how could she know what will happen if she's not a time-traveller?
Maybe because 250-year-old Willow remembers Buffy coming back from the future and telling 25-year-old Willow what happens? ;-) Based on everything that's said in the issue, I'm not sure there's any more to Willow being there than simply that she's become either immortal or very long-lived and simply lived through it all. It would make sense of why she's dressed like Drusilla: something went very wrong in her past - Buffy's present - and Willow has been in mourning for 200 years. No wonder she'd go mad. Of course, whether she's there to prevent that happening or make it happen remains to be seen...
Willow "zips up" Warren's mouth and skins him on the last minute of Villains, but the depiction of her tortures appear on Lloyd's wall at least 10 minutes earlier (29-th minute of the episode).
How do you figure that? D'Hoffryn mentions it in "Selfless."
emotionally I can't see Willow turning to dark side permanently
Agreed, though a) we still don't know if that's what's happened, and b) even if she does in this timeline, that's not necessarily saying she WILL go permanently dark. I still think this is Season 8's version of "The Wish" or "Hell's Bells"; here's where they could end up if they do something wrong.
I'm reading a discussion about season 8 and if it feels like season 1.
That thread confuses me. I must say I can't remember seeing a single review - at least not in the last year - that says Season 8 is like season 1 of BtVS; there might have been the odd one that I've missed, but "almost all"? Where? Why make up criticisms only to refute them?
"Sorry, Puff". Does it mean that dragon's actual name is Puff?
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Maybe because 250-year-old Willow remembers Buffy coming back from the future and telling 25-year-old Willow what happens? ;-) Based on everything that's said in the issue, I'm not sure there's any more to Willow being there than simply that she's become either immortal or very long-lived and simply lived through it all. It would make sense of why she's dressed like Drusilla: something went very wrong in her past - Buffy's present - and Willow has been in mourning for 200 years. No wonder she'd go mad. Of course, whether she's there to prevent that happening or make it happen remains to be seen...
Willow "zips up" Warren's mouth and skins him on the last minute of Villains, but the depiction of her tortures appear on Lloyd's wall at least 10 minutes earlier (29-th minute of the episode).
How do you figure that? D'Hoffryn mentions it in "Selfless."
emotionally I can't see Willow turning to dark side permanently
Agreed, though a) we still don't know if that's what's happened, and b) even if she does in this timeline, that's not necessarily saying she WILL go permanently dark. I still think this is Season 8's version of "The Wish" or "Hell's Bells"; here's where they could end up if they do something wrong.
I'm reading a discussion about season 8 and if it feels like season 1.
That thread confuses me. I must say I can't remember seeing a single review - at least not in the last year - that says Season 8 is like season 1 of BtVS; there might have been the odd one that I've missed, but "almost all"? Where? Why make up criticisms only to refute them?
"Sorry, Puff". Does it mean that dragon's actual name is Puff?
Reference to the children's song "Puff, the Magic Dragon."
Upon second reading I appreciated fully the powerful metaphor of Angel's moral suffering after he inadvertently sent LA to hell.
Purgatory?