We might not like each other all that much, but we *understand* each other/we're not alone.
I think we're in violent and bitter agreement on that part, actually. Faith and Buffy were finally able to open up and be honest with each other, after all the passive-aggressive snarking and punch-throwing of the past few days (mostly on Buffy's part, I have to say). They affirmed their common ground; they (re)discovered that they're more alike than any other two people. But they weren't friends again all of a sudden. The potential for friendship was re-opened, I agree; but acknowledging the past and agreeing to make a fresh start is only the start of the process, not the end. It takes more than a joke about being hot chicks with superpowers to do that.
Would I personally have been happier if Joss and Brian had decided to let Faith's incipient reborn friendship with Buffy blossom over the last 18 months instead of apparently being still-born? Maybe so... although "and they all lived happily ever after" makes a better ending to a story than a beginning and middle." But that's not the route they chose.
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I think we're in violent and bitter agreement on that part, actually. Faith and Buffy were finally able to open up and be honest with each other, after all the passive-aggressive snarking and punch-throwing of the past few days (mostly on Buffy's part, I have to say). They affirmed their common ground; they (re)discovered that they're more alike than any other two people. But they weren't friends again all of a sudden. The potential for friendship was re-opened, I agree; but acknowledging the past and agreeing to make a fresh start is only the start of the process, not the end. It takes more than a joke about being hot chicks with superpowers to do that.
Would I personally have been happier if Joss and Brian had decided to let Faith's incipient reborn friendship with Buffy blossom over the last 18 months instead of apparently being still-born? Maybe so... although "and they all lived happily ever after" makes a better ending to a story than a beginning and middle." But that's not the route they chose.