I agree the greatest problem is making sense of Buffy in a way that's not bad for her. Angel can be spun as being in the gray zone Angel usually inhabits. The best I can come up with for Buffy is that she really was in despair and so decided to jump on the fantasy for a moment since all was lost anyway. Then seeing what she's done, she bounces back to do what she can to make it right. But that does require the story line include the thought that she made a mistake (and not just because the world happened to fall apart as a result). I'm not totally pessimistic about this, but not totally optimistic either.
And yeah, execution is a problem. Even more so are Meltzer's interviews, which taken at face value just destroy Buffy's character in my eyes.
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Date: 2010-08-29 05:30 pm (UTC)I agree the greatest problem is making sense of Buffy in a way that's not bad for her. Angel can be spun as being in the gray zone Angel usually inhabits. The best I can come up with for Buffy is that she really was in despair and so decided to jump on the fantasy for a moment since all was lost anyway. Then seeing what she's done, she bounces back to do what she can to make it right. But that does require the story line include the thought that she made a mistake (and not just because the world happened to fall apart as a result). I'm not totally pessimistic about this, but not totally optimistic either.
And yeah, execution is a problem. Even more so are Meltzer's interviews, which taken at face value just destroy Buffy's character in my eyes.