It's a question of creativity. Saying the word "exactly" - well, it's just one word. But repeating an entire rhyme? I'd rather they come up with a new rhyme.
The only other time such repetition was done so baldly was in taking the line "The hardest thing in this world is to live in it" from The Gift and having Dawn repeat it in OMWF. It made sense, but it's a moment that kinda falls flat. It's better to reimagine the words like how they do in AtS Season 4 - first with Angel's speech about "heroes show the world what it can be, so it can become what it should be" (paraphrasing) and then how when he's about to slash Connor's throat he says how he's gonna prove it to him.
She was known for improvising little bits here and there, that they liked and let slip in.
Hmm. If so, then you'd think she could have improvised something new. I'm just saying the line lost points for me due to unoriginality. Of all the words to choose, considering the incredible uniqueness of Dru's voice, to repeat words already used by her, such a specific turn of phrase - it feels lazy. Something else could have been written that worked to resonate with what Dru had done and still be original. They just didn't do that.
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The only other time such repetition was done so baldly was in taking the line "The hardest thing in this world is to live in it" from The Gift and having Dawn repeat it in OMWF. It made sense, but it's a moment that kinda falls flat. It's better to reimagine the words like how they do in AtS Season 4 - first with Angel's speech about "heroes show the world what it can be, so it can become what it should be" (paraphrasing) and then how when he's about to slash Connor's throat he says how he's gonna prove it to him.
She was known for improvising little bits here and there, that they liked and let slip in.
Hmm. If so, then you'd think she could have improvised something new. I'm just saying the line lost points for me due to unoriginality. Of all the words to choose, considering the incredible uniqueness of Dru's voice, to repeat words already used by her, such a specific turn of phrase - it feels lazy. Something else could have been written that worked to resonate with what Dru had done and still be original. They just didn't do that.