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Date Posted: 10:06:02 10/27/05 Thu
Author: manwitch
Subject: Willow's Apologist
In reply to: Cactus Watcher 's message, "Re: The Central Metaphor for Evil" on 06:46:32 10/18/05 Tue

"Buffy and the slayers, who had power forced on them"

Just for clarity, Buffy does say to them, "this is where you make a choice" and the implication is that those present chose in the affirmative.

What about those that weren't present? So they get powers. I don't see what the problem is. We all have powers. We find out more about them as we go along. The off screen potentials who got empowered were not suddenly finding themselves under the thumb of the watchers council in a lonely battle against evil. They were knocking the cover off the ball in little league or kicking some wife-beating red neck's ass. Again, I don't think anything is "forced" on them until the Buffy gang attempts to assimilate them. I assume they are by and large granted choice in this. The chick on Angel was a special circumstance.

It could be argued that Willow had more forced upon her by her experiences at Sunnydale and with Buffy. Willow felt more external pressure to open doors that could not be closed. Off-screen potentials had change in their power with no change in their experience. Willow had an enormous change in her experience with no concommitant change in her powers. Therefore she felt a necessity to do the spells. Her personality left her more vulnerable to their power.

Willow's motives are not purely selfish, are they? At the beginning especially. She feels compelled to help, finds a way that she thinks she is able, and finds it difficult to close the doors she has opened.

Willow's transition to evil is especially sad as it all stems from Buffy's advice to "seize the moment." She siezes it, is nearly killed, needs to do something in response, and the rest leads inexorably to addiction, Tara's death, and black Willow.

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