I'll have to ponder the weirdness of the Willow/Warren conversation. But I think it's in the context of the fourth-wall breaking that is going on all over the place in #34. Dawn with the Ben/Glory thing, for example. I'm pretty sure that if we rake the show we could find examples of fourth-wall breaking that really can't work in-story very well. "It must be Tuesday" being the one that most readily comes to mind.
Without #34 at hand, I think I can put on my Stormwreath hat and deliver the following:
1. We can fix it/ We don't have to fix it. They don't have to fix the lower plane's destruction because they are going to 'fix it' by creating new happier versions of everybody in the higher plane. He's talking high in the first remark and low in the second.
OR He's 100% in rationalization mode. He just wants to stay and will say anything to keep Buffy there. Rationalization probably represents 95% of the human exercise of 'reason' and when people are worked up about something they'll self-contradict in spectacular fashion and not be aware that they're doing it.
2. Warren/Willow. They are both nerdy Geeks who don't always see the whole picture at once when something else has their attention. Their attention in that moment is on the cataclysm going on around them, of which Bangel is a part. So they talk about it. I dont' think you even have to be a blindered geeky type to forget about a lot of things in the midst of the world literally being ripped apart.
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Date: 2010-07-15 11:18 pm (UTC)Without #34 at hand, I think I can put on my Stormwreath hat and deliver the following:
1. We can fix it/ We don't have to fix it. They don't have to fix the lower plane's destruction because they are going to 'fix it' by creating new happier versions of everybody in the higher plane. He's talking high in the first remark and low in the second.
OR He's 100% in rationalization mode. He just wants to stay and will say anything to keep Buffy there. Rationalization probably represents 95% of the human exercise of 'reason' and when people are worked up about something they'll self-contradict in spectacular fashion and not be aware that they're doing it.
2. Warren/Willow. They are both nerdy Geeks who don't always see the whole picture at once when something else has their attention. Their attention in that moment is on the cataclysm going on around them, of which Bangel is a part. So they talk about it. I dont' think you even have to be a blindered geeky type to forget about a lot of things in the midst of the world literally being ripped apart.
How did I do with my Stormwreath impression?