Re: A Second Look: BTVS S6D6

On Feb 22, 1:00 am, burt1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Feb 21, 8:36 pm, Arbitrar Of Quality <tsm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>>  I think the thing for me is that just I'm so much more
> > invested in the standoff than in anything else.
>
> Personally, I was way too distracted by Willow's stupidity to get
> invested in anything. Seriously, Dark Willow has to be one of the
> stupidest villains ever. How many times did she try the *exact same
> spell* to kill Jonathon and Andrew after she saw it wasn't working?
> And the way she did eventually decide to kill them was stupid as hell,
> too. It would have been much easier for her to simply blast the
> ceiling and let the resulting collapse kill them. Or telekinetically
> pick up a bunch of weapons from the training room and use them to
> skewer Jonathon and Andrew (like she tried to do to Glory back in
> season 5 - it was a stupid tactic then, but it would have worked just
> fine here).

I don't remember... two or three times, presumably with more power
each time?  The episode doesn't really make it clear how the defensive
spell works, but it seems to be a pretty generalized barrier, at least
against direct magic.  Would it work against physical things propelled
by magic, or could it be modified on the fly to do so?  Is it anything
like the barrier spells Willow used in "Spiral?"  This is the level of
detail that I'm not really into, although I'm sure some feel the show
should have rules and explain them clearly rather than making stuff up
(never really Joss's forte).  (I'm leaving out the stuff from "Grave,"
because that's more about testing Buffy.)

-AOQ