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It's Lion Turtles all the way down ([personal profile] lettered) wrote2006-08-01 02:21 am

Questions Post #11

I have another batch of random questions.


General
Do you think Spike ever turned anybody?
Do you think Drusilla ever turned anyone except Spike?
Do you think Darla or Angel ever killed any Slayers?
Where did Gunn live in S2 of AtS?
Can anyone really explain why Buffy dying in "The Gift" made sense? Other than thematically, I mean.
What kind of music does Buffy like?
Doesn't Spike's duster look . . . too big on him, sometimes?
How come Angel's demon form can go out in the sunlight in Pylea? Wesley's explanation for Angel's human form withstanding sunlight is that the human aspects, like seeing his reflection etc are stronger, but then in demon form, shouldn't they be demon-y?
Is Pylea an alternate reality, like a world without shrimp? Or is it an alternate dimension? Is there a difference? Is there anything meta-cle about these terms and what they signify in Jossverse?

Season 6 of BtVS
Do Willow or Tara ever get a job?
Do Anya or Xander (or Willow or Tara) ever think to contribute anything to Buffy's money problems? I mean Willow (and Tara, before she moves out) is living in Buffy's house.
Did the Scoobies really not realize Buffy would come back to life in her grave?
Does anyone think the way they wrote Giles off the show was in character or well done?
Is it just me or do random references to Angel seem to increase in this season?
How does JM do that thing where he looks at SMG like he worships her with everything in him, without looking like a complete boob? Most people look like boobs when they do that. And not the good kind of boobs.
Why doesn't Giles reveal to the council that Buffy died? Isn't he aware that sooner or later everyone will find out? What does he seek to gain by hiding it? (I'm only asking about Giles because presumably you could say the Scoobies kept up the deception of the Buffybot because they thought they were bringing Buffy back anyway).
How come Amber Benson sings so well?
Why can't Spike decide how to fix his hair? Why can't Anya decide how to fix her hair?

Random
Who raised Bruce Wayne (after his parents died)? If it was Alfred, how did Alfred get custody?
Did you guys know Anthony Head is in the new Woody Allen movie (Scoop. I've seen two Woody Allen movies now. The first I despised and this one was really good! I loved Woody Allen in it; he was so endearing!)? Head has 2 lines, but Giles! OMG big-screen Giles!
Why do ants bear away their dead brethren?

[identity profile] 43100.livejournal.com 2006-08-01 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Can anyone really explain why Buffy dying in "The Gift" made sense?

I didn't get the heroic thing at all at first re: that. She practically COMMITTED SUICIDE. I know that it was to save the world etc. but she just looked so darn happy about it. Her life was really going to shit.

She also loved being dead.

All signs point, imho obviously, that Buffy committed suicide - not only to save the world, but every other reason! That makes more sense to me, at least.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-08-01 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I meant more from a logistical standpoint, that is, how did Buffy dying close the portal, not why'd she kill herself.

I don't know. I feel like Spike would say she wanted to commit suicide--he's really on about that darkness inside of her, her wanting death, embracing it. But he wouldn't get that Buffy never would've done it if she wasn't sure it'd save the world. That is, the only reason she did it was to save the world; no matter how many other factors might've tempted her, she would never've given into them.

The reason she looks happy, imo, is yeah, maybe relief, but not so much because she gets to die as because she thinks she's finally doing the right thing. All of S5 she couldn't win, couldn't defeat Glory, couldn't save Dawn, couldn't do the One Thing In All The World Only She Could Do. And she's confused that the world has no answers, that she could suffer everything she's suffered to save the world and still not save it anyway. But at the end she figures out how to save it; she finds her answer; her faith in the world is restored in a way, her faith in LIFE is restored in a way, and she tells Dawn that. That she has to die to get there is a price she's willing to pay to make the world a fair place for Dawn.

[identity profile] 43100.livejournal.com 2006-08-01 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
As [livejournal.com profile] a2zmom said: It's as much a suicide leap as a heroic gesture.

I guess the whole 'summers' blood' thing doesn't quite make much sense. The portal needed the blood of Dawn to close and in Blood Ties, Buffy had pointed out that Dawn's blood was just like her own. So basically, their blood is alike, ergo - Buffy could close the portal just as much as Dawn could. That doesn't quite explain why it makes sense, though...