But no, I don't think they meant us to think that because Faith turned out to be a homicidal bitch, Buffy was necessarily always right. Yes! That's a great way to put it. Buffy was petty and vindictive with Faith a lot of times. And trying to kill Faith was the darkest thing she did. But the opposite is also true: Buffy's not being shiny white doesn't negate that Faith was pitch black at that time. And whatever Buffy did, she and others stumbled all over each other to reach to Faith, to pull her back from the brink, not let the Watcher Council take her etc.
And pulling the rug with a poor neglected orphan turning out to be a nasty serial killer - yes, such a Jossian thing to do. And the parallel with Spike in SR is interesting. Spike was never taken as low as Faith after he was accepted by Scoobies and started on the road to redemption in S5. Even SR doesn't compare, not even close, to Faith exploits in S3-S4 (let's not forget her almost killing Joyce in S4! And torturing Wesley.) They are more or less on the same page in S7, both repentant. But Faith still had a lot more baggage on her since she came in contact with the Scoobies, than Spike had since S4. So I would expect the acceptance to "good guys" camp to come harder for her than for Spike.
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Yes! That's a great way to put it. Buffy was petty and vindictive with Faith a lot of times. And trying to kill Faith was the darkest thing she did.
But the opposite is also true: Buffy's not being shiny white doesn't negate that Faith was pitch black at that time. And whatever Buffy did, she and others stumbled all over each other to reach to Faith, to pull her back from the brink, not let the Watcher Council take her etc.
And pulling the rug with a poor neglected orphan turning out to be a nasty serial killer - yes, such a Jossian thing to do. And the parallel with Spike in SR is interesting. Spike was never taken as low as Faith after he was accepted by Scoobies and started on the road to redemption in S5. Even SR doesn't compare, not even close, to Faith exploits in S3-S4 (let's not forget her almost killing Joyce in S4! And torturing Wesley.) They are more or less on the same page in S7, both repentant. But Faith still had a lot more baggage on her since she came in contact with the Scoobies, than Spike had since S4. So I would expect the acceptance to "good guys" camp to come harder for her than for Spike.