(Indescriminate = love the first black clad hunk of a knight thing you see? Love a person even though you don't trust them? Love them completely, with your whole heart, even though every sign says "get away"?)
Yup. And it's yet another play off Always Darkest...Buffy can't tell Spike and Angel apart because they are wearing the same outfit (a soul). (A discriminating Buffy would be able to tell the difference between a curse and a quest). Most people want to say indiscriminate means Buffy going for Spike even though she was destined for Angel, but I like this way better. It also would give the blurb a nice symmetry. Buffy has to go back to the place of indiscrimnate love (Angel), where the Scoobies were formed (Scoobies) and the hell mouth was closed (Spike). Dawn is the only bond missing, and she wasn't there -- so that makes sense as well.
I love that the closing of the hell mouth finally gets raised in the wake of Spike's entrance to the story. He is the one who destroyed Sunnydale. It was always his job to destroy Sunnydale -- see, e.g. the SD sign getting knocked over thrice by Spike. I have no idea what it means. The blurb is capable of being read as Spike discovering that he (Spike) is the source of the problems, not Angel. That might mean that the closure of the hellmouth is the problem. I hope Spike isn't the problem -- or maybe he is one third of the problem. The easiest way to read this story is as a meta commentary on the story and fandom and what not. There are three tribes in the fandom, and we're all tearing Buffy apart. And the divisions in fandom reflect the divisions in Buffy. There was always a tension between her vampire side and her Scoobie side. Not hard to see a wedge between her Angel side and her Spike side. What remains is some plot device to have those three things flow together to be causing Buffy's problems here.
So many possibilities. It could turn out very bad for a Spike fan, but I'm still excited.
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Yup. And it's yet another play off Always Darkest...Buffy can't tell Spike and Angel apart because they are wearing the same outfit (a soul). (A discriminating Buffy would be able to tell the difference between a curse and a quest). Most people want to say indiscriminate means Buffy going for Spike even though she was destined for Angel, but I like this way better. It also would give the blurb a nice symmetry. Buffy has to go back to the place of indiscrimnate love (Angel), where the Scoobies were formed (Scoobies) and the hell mouth was closed (Spike). Dawn is the only bond missing, and she wasn't there -- so that makes sense as well.
I love that the closing of the hell mouth finally gets raised in the wake of Spike's entrance to the story. He is the one who destroyed Sunnydale. It was always his job to destroy Sunnydale -- see, e.g. the SD sign getting knocked over thrice by Spike. I have no idea what it means. The blurb is capable of being read as Spike discovering that he (Spike) is the source of the problems, not Angel. That might mean that the closure of the hellmouth is the problem. I hope Spike isn't the problem -- or maybe he is one third of the problem. The easiest way to read this story is as a meta commentary on the story and fandom and what not. There are three tribes in the fandom, and we're all tearing Buffy apart. And the divisions in fandom reflect the divisions in Buffy. There was always a tension between her vampire side and her Scoobie side. Not hard to see a wedge between her Angel side and her Spike side. What remains is some plot device to have those three things flow together to be causing Buffy's problems here.
So many possibilities. It could turn out very bad for a Spike fan, but I'm still excited.
I heart Joss's commentary! song in a big way.