Comments on: But we don’t mess with life and death

By: Josie

Josie — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:14:10 +0000

Or, you know, Willow could have not gone dark because that storyline? Sucked.

Heh. A world of agreement.

I continue to congradulate you, Hazel, on the recaps.

By: stephanie b

stephanie b — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:14:44 +0000

Or, you know, Willow could have not gone dark because that storyline? Sucked.

I find the Dawn/Spike storyline rather tiresome and unbelievable; however, I think the ending is very moving with Buffy wanting her mother to be at the door and Dawn realizing that she must let her mother go. Nice work by both SMG and MT in that scene.

Even though that tentacle-ly thing that Spike "fights" for the egg is about as menacing as a wilting dandelion, I always thought that Doc was pretty creepy.

By: Hazel

Hazel — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:34:37 +0000

I can only agree. That was one of the reasons I chose that quote as a title. I know they weren't guaranteed a season six but there are so many ways that Buffy could have been resurrected that didn't involve this contradiction. And, of course, many other ways that Willow could've gone dark.

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:30:52 +0000

The thing that annoys me about this episode is that they *directly* contradict the central premise only a few episodes later, at the beginning of season 6. I know they dabble a little bit with the "did she come back wrong" idea and clearly it's meant to be a real sign that Willow has gone off the deep end, but ultimately there doesn't appear to be any meaningful consequence to what they do. Beyond that, it's just frustrating in what it says about their opinion of the "bit characters" like Joyce compared to more important folks. Everyone knows it's a bad idea to bring back Joyce but they go ahead and do it for Buffy because...well...it's her name on the title of the show. I was hoping that season 7 was going to be the ultimate payoff, with the implication that the reason why the First Evil is able to get a foot in the door is because Buffy disrupted the flow of things by coming back - but they only hinted at that vaguely and never gave us anything else. So many lost opportunities...