, dancing demon Sweet, who threatens to take Dawn with him to "the underworld" and departs with a jaunty "see you all in hell!", or the "Smile Time" puppets who say they come from hell and whose dealings are recorded in the Library of Demonic Congress (which made me laff). At this point, the currency is rather thoroughly debased, but judging from "Hellbound" it seems Spike and Angel still believe in the existence of the genuine item.
However, on the evidence of the shows themselves - particularly the "home office" bit - it would appear that every dimension is a hell dimension, which puts us back in Gnostic territory yet again...
Somehow I see the Slayerini as being a little more open with each other, too -- they're less battered than the original Scoobies, and sort of all peers, thrown into the same situation, so they're going to lean on each other a bit...
Plus, as I think we hinted in earlier chapters, they have the object lesson of the Senior Scoobies as a cautionary example.
Whedon's especially guilty of it in later Buffy.
And even in the final episode, where they're all supposedly Friends Again, Giles and Willow ask Buffy point-blank whether she learned anything about Axcaliber during her crypt trip and she completely ducks the question. These people are evidently no longer capable of communicating with each other at all, sigh.
Yeah, it stuck out a tiny bit.
Sigh. I'll see if we can tone it down a little.
I also kinda liked the idea of the cops in this bit respecting the Slayers
At least during this state of civil emergency. I suppose it's possible that, as the crisis fades, they'll return to the kind of denial mode we kept seeing in Sunnydale. At one point I was thinking of throwing in a line where one of the junior Slayers says "Wow, things will never be the same again after this," and Willow and Xander exchange this knowing look and go "Uh-huh..." But it didn't really fit in anywhere, and it would have been a bit of a downer.
Wait, don't tell me....Kennedy gets pushed off the CLIFFS OF DOVER, and they hook up! ((waits expectantly))
Or the Eiffel Tower, or the Leaning Tower of Pisa... let's maintain the suspense on this one for a bit, eh?
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Date: 2004-05-28 07:14 pm (UTC)As long as you didn't change her name to "Nader." :-)
Aha. You know, that's cool, and it would bear more elaboration....I don't think they ever cleared up on Angel whether or not Earth is Hell ("Welcome to the home office") or a hell dimension or what. Buffyology would seem to support the latter.
And then we have the occasional references to "hell" proper as opposed to "a hell dimension" - for example, dancing demon Sweet, who threatens to take Dawn with him to "the underworld" and departs with a jaunty "see you all in hell!", or the "Smile Time" puppets who say they come from hell and whose dealings are recorded in the Library of Demonic Congress (which made me laff). At this point, the currency is rather thoroughly debased, but judging from "Hellbound" it seems Spike and Angel still believe in the existence of the genuine item.
However, on the evidence of the shows themselves - particularly the "home office" bit - it would appear that every dimension is a hell dimension, which puts us back in Gnostic territory yet again...
Somehow I see the Slayerini as being a little more open with each other, too -- they're less battered than the original Scoobies, and sort of all peers, thrown into the same situation, so they're going to lean on each other a bit...
Plus, as I think we hinted in earlier chapters, they have the object lesson of the Senior Scoobies as a cautionary example.
Whedon's especially guilty of it in later Buffy.
And even in the final episode, where they're all supposedly Friends Again, Giles and Willow ask Buffy point-blank whether she learned anything about Axcaliber during her crypt trip and she completely ducks the question. These people are evidently no longer capable of communicating with each other at all, sigh.
Yeah, it stuck out a tiny bit.
Sigh. I'll see if we can tone it down a little.
I also kinda liked the idea of the cops in this bit respecting the Slayers
At least during this state of civil emergency. I suppose it's possible that, as the crisis fades, they'll return to the kind of denial mode we kept seeing in Sunnydale. At one point I was thinking of throwing in a line where one of the junior Slayers says "Wow, things will never be the same again after this," and Willow and Xander exchange this knowing look and go "Uh-huh..." But it didn't really fit in anywhere, and it would have been a bit of a downer.
Wait, don't tell me....Kennedy gets pushed off the CLIFFS OF DOVER, and they hook up! ((waits expectantly))
Or the Eiffel Tower, or the Leaning Tower of Pisa... let's maintain the suspense on this one for a bit, eh?
Yes but will he be naked alone?
Oh, that would be a terrible waste.