Buffy speculation
Jan. 26th, 2003 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockan addendum to my previous post~
"ASK ME A RIDDLE," Blaine invited.
"Fuck you," Roland said. He did not raise his voice.
--Wizard and Glass, Stephen King (4th of the Dark Tower books)
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now, onto the rest
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Ok, point of thought:
About the possible foreshadowing of Spike's death this season, especially in a self-sacrificial light. (cross, BY, over-amount of torture)
Really, if they wanted that, couldn't they have sacrificed him in The Gift? I mean, hello--- drink Dawn's blood. Jump off tower into lightning inferno, and stake self mid-fall.
ProBLEM solved.
No messy resurrection issues, and self-sacrifice made and stuff.
Also, I not only don't like the Spike/death idea because I want Spike's character to be alive, but also for Buffy's sake. It would appear to even the most jaundiced anti-B/S fan by now that Spufy romance, or the implication of future Spuffy romance, is something that ME is doing this season. And after all that build up, wouldn't it be horrendously cruel to rip Buffy's heart out AGAIN?
I mean, I know that ME is into the whole tragic comedy thing, and that angst is their writer's lifeblood, but I've had the impression that they mean to show the pain of living along with the joy of it, and to show that living, and loving, is hard. But I never got the feeling that they would kill off characters or make them miserable forever-- it was more of a journey thing. With the idea that you suffer greatly, but that there is hope and love still to be found in the world and people around you. And there is a point when one can overdo trajedy so much that it becomes comedic instead of heart-felt.
I keep thinking about it, and that's why I can't imagine them doing a Spike-self-sacrifice plotline. So Buffy loves yet ANOTHER lover? Possibly the second great love of her life? In the end of the final season? It'd be... a joke. Stupid. I'd look at the screen and go, "the Hell?" It would be like saying the whole show's theme was that you can't find love or happiness--ever, that anyone who does always looses it, and that a hero is always punished for loving. To say that if your work hard for a relationship and you manage to make it real, make it finally good, that it will only be destroyed or taken away soon after.
That'd be a crappy-ass theme. And I think ME is better than that. That'd be like... well, like magic starlight stealing away your sister, because the aliens were too obvious a plot twist by now.
"ASK ME A RIDDLE," Blaine invited.
"Fuck you," Roland said. He did not raise his voice.
--Wizard and Glass, Stephen King (4th of the Dark Tower books)
-----------------------
now, onto the rest
-----------------------
Ok, point of thought:
About the possible foreshadowing of Spike's death this season, especially in a self-sacrificial light. (cross, BY, over-amount of torture)
Really, if they wanted that, couldn't they have sacrificed him in The Gift? I mean, hello--- drink Dawn's blood. Jump off tower into lightning inferno, and stake self mid-fall.
ProBLEM solved.
No messy resurrection issues, and self-sacrifice made and stuff.
Also, I not only don't like the Spike/death idea because I want Spike's character to be alive, but also for Buffy's sake. It would appear to even the most jaundiced anti-B/S fan by now that Spufy romance, or the implication of future Spuffy romance, is something that ME is doing this season. And after all that build up, wouldn't it be horrendously cruel to rip Buffy's heart out AGAIN?
I mean, I know that ME is into the whole tragic comedy thing, and that angst is their writer's lifeblood, but I've had the impression that they mean to show the pain of living along with the joy of it, and to show that living, and loving, is hard. But I never got the feeling that they would kill off characters or make them miserable forever-- it was more of a journey thing. With the idea that you suffer greatly, but that there is hope and love still to be found in the world and people around you. And there is a point when one can overdo trajedy so much that it becomes comedic instead of heart-felt.
I keep thinking about it, and that's why I can't imagine them doing a Spike-self-sacrifice plotline. So Buffy loves yet ANOTHER lover? Possibly the second great love of her life? In the end of the final season? It'd be... a joke. Stupid. I'd look at the screen and go, "the Hell?" It would be like saying the whole show's theme was that you can't find love or happiness--ever, that anyone who does always looses it, and that a hero is always punished for loving. To say that if your work hard for a relationship and you manage to make it real, make it finally good, that it will only be destroyed or taken away soon after.
That'd be a crappy-ass theme. And I think ME is better than that. That'd be like... well, like magic starlight stealing away your sister, because the aliens were too obvious a plot twist by now.
