Either she instinctively knew he was still good, and the text then works to prove to us he's good with many pages to be more convincing. Or she just boinked a guy thinking he's good when he is in fact an evil son of a bitch sometimes--path to hell has been paved with spacefrakking--up, up and away!
I assumed that it was the glow that made her (and Angel) incredibly horny.
I guess Joss wanted to resolve all Bangel UST, accumulated in the fandom during 10 years. So he came up with Big Spacefrak - but, in order to justify Buffy sleeping with the enemy, he used Glowhypnol, making both Buffy and Angel victims of The Almighty Universe.
It's Buffy's post-coital behavior that bugs me. In #35 she doesn't look affected by glowhypnol - neither visually, nor textually. Yet she accepts Angel's "goodness" without questioning: if Twilight is Angel then he can't be bad. They shouldn't fight whatever he does. She shouldn't question his actions. She seems okay with everything he has done. As soon as Angel is by her side, the only thing that can go wrong is a band of orcs coming over the mountain.
That was the weirdest part of the arc. Really? Orcs? Buffy, this is the (supposed) love of your life, who is responsible for everything bad that happened in your recent life, including death of 200+ slayers! And the only thing that troubles you is that something can interrupt your idyll?
Maybe Meltzer was intentionally writing in the Meyeresque mode to attract Meyer fans, who knows.
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Date: 2010-08-29 09:31 am (UTC)I assumed that it was the glow that made her (and Angel) incredibly horny.
I guess Joss wanted to resolve all Bangel UST, accumulated in the fandom during 10 years. So he came up with Big Spacefrak - but, in order to justify Buffy sleeping with the enemy, he used Glowhypnol, making both Buffy and Angel victims of The Almighty Universe.
It's Buffy's post-coital behavior that bugs me. In #35 she doesn't look affected by glowhypnol - neither visually, nor textually. Yet she accepts Angel's "goodness" without questioning: if Twilight is Angel then he can't be bad. They shouldn't fight whatever he does. She shouldn't question his actions. She seems okay with everything he has done. As soon as Angel is by her side, the only thing that can go wrong is a band of orcs coming over the mountain.
That was the weirdest part of the arc. Really? Orcs? Buffy, this is the (supposed) love of your life, who is responsible for everything bad that happened in your recent life, including death of 200+ slayers! And the only thing that troubles you is that something can interrupt your idyll?
Maybe Meltzer was intentionally writing in the Meyeresque mode to attract Meyer fans, who knows.