Fray's axe hasn't demonstrated any special abilities yet, if that's what you are wondering. Sometimes an axe is just an axe.
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
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[NAFDA] We used to get Buffy the day before everyone else, now we get Angel a week after everyone else. And Firefly every Monday!
DXMachina - Apr 28, 2003 8:09:48 pm PDT #2153 of 6793
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
§ ita § - Apr 28, 2003 8:09:52 pm PDT #2154 of 6793
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wow ... it's like Kafka/Sartre at Revello Drive.
Me, who's been thinking Buffy's been giving dumb speeches on purpose (the writers' purpose) is kinda chuffed.
But I'm not sure why she had to leave, precisely. She really can't follow? And it would have been more interesting to me had leadership not fallen to the other lucky person, but it couldn't be Giles or Principal McHottie or Willow, I suppose. And Xander's weak.
Yeah -- if she had hugged Xander, it'd have been different. But she's been amping the general thing, keeping too far a distance, and it's working against her.
DXMachina - Apr 28, 2003 8:16:14 pm PDT #2155 of 6793
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yeah -- if she had hugged Xander, it'd have been different. But she's been amping the general thing, keeping too far a distance, and it's working against her.
The scene at the hospital, she was right on the verge of losing it, yet refused to allow herself to even get near it.
Elena - Apr 28, 2003 8:16:53 pm PDT #2156 of 6793
Thanks for all the fish.
Okay, and was anyone else waiting for Buffy to toss their ungrateful asses out of HER FUCKING HOUSE? It's Dawn's house, too? And how many FULL COPPER PIPE REFITS did you fucking pay for, missy!
§ ita § - Apr 28, 2003 8:17:47 pm PDT #2157 of 6793
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
she was right on the verge of losing it, yet refused to allow herself to even get near it.
Yup. Because strong was more important than human. Faith is terribly likely to get too emotionally involved, but she is more likely to listen, now that it went down this way.
I loved Willow breaking down. AH was on.
Predictably, I also loved the long gun takeaway and all the other gun defenses.
Elena - Apr 28, 2003 8:20:21 pm PDT #2158 of 6793
Thanks for all the fish.
Also - Principal McHottie gets a vote? Whiny potentials get a vote? You ask me, the only people that get a vote are the people that have been with Buffy since the beginning. Four votes - but Buffy gets the final word.
§ ita § - Apr 28, 2003 8:22:42 pm PDT #2159 of 6793
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Problem is -- final word doesn't count. If Buffy wants to take all the Potentials with her, they do need to agree. And the fewer she goes in with, the less point there is going in.
She was just going to use them for cannon fodder in the end. Until they have a plan. And an artefact. Artefacts always help.
The Principal? Not so much of a vote, though.
Griffyn - Apr 28, 2003 8:28:22 pm PDT #2160 of 6793
A person's concepts should exceed their vocabulary, or what's a metaphor?
I'm really shocked that nobody looked to Giles. Hello? Former Watcher? Leadership experience? Making hard decisions? Buffy claimed to be the one doing it, but Giles is the real general in that woman's army.
I understand it was for plot reasons, but my mind just couldn't make the leap.
§ ita § - Apr 28, 2003 8:30:03 pm PDT #2161 of 6793
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I got the Giles thing, actually. He's both withdrawn himself from that position, and been discredited.
Elena - Apr 28, 2003 8:32:15 pm PDT #2162 of 6793
Thanks for all the fish.
Yeah, but he's Giles... Or he was until this season.