I always feel a little bad going into long replies to your long comments, since you've heard me discuss a lot of this before, but since this chapter is almost entirely new to you, I think it's okay in this situation.
This is sort of a special case; normally you keep me in the dark about your plots, but I have more of an idea of where you're going with this one. Thus my comments will be focused more on the stuff that strikes me as new and unexpected. :-)
That, and I'd mentioned she might be studying art restoration. It just seemed a logical arc for Dawn to me, since she's into the research and ancient languages, to be interested in art, the creation of a reflected or imaginary reality, since she herself is such a creation...
Hm, interesting. I guess Dawn really is an artwork of sorts - sort of a backwards Pinocchio or Galatea, a shell called into existence to house a pre-existing spark of life...
Not to mention the heavy focus on making choices in the final episode - it would seem we were supposed to take away some impression of Buffy as being pro-choice, at least in a "choose power" capacity... I'm just extending that idea to her new life as well, since right now she has the "choice" to be anything she wants... but what does she want?
Yeah, exactly. After the last couple of years, it seemed pretty clear that she didn't want to be a superhero anymore, but we never heard her express any kind of positive aspirations for her life. Other than being (shudder) normal.
I know I'm not the first person to come up with this, but like you said, it has all sorts of neat connotations, again with the "change" theme, material properties transformed...
Oooooh, that's deep! I'll be watching for further appearances of this transmutation theme as the story unfolds...
I figure in the wake of his last words to her, she'd have to be pretty naive to not see that mistakes were made, albeit well-intentioned ones.
Mm, good point. I could see Buffy assuming that Spike knew how she really felt about him, despite her previous dismissive words, and only belatedly realizing that he didn't. As you note, that's a more charitable assumption to make about her character than a pity fuck followed by a pity I-love-you. :-)
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This is sort of a special case; normally you keep me in the dark about your plots, but I have more of an idea of where you're going with this one. Thus my comments will be focused more on the stuff that strikes me as new and unexpected. :-)
That, and I'd mentioned she might be studying art restoration. It just seemed a logical arc for Dawn to me, since she's into the research and ancient languages, to be interested in art, the creation of a reflected or imaginary reality, since she herself is such a creation...
Hm, interesting. I guess Dawn really is an artwork of sorts - sort of a backwards Pinocchio or Galatea, a shell called into existence to house a pre-existing spark of life...
Not to mention the heavy focus on making choices in the final episode - it would seem we were supposed to take away some impression of Buffy as being pro-choice, at least in a "choose power" capacity... I'm just extending that idea to her new life as well, since right now she has the "choice" to be anything she wants... but what does she want?
Yeah, exactly. After the last couple of years, it seemed pretty clear that she didn't want to be a superhero anymore, but we never heard her express any kind of positive aspirations for her life. Other than being (shudder) normal.
I know I'm not the first person to come up with this, but like you said, it has all sorts of neat connotations, again with the "change" theme, material properties transformed...
Oooooh, that's deep! I'll be watching for further appearances of this transmutation theme as the story unfolds...
I figure in the wake of his last words to her, she'd have to be pretty naive to not see that mistakes were made, albeit well-intentioned ones.
Mm, good point. I could see Buffy assuming that Spike knew how she really felt about him, despite her previous dismissive words, and only belatedly realizing that he didn't. As you note, that's a more charitable assumption to make about her character than a pity fuck followed by a pity I-love-you. :-)