I take the bank-robbing to be on-going, not incidental. And the proceeds aren't being used just for necessities, some of it is bleeding into luxuries. And I'm still not convinced that all the high tech stuff is necessary either. In A Beautiful Sunset Buffy describes Willow as being upset about her Thomas Crown affair. Singular. What luxuries have you observed, as in items not directly connected with Slaying or self defence? Even Faith is using high tech rope shooting gun thingies to get around Cleveland. Both the frequency and the luxuries are your assumptions with no direct evidence in the text. They’re what you think Buffy would do based on your opinion of her.
Killing in self-defense in the moment is not the same thing as contemplating killing in a very blase manner. There's no sign that it *bothers* her. But that’s exactly how Buffy typically reacts to things that do bother her. She keeps up a surface façade of “it’s our guarantee.” One of the things that’s struck me most about her in these comics is the difference in demeanour between the public face she shows to the new slayers (and to a certain extent to Willow possibly because lately they haven’t been around each other much) and the much more introspective thoughts she has when she’s alone or occaisionally with Xander (in A Beautiful Sunset).
Poorly-worded or revealing? Could be either.
Killing without hesitation. Running Angel through devastated her. This girl is MUCH harder. Your main problem with her seems to be that she’s not emotional enough. But she looks pretty devastated all the way through stabbing Willow starting with that single tear and breaking down to her knees whaen re-united with current Willow. Her Sunnydale-Pleasantville dream specifically chooses Angel as the character to address the Willow issue. The difference is that now she can’t afford to indulge her emotional breakdowns the way she could when she was a teenager.
Callous attitude to the dead and dying humans in her battle in #4. She knew Willow could save them. All of them. If she didn’t care whether they lived or died it would have been much easier to kill a few as she did the Knights.
Very nearly killing Gigi when there was no imminent threat to herself, but rather cause she was just mad at her. (And specifically because she hurt a SLAYER. Contrast Buffy's feelings about slayers with her feelings about humans -- it's part of why some of us take her "more than" as revealing). Buffy’s a trained swordswoman. If she really intented to kill Gigi she wouldn’t be waving the sword around over her head, she’d be going straight for the heart. Buffy’s feelings about Slayers are the same as for her people, Xander (Renee’s death affected him directly and her first instinct was to protect him and leave the other Slayers to fight their own battles), Willow, possibly even Andrew. Being prepared to risk the nameless mass of humanity in order to save her friends or family is a flaw she’s always had as I noted in the second half of my original comment.
She's not a compelling heroine. She's a hardened leader. Then we simply have very different ideas about what makes for a compelling heroine. Hardened leader Buffy has always been more interesting to me than the schoolgirl who let her emotions rule her. Not surprisingly, I find Elinor more compelling than Marianne.
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In A Beautiful Sunset Buffy describes Willow as being upset about her Thomas Crown affair. Singular. What luxuries have you observed, as in items not directly connected with Slaying or self defence? Even Faith is using high tech rope shooting gun thingies to get around Cleveland. Both the frequency and the luxuries are your assumptions with no direct evidence in the text. They’re what you think Buffy would do based on your opinion of her.
Killing in self-defense in the moment is not the same thing as contemplating killing in a very blase manner. There's no sign that it *bothers* her.
But that’s exactly how Buffy typically reacts to things that do bother her. She keeps up a surface façade of “it’s our guarantee.” One of the things that’s struck me most about her in these comics is the difference in demeanour between the public face she shows to the new slayers (and to a certain extent to Willow possibly because lately they haven’t been around each other much) and the much more introspective thoughts she has when she’s alone or occaisionally with Xander (in A Beautiful Sunset).
Poorly-worded or revealing?
Could be either.
Killing without hesitation. Running Angel through devastated her. This girl is MUCH harder.
Your main problem with her seems to be that she’s not emotional enough. But she looks pretty devastated all the way through stabbing Willow starting with that single tear and breaking down to her knees whaen re-united with current Willow. Her Sunnydale-Pleasantville dream specifically chooses Angel as the character to address the Willow issue. The difference is that now she can’t afford to indulge her emotional breakdowns the way she could when she was a teenager.
Callous attitude to the dead and dying humans in her battle in #4.
She knew Willow could save them. All of them. If she didn’t care whether they lived or died it would have been much easier to kill a few as she did the Knights.
Very nearly killing Gigi when there was no imminent threat to herself, but rather cause she was just mad at her. (And specifically because she hurt a SLAYER. Contrast Buffy's feelings about slayers with her feelings about humans -- it's part of why some of us take her "more than" as revealing).
Buffy’s a trained swordswoman. If she really intented to kill Gigi she wouldn’t be waving the sword around over her head, she’d be going straight for the heart. Buffy’s feelings about Slayers are the same as for her people, Xander (Renee’s death affected him directly and her first instinct was to protect him and leave the other Slayers to fight their own battles), Willow, possibly even Andrew. Being prepared to risk the nameless mass of humanity in order to save her friends or family is a flaw she’s always had as I noted in the second half of my original comment.
She's not a compelling heroine. She's a hardened leader.
Then we simply have very different ideas about what makes for a compelling heroine. Hardened leader Buffy has always been more interesting to me than the schoolgirl who let her emotions rule her. Not surprisingly, I find Elinor more compelling than Marianne.