This discussion is inspiring me to re-read Long Way Home again. I noticed some more great resonances. Man, every time I read Season 8 I come out of it with something new.
LWH 2
Buffy: The first clue this was going downhill? Clearly... Andrew:...Lando Calrissian's outfit...I'll buy a race of teddy bears with unstoppable tree-trunk technology any day over that outfit on a leader.
It really is about Buffy's outfit! :)
General Voll: (thoughts) Just a suit. Walks and talks, has by chance a man in it.
Or by chance, a woman? It's just a suit. But no, it's more than a suit. Does wearing the Slayer gear mean Buffy has suborned her identity to conform to the needs of the Slayer organization? Is she just a suit with by chance a woman in it? Where did the woman go and when will she stop hiding? Remember in Restless when Buffy says: "I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones. Now give me back my friends." Where is the Buffy that owns her separation from the darkness of the Slayer? She's lost in "a suit".
More Spike refs in LWH 3:
Ethan: It's an expression, pet. Like 'pet'. Buffy: Also not okay. How did you get into my dream?
A Spike nickname. That nickname is so clearly owned by Spike in the 'verse that it smells of him, as Xander'd say.
Which leads to Buffy shutting the door immediately on her dream of Angel and Spike. Again, I keep feeling that Buffy is deliberately not saying his name while there are all these things in the issue that resonate with Spike.
Long Way Home always amazes me on re-reads because it's so relevant to every new issue. The Season keeps building and building on it's foundation and wow, LWH is a very strong foundation. I think it's arguably one of the best season openers hands down. If I had the time I'd go through how meaningful and prophetic every line is in these four issues. My favorite is particularly pertinent to the Predators and Prey arc - Buffy: We're being played, Xander. I don't like it.
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LWH 2
Buffy: The first clue this was going downhill? Clearly...
Andrew:...Lando Calrissian's outfit...I'll buy a race of teddy bears with unstoppable tree-trunk technology any day over that outfit on a leader.
It really is about Buffy's outfit! :)
General Voll: (thoughts) Just a suit. Walks and talks, has by chance a man in it.
Or by chance, a woman? It's just a suit. But no, it's more than a suit. Does wearing the Slayer gear mean Buffy has suborned her identity to conform to the needs of the Slayer organization? Is she just a suit with by chance a woman in it? Where did the woman go and when will she stop hiding? Remember in Restless when Buffy says: "I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones. Now give me back my friends." Where is the Buffy that owns her separation from the darkness of the Slayer? She's lost in "a suit".
More Spike refs in LWH 3:
Ethan: It's an expression, pet. Like 'pet'.
Buffy: Also not okay. How did you get into my dream?
A Spike nickname. That nickname is so clearly owned by Spike in the 'verse that it smells of him, as Xander'd say.
Which leads to Buffy shutting the door immediately on her dream of Angel and Spike. Again, I keep feeling that Buffy is deliberately not saying his name while there are all these things in the issue that resonate with Spike.
Long Way Home always amazes me on re-reads because it's so relevant to every new issue. The Season keeps building and building on it's foundation and wow, LWH is a very strong foundation. I think it's arguably one of the best season openers hands down. If I had the time I'd go through how meaningful and prophetic every line is in these four issues. My favorite is particularly pertinent to the Predators and Prey arc - Buffy: We're being played, Xander. I don't like it.