Re: A Second Look: BTVS S6D6

On Feb 15, 6:44 am, Rowan Hawthorn <rowan_hawth...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Arbitrar Of Quality wrote:

> > On the decision to hold off on Dark Willow until the very end of the
> > year, I'm very much in favor.  The Willow-centric parts of "Villains"
> > through "Grave" are tightly, tightly plotted.  Each episode leaves one
> > little time for unnatural breaks in the action, because the writers
> > seem to have correctly deduced that three hours (with commercials) is
> > exactly the right length to spend on this particular story.  In other
> > Darth Rosenberg related controversies, I don't hesitate in the
> > slightest to say that Dark Willow is leaps and bounds beyond the one-
> > note vampire Willow of S3 (to whom she's often compared).
>
> Dramatically, I'd have to agree with that.  I still like VW a smidgen
> better, though, for one reason: the simple gleeful fun that Vamp Willow
> takes in her evil compared to Dark Willow's bitter
> get-even-with-the-world rampage.

Brunettes have fun too.  By the end of TTG, she's definitely enjoying
being the center of the show, finally going toe-to-toe with Buffy and
gleeful at the chance to make Giles look like the amateur.  Making it
part of the mix is a very different ****trayal than the "simple" fun
(purity, if you will) that we get from Vamp!Willow; obviously some
people like that in a woman-ish evil thing.

-AOQ