> Season Six, Episode 15: "Hell's Bells"
> the original thread (from Michael) is that Xander's choice is
> [supposed to be] an epiphany, not a moment of panic. It doesn't play
its a panicked epiphany
actually its not epiphany because epiphany is a sudden clarity of insight
where instead xander still misses the point
hes problem isnt marrying anya (what would really changef
from what they already are doing?)
his problem is being a harris
which means being a failure
the epiphany would be he is himself
and he free to be another harris or a xander or whatever else
> Season Six, Episode 16: "Normal Again"
> Writer: Diego Gutierrez
> Director: Rick Rosenthal
>
> And then we get this entry. It uses a vintage sci-fi stock plot and
> loads of meta to build a crushingly depressing world unlike anything
> else in the series, and make it one of the most important moments of
> Season Six rather than a one-off novelty. (And yes, there's a bit of
> a retcon with Buffy's parents hearing about vampires, but easily hand-
> waved away.) As has been commented, we get so used to Sarah Michelle
ive read the comics sense and tehre actually is a sensible answer
it was dawn ratting on buffy that got buffy sent to the hospital
without dawn buffys diary wouldve remained private and her parents
clueless
so end of season two dawnless and buffy never received psychiatric
treatment
but season six dawnful and buffy did receive treatment
> her way home, but just takes a leap of feeling, and neither the
> character (or the audience, given the ambiguous ending) can
> definitively say that Sunnydale is the real story. Thanks to our
i was irritated that the writers thought it was clever to play with
reality
when what it really does is ridicule viewers who are emotionally invested
i already know sunnydale is fictional
comforting though is that psychiatric side of the story cannot be real
any psychiatrist encouraging a patient to get more deeply invest
in a delusion would lose his job
arf meow arf - everything thing i know i learned
from the collective unconscience of odd bodkins
sacramento - political pigsty of the western world
or a babys arm holding an apple
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