That's interesting about Kimba. I might look into that.
Re: Spike & Giles & authority figures: I agree with all this. Spike certainly mirrors Angel as well as Giles, and there are many huge ways in which Spike and Buffy's story hits the same beats as Buffy and Angel's, but from a completely different perspective. Spike may have had a healing effect partly because he could resolve both Buffy's Angel and Giles issues?
Xander also mirrors Giles--in S8 especially, he takes the watcher role very explicitly ("and I still have my watcher," she says in LWH), and this matches up with Xander's statement in Restless that he had been into being a watcher. They react in somewhat similar ways to Angel in S2/3, Spike in 5/6 (though they diverge in 7, when Xander is more accepting of Spike), and are similarly blind to Buffy's depression in S6. (Then again, so was Willow.)
The Welcome to the Hellmouth/Dead Things parallel is really amazing.
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Date: 2010-06-06 05:47 am (UTC)Re: Spike & Giles & authority figures: I agree with all this. Spike certainly mirrors Angel as well as Giles, and there are many huge ways in which Spike and Buffy's story hits the same beats as Buffy and Angel's, but from a completely different perspective. Spike may have had a healing effect partly because he could resolve both Buffy's Angel and Giles issues?
Xander also mirrors Giles--in S8 especially, he takes the watcher role very explicitly ("and I still have my watcher," she says in LWH), and this matches up with Xander's statement in Restless that he had been into being a watcher. They react in somewhat similar ways to Angel in S2/3, Spike in 5/6 (though they diverge in 7, when Xander is more accepting of Spike), and are similarly blind to Buffy's depression in S6. (Then again, so was Willow.)
The Welcome to the Hellmouth/Dead Things parallel is really amazing.