On Feb 24, 1:29 am, burt1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Feb 22, 1:02 pm, Arbitrar Of Quality <tsm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 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]
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> > >> I think the thing for me is that just I'm so much more
> > > > invested in the standoff than in anything else.
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> > > 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).
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> > 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?
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> Well, if it did, it would work against Willow's magically-powered
> fists, too, rendering the spell she cast on herself just as pointless.
Yeah, that's true. Thinking about the scene in more detail, she
spends a chunk of time figuring out just how strong the counter-spell
is, like she's intrigued and determined to overpower it. Then she
moves on and tries something else. The "stupidity" doesn't bother me
because Willow's often so sensual (so to speak) about magic, soaking
it up, prodding at it, and so on. Beating someone to death or
blasting them apart is probably way more satisfying than trying to
drop chunks of ceiling at them. Willow's agenda isn't necessarily to
kill her victims as quickly and efficiently as possible. She took her
sweet time killing Warren in the previous episode too.
-AOQ
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