Buffy rewatch.....

[tabaqui]

It's so fun, and a bit bitter-sweet, to rewatch Buffy. So many little moments I'd forgotten, so many excellent episodes.

Currently in the middle of 'Tabula Rasa', which is probably in my top ten of favorite episodes. But this episode - and the ten or so - maybe fifteen? - that preceded it have, once again, completely and thoroughly cemented my intense dislike of Willow.

Jayzus, I just....
*hands*

When she tells Tara that she 'needs her', it makes me think...that for a long time Willow's been leeching power from Tara, and that's why she ends up going to Rack - to get the boost she needs that Tara has cut her off from.

And I like Buffy a *whole lot more* now than I did upon first watching. Funny, that.

It's also making me re-read some of my old fic and while the cliches and fan-girl-fix-it stuff is all right there and embarrassingly obvious, I really should put more of that stuff up on AO3. (And wow, I'm old - i can't read stuff over at my website for too long, it makes my eyes go crazy.)

Anyway - random post of the day. Feel free to talk about Buffy and episodes and character meta or *whatever* in comments...could be fun! :)

Comments

[intrigueing]

Awww, I still really like Willow (although I like her in a very different way that most fans seem to like her...like, for example, I almost wish she had gone *more* evil when she did, it would have almost made more sense and been more satisfying). I get what you mean, though.

But I like Buffy more every single time I rewatch the show. I just seem to notice more and more little things again and again. Perhaps as I get further and further away from my teenage years, I get a more and more balanced and sympathetic perspective on all the teenager-y things people complain about when they say they find her annoying.

The way I love her is really very different from the way I love pretty much all my other favorite fictional characters, though. I've always found it pretty much impossible to find the words to explain it, but a big part is that a lot of the things I *dislike* about her as a person are the same things that make me love her as a character, because a blatant non-ideal quality is so integral to the meaning of her character.

[tabaqui]

Yeah, having a distance of years does help a lot. She's less annoying and a lot more sympathetic. So is Dawn, amazingly, heh.

And i just want *more Tara*, damnit. Much more.