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Date Posted: 08:39:58 11/24/05 Thu
Author: Darby
Subject: Writing from the corner.
In reply to: query 's message, "something bugging me about Once More (SPOILER)" on 00:40:01 11/23/05 Wed

The plot got backed into a corner: as it got down to the end, the summoner needed to be present, but run down the other candidates - Xander was a lousy choice, but the everybody else would have been worse.

Characters who wouldn't do it, for various reasons: Spike, Anya, Giles, Tara. Anya might have worked, but it's hard to rationalize why she wouldn't know that calling in a demon could do anything but work out badly.

Characters who had to be ignorant: Buffy, Dawn.

Characters who, due to other subplots, were already in trouble and didn't need more: Willow.

Also, keep in mind that Xander could be guilty and explain it in just a couple of lines (you couldn't do that with a non-core-group character), plus in a couple of lines the whole "demon queen" business could be dismissed. And that's a second reason to eliminate the female characters.

There's a special subset of mythology (especially tv mythology) that amounts to, "we did this because we had not choice within the structure of the episode, but from here on we're going to pretty much act like it never happened." Even Star Trek, with a much more obsessively-consistent canon than Buffy, did this occasionally.

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