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Jul. 1st, 2006 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smg01I'm up to season 5 of my Buffy odyssey. It's been fun watching all at once knowing how things all end up. I'm getting a fresh appreciation for the construction of things as a whole. Things that I've noticed this time around. (Some I may have noticed before and am seeing anew.)
There's some nice set up from very early on for Willow's later troubles with magic. It's interesting seeing as early as season 3 Giles trying to get Willow to go slowly with the magic and have respect for it. And in season 4 we see the looming tendency for Willow to use magic to try to make herself feel better or to take shortcuts to avoid difficulty. (Her unwillingness to accept the truth from others that it's just going to take time to get through the pain of Oz leaving.) In season 5 we start to see her eagerness to use magic for things that can be just as easily dealt with in ordinary ways. And of course in season 6 that tendency will bit everyone in the butt.
I just finished watching Fool for Love. I really like this episode. Spike has a line that I noticed again for the first time with this viewing. It's near the end when he's talking to Buffy about how Slayers are killed and he says something like, "in the end she's killed because she's ready to die." (That's not the exact line, but I've got the right meaning.) That struck me this time around and I did a mental flash forward to The Gift and I thought of Buffy being tired of the violence and the sacrifice and the killing and just being ready to surrender to death. That was nicely done.
There's some nice set up from very early on for Willow's later troubles with magic. It's interesting seeing as early as season 3 Giles trying to get Willow to go slowly with the magic and have respect for it. And in season 4 we see the looming tendency for Willow to use magic to try to make herself feel better or to take shortcuts to avoid difficulty. (Her unwillingness to accept the truth from others that it's just going to take time to get through the pain of Oz leaving.) In season 5 we start to see her eagerness to use magic for things that can be just as easily dealt with in ordinary ways. And of course in season 6 that tendency will bit everyone in the butt.
I just finished watching Fool for Love. I really like this episode. Spike has a line that I noticed again for the first time with this viewing. It's near the end when he's talking to Buffy about how Slayers are killed and he says something like, "in the end she's killed because she's ready to die." (That's not the exact line, but I've got the right meaning.) That struck me this time around and I did a mental flash forward to The Gift and I thought of Buffy being tired of the violence and the sacrifice and the killing and just being ready to surrender to death. That was nicely done.