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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?
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?
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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.
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As far as Buffy. I don't know that it reaffirmed anything for her. I don't think she would have leapt unless she was sure it was going to work, so slight revision from above. But I also think she was through. She would have kept going out a sense of duty but this was the perfect out for her.
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Oh, I like that.
As far as Buffy. I don't know that it reaffirmed anything for her. I don't think she would have leapt unless she was sure it was going to work, so slight revision from above. But I also think she was through. She would have kept going out a sense of duty but this was the perfect out for her.
I can go with that. I didn't really mean it made her want to live so much as it made her see that her death could make the world better for others. Where before she'd thought her job and life and the world had no justice, my thought is that she thought is was pointless--Dawn never COULD have the life Buffy was fighting for her to have. But when Buffy realized how she could close the portal, she realized it had all been worth it after all, and now was her time to prove it. She was happy with that, I think, but I think her death was hopeful--for Dawn, and for herself, for fulfilling her purpose in life.