VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, [9], 10 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 05:32:18 11/01/05 Tue
Author: MarkM
Subject: Re: Emphasis
In reply to: Celebaelin 's message, "Emphasis" on 05:30:15 10/31/05 Mon

I tend to think Spike meant 'always' as in 'always has the potential', not as in 'something will always happen'.

One could argue that Tara, despite being an experienced and cautious practitioner of magic, was storing up a weight of unpaid consequences for herself which eventually resulted in her seemingly meaningless and random death.

The problem I have with this is that I think witches would have known about this problem, and it would have been made clear in the show at some point. And if it was so certain then there would be no witches left.

I tend to think that magic is a dangerous and tricky business, but that if you *fully* know what you are doing you can avoid the pitfalls. And other times you might get lucky.

But fallout from amateur magic making was often a very handy plot device.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.