Yeah, I was going to bring up the Initiative as an example of an organization that Buffy had better instincts than, and then I realized that she went along with it when she thought about how it made her happy, whereas it was Xander and Willow and Giles who saw through it.
The Scooby dynamic is pretty fantastic. I am getting ahead of myself again, but I love the way each finale plays off a different variation of how Buffy & the Scoobies save the day together: Buffy think she's alone but she's not (Prophecy Girl), Buffy is alone (Becoming), Buffy & Scoobies & everyone comes together (Graduation Day), the core Scoobies come together (Primeval), the Scoobies fight but Buffy pays the price (The Gift), Buffy fights but is sidelined and both the world-ending threat and the solution come from the Scoobies (Grave), everyone's fighting but the Scoobies are all fighting in separate rooms and areas (Chosen). The push-pull of how central the Scoobies are to Buffy, and Buffy to the Scoobies, and the Scoobies to each other, is never static, always changing.
a shame that most people who like the Scoobies just like the 'they're such good friends' version
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Date: 2010-08-16 10:18 pm (UTC)The Scooby dynamic is pretty fantastic. I am getting ahead of myself again, but I love the way each finale plays off a different variation of how Buffy & the Scoobies save the day together: Buffy think she's alone but she's not (Prophecy Girl), Buffy is alone (Becoming), Buffy & Scoobies & everyone comes together (Graduation Day), the core Scoobies come together (Primeval), the Scoobies fight but Buffy pays the price (The Gift), Buffy fights but is sidelined and both the world-ending threat and the solution come from the Scoobies (Grave), everyone's fighting but the Scoobies are all fighting in separate rooms and areas (Chosen). The push-pull of how central the Scoobies are to Buffy, and Buffy to the Scoobies, and the Scoobies to each other, is never static, always changing.
a shame that most people who like the Scoobies just like the 'they're such good friends' version
Yes!