Written, ironically, by first-time BtVS writer! :)
Willow doesn't come out of it looking any way better than Buffy. She seems to be stunningly delusional about her and Kennedy life and the way she can protect Kennedy from that horrible karma of Buffy. But the irony here is that Willow herself made Kenendy into a slayer, made her like Buffy in every aspect - and even alreday managed to put her through the mystical death similar to Buffy's.
It's still very vague. We know that there is about 1800 slayers and about 500 of them work in Buffy's organization. Are they brainwashed to believe that robbing the banks for the higher purpose is OK? Is Willow afraid that Buffy will turn Kennedy into a criminal? Hard to say.
Also I'm absolutely sure that we are meant to be shocked and horrified by Buffy's robbing a bank because a clear parallel was made both by Willow and by the visual clue between Buffy and the Trio/Warren. They too started with just the money, with stealing sparkly things, with robbing banks. And we remember how it ended.
Good point. Hopefully you're right. Still I can't completely exclude the possibility of playing it for laughs. Do you remember that in Him it turned out that Buffy kept in her house the rocket-laucher Xander and Cordy has stolen in season 2? It was funny - but Buffy was under the spell, so we could easily forgive her...
Also - a great point about "terrible awareness" brought on by Sweet in OMWF and by Sephrilian.
What bothers me is that Joss is recycling his past ideas. Brilliant ideas, but still...
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Written, ironically, by first-time BtVS writer! :)
Willow doesn't come out of it looking any way better than Buffy. She seems to be stunningly delusional about her and Kennedy life and the way she can protect Kennedy from that horrible karma of Buffy. But the irony here is that Willow herself made Kenendy into a slayer, made her like Buffy in every aspect - and even alreday managed to put her through the mystical death similar to Buffy's.
It's still very vague. We know that there is about 1800 slayers and about 500 of them work in Buffy's organization. Are they brainwashed to believe that robbing the banks for the higher purpose is OK? Is Willow afraid that Buffy will turn Kennedy into a criminal? Hard to say.
Also I'm absolutely sure that we are meant to be shocked and horrified by Buffy's robbing a bank because a clear parallel was made both by Willow and by the visual clue between Buffy and the Trio/Warren. They too started with just the money, with stealing sparkly things, with robbing banks. And we remember how it ended.
Good point. Hopefully you're right. Still I can't completely exclude the possibility of playing it for laughs. Do you remember that in Him it turned out that Buffy kept in her house the rocket-laucher Xander and Cordy has stolen in season 2? It was funny - but Buffy was under the spell, so we could easily forgive her...
Also - a great point about "terrible awareness" brought on by Sweet in OMWF and by Sephrilian.
What bothers me is that Joss is recycling his past ideas. Brilliant ideas, but still...