I think you may be reading it too literally? I think Whedon's stories work better on the metaphorical/emotional level. Which makes it hard at times to explain.
I think it goes back to aycheb's repeat of the line: "you think you know what you are, what's to come, you've barely even begun" and to a point I was trying to make to 2maggie2, although aycheb may have made it better - up until now Buffy has let the power control her life, make her decisions, as well others. She's playing Twilight's game, much as she was playing the First's and Caleb's game up until Touched/Chosen, when she finally realized she wasn't doing it alone.
Both Willow and Buffy are catering to the power - letting it tell them what to do, or throwing it away. All or nothing.
In Fray - DarkWillow realizes that throwing the magic away did not solve the problem. That deciding power was evil, lets throw it out, more or less was akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. What led to the Fray verse - was Buffy pushing the demons into another dimension and closing the door, with Willow's help after herself. Willow sufferred the backlash, and went insane, but was cursed to live forever somehow. (At least that was what I got from reading the comic Fray and Time of Your Life simultaneously). What Buffy and Willow did that lead to Fray is not all that different than what they try here - to get rid of the magic, thinking that will make everything okay.
What Whedon, I think is trying to say is power in of itself is not bad, we shoulding throw it out. It's similar to Superman, who tries to become human, and discards his role as Superman, but realizes that if he does so, he can't save lives.
Here - what happened is the earth gave Buffy back her power. I don't think Willow was directly involved, so much as indirectly. Willow took her power from the earth - she grabbed at it and tugged. Buffy was given hers. Willow does have a natural affinity for it, it does fit her, but she wanted it - she kept grabbing for more, sucking at it. While Buffy didn't want it, and kept rejecting it. Now they've both thrown their power back at the earth - and the goddesses got it all, then got called. And the goddesses represent raw power, uncontrolled, unchained, the slayer in its purest, rawest form. The hands without spirit, or mind, or heart.
I think Willow's arc is parallel to Buffy's, her power is often contrasted to Buffy.
I don't know. And my mind is a big fogged with other things. I do think that the Willow one shot in December may shed some light on what's going on with Willow here. I also think that the comics are Willow and Buffy's story - they appear to be the central focus, which may be why I still enjoy them to some extent, because I am at heart a Willow and Buffy shipper.
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I think it goes back to aycheb's repeat of the line: "you think you know what you are, what's to come, you've barely even begun" and to a point I was trying to make to 2maggie2, although aycheb may have made it better - up until now Buffy has let the power control her life, make her decisions, as well others. She's playing Twilight's game, much as she was playing the First's and Caleb's game up until Touched/Chosen, when she finally realized she wasn't doing it alone.
Both Willow and Buffy are catering to the power - letting it tell them what to do, or throwing it away. All or nothing.
In Fray - DarkWillow realizes that throwing the magic away did not solve the problem. That deciding power was evil, lets throw it out, more or less was akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. What led to the Fray verse - was Buffy pushing the demons into another dimension and closing the door, with Willow's help after herself. Willow sufferred the backlash, and went insane, but was cursed to live forever somehow. (At least that was what I got from reading the comic Fray and Time of Your Life simultaneously). What Buffy and Willow did that lead to Fray is not all that different than what they try here - to get rid of the magic, thinking that will make everything okay.
What Whedon, I think is trying to say is power in of itself is not bad, we shoulding throw it out. It's similar to Superman, who tries to become human, and discards his role as Superman, but realizes that if he does so, he can't save lives.
Here - what happened is the earth gave Buffy back her power. I don't think Willow was directly involved, so much as indirectly. Willow took her power from the earth - she grabbed at it and tugged. Buffy was given hers. Willow does have a natural affinity for it, it does fit her, but she wanted it - she kept grabbing for more, sucking at it. While Buffy didn't want it, and kept rejecting it. Now they've both thrown their power back at the earth - and the goddesses got it all, then got called. And the goddesses represent raw power, uncontrolled, unchained, the slayer in its purest, rawest form.
The hands without spirit, or mind, or heart.
I think Willow's arc is parallel to Buffy's, her power is often contrasted to Buffy.
I don't know. And my mind is a big fogged with other things.
I do think that the Willow one shot in December may shed some light on what's going on with Willow here. I also think that the comics are Willow and Buffy's story - they appear to be the central focus, which may be why I still enjoy them to some extent, because I am at heart a Willow and Buffy shipper.