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Date Posted: Sat, Jun 11 2005, 6:49:04 am PDT
It's really me. I come bearing apologies for my absence and cheesecake. Why the cheesecake? Because it's time to wish
Hope your day is spectacularly special and fantastically fun. :)
{{Hugs}} to everyone. I need to do some serious scrolling before I attempt to make rational conversation - which I don't have time to do just now.
I will answer this, though:
"Who do you think was the most complex character in the Buffyverse? Why?"
I think it was Willow. At least, it could have been - if the time had been taken to explore a couple of things. Her journey of self-discovery could have been a fascinating event to watch unfold. I felt as though her trip from quiet geek to powerful goddess missed a few important stops along the way.
At the beginning, she wavered between being self-assured and dismissing herself as unimportant depending on the subject at hand. Was this the outcome of having parents who devalued and ignored her, or growing up in a society that valued conventional beauty and social skills above intelligence during the high-school years? Was her relationship with Oz an attempt to garner the respect of her peers or was it true love? If the latter, was Willow really gay, or was she bi-sexual? In later episodes, it seemed to be firmly established that her sexual orientation was "same sex", but that seems inconsistant to me given her emotional reaction to her break-up with Oz in season five. Was some of that reaction really fear of accepting the person she was beginning to realize she was? How does her life-long obsession with Xander fit in to this?
Then we come to the magic. I found it interesting that Willow didn't really gain power in that area until she bonded with Tara. Was Tara a magical catalyst, or was it that Willow was unable to develop her latent ability until she came to terms with her inner self?
I was annoyed (along with countless others from what I've read) that ME turned Willow's problem with magic from "power corrupts" into "Addictions Anonymous". It was obviously the former, as was proven by her ability to regain control after spending time with the coven in England and having her self-confidence restored. As any self-respecting Wiccan knows, it's not the magic itself but how one uses it that matters. If it had been an addiction, as so much time was wasted establishing, she could never have gone back to it without self-destructing.
Got to run, but I'll be back soon to read everyone else's thoughts on tarasAprentice's question.
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