On Feb 22, 1:02 pm, Arbitrar Of Quality <tsm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Feb 22, 1:00 am, burt1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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> > 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?
Well, if it did, it would work against Willow's magically-powered
fists, too, rendering the spell she cast on herself just as pointless.
And as for modifying it on the fly, Anya was reading the spell out of
a book. I don't think Willow would have paused and waited for her to
look up new page numbers.
> 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 not interested in getting into the tiny details of how this spell
or that spell worked; I'm interested in characters not acting like
complete idiots, like Dark Willow did here. That kind of thing takes
me out of the show.
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