I think it's just quite literally Nietzsche's maxim: that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger
That's always been my interpretation as well. She's not afraid anymore, so she's less inhibited in her fighting. What's he going to do, kill her?
The guy can’t even muster a puff of breath to do a little CPR
This bugs me so much! If he can talk, he can take in and expel air. If he doesn't need oxygen, he's exhaling way way more of it than Xander and would be more likely to be able to help her. I mean I get the oh-so-subtle allusion to the doomed love with a dead man angle, but really, Angel? Really?
The slayer is not supposed to know the anointed one. But Buffy does know him, going to him and letting him lead her to her death
I think prophecies are just about always translation/context issues. This doesn't really get highlighted until the end of Angel S1 with Wesley's confusion over "shanshu." The texts are in dead languages, and contain words that we don't quite have concepts for any more. I tend to think of the First Slayer, who needs Tara to speak for her during Restless, and then in S5 when she'll talk directly to Buffy but in riddles. Antiquity and modernity can't quite communicate.
Then again, Dru's prophecies don't make sense even as she's telling them to the people they concern. There's no way to explain the stars to Spike, even if she thinks they're being perfectly clear.
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Date: 2010-10-01 07:49 am (UTC)That's always been my interpretation as well. She's not afraid anymore, so she's less inhibited in her fighting. What's he going to do, kill her?
The guy can’t even muster a puff of breath to do a little CPR
This bugs me so much! If he can talk, he can take in and expel air. If he doesn't need oxygen, he's exhaling way way more of it than Xander and would be more likely to be able to help her. I mean I get the oh-so-subtle allusion to the doomed love with a dead man angle, but really, Angel? Really?
The slayer is not supposed to know the anointed one. But Buffy does know him, going to him and letting him lead her to her death
I think prophecies are just about always translation/context issues. This doesn't really get highlighted until the end of Angel S1 with Wesley's confusion over "shanshu." The texts are in dead languages, and contain words that we don't quite have concepts for any more. I tend to think of the First Slayer, who needs Tara to speak for her during Restless, and then in S5 when she'll talk directly to Buffy but in riddles. Antiquity and modernity can't quite communicate.
Then again, Dru's prophecies don't make sense even as she's telling them to the people they concern. There's no way to explain the stars to Spike, even if she thinks they're being perfectly clear.
for Xander it's only personal
So true. He's always been the Heart.