In Buffy's case we know nothing about the circumstances of the bank robbery. But we know a great deal about Buffy and about Joss from all the seasons that have gone before. People's assumptions about the unknown circumstances simply reveal their own interpretations of the character and the writer. Reading back though the comics I can see all kinds of similarities to the way Buffy's reacted before to feeling under pressure (S7), to having done things she's ashamed of or conflicted about (S6). There's also the precedent of Dawn (who we now know all the circumstances of) covering and lashing out. That's the character background. On the external circumstances we have the increase in magical activity in general and demonic activity in particular, demon armies attacking the world used to be the unique innovation of the First Evil. I hardly think the Buffyverse has become a safer, less violent place since its containment. Last but not least, metaphorically just as Angel going to work at W&H evoked the idea of a former Greenpeace activist signing up with Shell Oil, Buffy finding and working with all the other Slayers recalls the way young people discover political activism, although Equality Now is probably a better model than Greenpeace.
but it's "l'esprit d'escolier" in the comics. It's like that screenshot analysis of the death of the deputy mayor, you're not seeing the wood for the trees, the line for the letters. Misprint or mispronunciation, in context it's funny, clever and true.
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Date: 2008-01-10 07:39 am (UTC)But we know a great deal about Buffy and about Joss from all the seasons that have gone before. People's assumptions about the unknown circumstances simply reveal their own interpretations of the character and the writer. Reading back though the comics I can see all kinds of similarities to the way Buffy's reacted before to feeling under pressure (S7), to having done things she's ashamed of or conflicted about (S6). There's also the precedent of Dawn (who we now know all the circumstances of) covering and lashing out. That's the character background. On the external circumstances we have the increase in magical activity in general and demonic activity in particular, demon armies attacking the world used to be the unique innovation of the First Evil. I hardly think the Buffyverse has become a safer, less violent place since its containment. Last but not least, metaphorically just as Angel going to work at W&H evoked the idea of a former Greenpeace activist signing up with Shell Oil, Buffy finding and working with all the other Slayers recalls the way young people discover political activism, although Equality Now is probably a better model than Greenpeace.
but it's "l'esprit d'escolier" in the comics.
It's like that screenshot analysis of the death of the deputy mayor, you're not seeing the wood for the trees, the line for the letters. Misprint or mispronunciation, in context it's funny, clever and true.