*Interesting that whatever scruples they might have had about Buffy stringing along multiple guys (uh, people) seems to have collapsed in season 8.*
I wonder if this had any real thought behind it, or if I'm reading too much into it... I thought that Buffy's shifting interest was a nod to the fact that even though she isn't "one Slayer in all the world" anymore that was never her actual problem.
She always said that being the Slayer isolated her from her friends. But now, she isn't alone as the Slayer (I don't count Faith, because their relationship was too prickly to counter any feelings of Buffy's being apart from others), but she's still not a part of a greater whole, either.
I took her relationships as a nod to the fact that she still feels isolated from everyone else around her, slyly telling us that it was never about her Slayerhood at all. It is HER, not the Calling, that has her so cut off from people around her.
(See, I could be seeing slyness in places it isn't.)
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Date: 2010-08-18 09:41 am (UTC)I wonder if this had any real thought behind it, or if I'm reading too much into it... I thought that Buffy's shifting interest was a nod to the fact that even though she isn't "one Slayer in all the world" anymore that was never her actual problem.
She always said that being the Slayer isolated her from her friends. But now, she isn't alone as the Slayer (I don't count Faith, because their relationship was too prickly to counter any feelings of Buffy's being apart from others), but she's still not a part of a greater whole, either.
I took her relationships as a nod to the fact that she still feels isolated from everyone else around her, slyly telling us that it was never about her Slayerhood at all. It is HER, not the Calling, that has her so cut off from people around her.
(See, I could be seeing slyness in places it isn't.)