I didn't want to read this until I'd read the issue, but now I have.
Very interesting ideas, and even if I'm hoping they're not going to bring up the key thing again (s5 was great... once), and killing Dawn after what they've already put her through here would probably be the last straw for me, you make some interesting points and you may certainly have something here.
like Buffy, Gepetto is all about keeping people safe. Dawn wants to strike out on her own even though it's dangerous, and at the end of the issue that's pretty much where she and Buffy are. (...) Gepetto has a bunch of dolls that he created who do exactly what he tells them, and Buffy has a bunch of slayers that she created who do exactly what she tells them (see Dawn's description of the slayers in this issue). So Dawn wants to or needs to escape and Buffy is preventing it.
Which goes nicely with my theory of how this will all end: not with the undoing of the Slayer spell, not with Buffy restored as leader of the Slayer Army, in fact not with a Slayer Army at all - but with an ideological revolution rather than a military one. For seven seasons, there was one (main) Slayer fighting her demons. Now there are thousands, still fighting her demons. Buffy needs not to let them escape or prevent them, but help them escape her; go from minions to heroes in their own right, their own battles, fighting their own demons.
Then again, Buffy saved Dawn like the damsel in distress she was.
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Very interesting ideas, and even if I'm hoping they're not going to bring up the key thing again (s5 was great... once), and killing Dawn after what they've already put her through here would probably be the last straw for me, you make some interesting points and you may certainly have something here.
like Buffy, Gepetto is all about keeping people safe. Dawn wants to strike out on her own even though it's dangerous, and at the end of the issue that's pretty much where she and Buffy are. (...) Gepetto has a bunch of dolls that he created who do exactly what he tells them, and Buffy has a bunch of slayers that she created who do exactly what she tells them (see Dawn's description of the slayers in this issue). So Dawn wants to or needs to escape and Buffy is preventing it.
Which goes nicely with my theory of how this will all end: not with the undoing of the Slayer spell, not with Buffy restored as leader of the Slayer Army, in fact not with a Slayer Army at all - but with an ideological revolution rather than a military one. For seven seasons, there was one (main) Slayer fighting her demons. Now there are thousands, still fighting her demons. Buffy needs not to let them escape or prevent them, but help them escape her; go from minions to heroes in their own right, their own battles, fighting their own demons.
Then again, Buffy saved Dawn like the damsel in distress she was.