Right before she jumps, she has an epiphany and realizes her death will close the portal same as Dawn's would. At the same time, I don't think she entirely cares. If she was convinced it wouldn't work, then she wouldn't have jumped, but since she has the idea it might, she's more than happy to kill herself. It's as much a suicide leap as a heroic gesture.
I'm not sure I agree. I think the reason she jumped was because she thought it would work. There might've been other reasons she'd thought of suicide before, other reasons that made her glad to do it, but I think the ONLY REASON she actually did do it was to save the world. I think when she realized that that was the solution to finally saving her sister, she realized that the world was not against her: it had not made her the One Girl In All The World to solve an unsolvable problem; in fact the very nature of her Slayerness was the solution. I think that was very life affirming for Buffy, in a twisted kind of way--she saw that the world has its injustices but it has its justice too. People like her suffer so that people like Dawn and Xander can live. And to her, that's worth it.
Alternate reality is a parallel universe. It's a copy of Earth except one thing has changed (which sometimes leads to massive differences) like the Wishverse. Alternate dimension is just another world period. Like Mars. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
I was just thinking: when does a copy get made, in a parallel universe? What some time after the Big Bang one little change was made, changing the dust and stuff that later becomes Earth into a planet with two suns. Because of the suns everything is different, and there are green people and drokkens and horses and everyone speaks English? Such that Pylea is really just a parallel universe too? It just bugs me.
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What about after she left Spike?
Didn't you read my story "Called", missy?
I forgot it's almost canon! ;o)
Right before she jumps, she has an epiphany and realizes her death will close the portal same as Dawn's would. At the same time, I don't think she entirely cares. If she was convinced it wouldn't work, then she wouldn't have jumped, but since she has the idea it might, she's more than happy to kill herself. It's as much a suicide leap as a heroic gesture.
I'm not sure I agree. I think the reason she jumped was because she thought it would work. There might've been other reasons she'd thought of suicide before, other reasons that made her glad to do it, but I think the ONLY REASON she actually did do it was to save the world. I think when she realized that that was the solution to finally saving her sister, she realized that the world was not against her: it had not made her the One Girl In All The World to solve an unsolvable problem; in fact the very nature of her Slayerness was the solution. I think that was very life affirming for Buffy, in a twisted kind of way--she saw that the world has its injustices but it has its justice too. People like her suffer so that people like Dawn and Xander can live. And to her, that's worth it.
Alternate reality is a parallel universe. It's a copy of Earth except one thing has changed (which sometimes leads to massive differences) like the Wishverse. Alternate dimension is just another world period. Like Mars. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
I was just thinking: when does a copy get made, in a parallel universe? What some time after the Big Bang one little change was made, changing the dust and stuff that later becomes Earth into a planet with two suns. Because of the suns everything is different, and there are green people and drokkens and horses and everyone speaks English? Such that Pylea is really just a parallel universe too? It just bugs me.