I'm going to take advantage of this to just ramble a bit. (Gives a Willow-like scrunchy I hope that's OK face).
Here's an angle we need accounted for: I can see why Buffy would have a strong sense of connection with these slayers, but why exclude Willow from the care and feeding of the progeny? Willow is also a sine qua non of their being there. (Does that make her a father figure? Oh, no, another absent father figure?) Seriously, though, if your angle is right (and I think it's got to be part of the mix), we are led into the heart of the Buffy/Willow friendship. Which obviously gets complicated as we sort of see in TYoL.
Buffy/Willow links to ponder: Buffy channeling Willow to the point of black eyes in LWH. Was that a connection forged in the slayer spell? It seems to me to be utterly significant that Willow engineers a murder wherein Buffy has to kill her with the Scythe. Seems like some magical something may have gone down. Willow is totally hurt when she discovers Buffy and Satsu together; we learn that she's wondered what Buffy sounds like in bed; we have the whole conversation while Satsu is falling; and I don't think we should dismiss Kennedy's hyper-keep-your-hands-off-my-girl thing as being just about Kennedy's territorial nature. (Who said that Kennedy's spiel about how super hetero Buffy is has a lot to do with her desire to put Buffy in the hetero box to keep her away from Willow?) Anyway, I toss all this out to say that somewhere in the story there has to be an explanation for why Buffy didn't go to her best friend, now magically-bonded person about how to take care of the slayers who are there because of what they jointly did.
I do wonder if Twilight didn't play a role in getting Buffy to the bank robbing part. If that's where the dominos start falling, he's either very lucky or he knew that was how to set things in motion. What role could Twilgiht have played? Use inside man (Xander via Riley and also possibly via Renee) to be the permissive friend, the one who thinks bank robbing is sexy? Orchestrate a series of events that would make Buffy feel defensive vis a vis the human world and therefore more willing to rob human banks to protect her own? All of the above. I can't help but think that the story works best if Twilight is at ground zero of all of this. And if that were so then we ARE going to learn more about how Buffy got to this place.
And finally with Xander, the all-too-permissive friend. I'm just going to toss this out as a big hunk of junk, but if one of our themes is that Buffy and Faith have switched positions, and if Buffy is coming to inhabit more and more of where Faith was in season 3, does anybody feel an unfortunate out of control Buffy/Xander incident coming?
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I'm going to take advantage of this to just ramble a bit. (Gives a Willow-like scrunchy I hope that's OK face).
Here's an angle we need accounted for: I can see why Buffy would have a strong sense of connection with these slayers, but why exclude Willow from the care and feeding of the progeny? Willow is also a sine qua non of their being there. (Does that make her a father figure? Oh, no, another absent father figure?) Seriously, though, if your angle is right (and I think it's got to be part of the mix), we are led into the heart of the Buffy/Willow friendship. Which obviously gets complicated as we sort of see in TYoL.
Buffy/Willow links to ponder: Buffy channeling Willow to the point of black eyes in LWH. Was that a connection forged in the slayer spell? It seems to me to be utterly significant that Willow engineers a murder wherein Buffy has to kill her with the Scythe. Seems like some magical something may have gone down. Willow is totally hurt when she discovers Buffy and Satsu together; we learn that she's wondered what Buffy sounds like in bed; we have the whole conversation while Satsu is falling; and I don't think we should dismiss Kennedy's hyper-keep-your-hands-off-my-girl thing as being just about Kennedy's territorial nature. (Who said that Kennedy's spiel about how super hetero Buffy is has a lot to do with her desire to put Buffy in the hetero box to keep her away from Willow?) Anyway, I toss all this out to say that somewhere in the story there has to be an explanation for why Buffy didn't go to her best friend, now magically-bonded person about how to take care of the slayers who are there because of what they jointly did.
I do wonder if Twilight didn't play a role in getting Buffy to the bank robbing part. If that's where the dominos start falling, he's either very lucky or he knew that was how to set things in motion. What role could Twilgiht have played? Use inside man (Xander via Riley and also possibly via Renee) to be the permissive friend, the one who thinks bank robbing is sexy? Orchestrate a series of events that would make Buffy feel defensive vis a vis the human world and therefore more willing to rob human banks to protect her own? All of the above. I can't help but think that the story works best if Twilight is at ground zero of all of this. And if that were so then we ARE going to learn more about how Buffy got to this place.
And finally with Xander, the all-too-permissive friend. I'm just going to toss this out as a big hunk of junk, but if one of our themes is that Buffy and Faith have switched positions, and if Buffy is coming to inhabit more and more of where Faith was in season 3, does anybody feel an unfortunate out of control Buffy/Xander incident coming?