Re: A Second Look: BTVS S7D4

On Apr 10, 5:43 pm, Michael Ikeda <mmik...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Arbitrar Of Quality <tsm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Apr 9, 6:38 pm, Michael Ikeda <mmik...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> Arbitrar Of Quality <tsm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> innews:a1bad5f4-8477-4684-9270-0262824a8fd4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> oups. com:
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> >> > Scythe Matters summed it up most accurately
> >> > with his assessment of how the show's bait-and-switch
> >> > backfires.
> >> >  To paraphrase, introducing Warren means introducing all the
> >> > associations that come with him, which the show doesn't
> >> > actually address (since that's not what TKIM is about),
> >> > leaving them hovering unsatisfyingly and drowning out
> >> > anything TKIM might have to say about Willow/Tara/Kennedy.
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> >> I didn't see there as being any "bait-and-switch".  It was just
> >> picking one of several logical ways for the story to go.
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> > It's the very definition of a bait and switch.  We're supposed
> > to think that Willow is forced to be seen as a murderer because
> > she's, well, a murderer.  The big twist at the end is that she's
> > seeing herself as a killer for a very different reason.  Hinting
> > at one story and then telling another is *the way the episode's
> > constructed*.  The technique itself isn't inherently bad.  The
> > reason that it doesn't work in this particular case is because,
> > well...  "It's like bringing Angel back to make some sort of
> > unrelated point about Buffy's poor counseling skills; wrong
> > character, wrong associations, wrong choice. There's too much
> > else that Angel's presence implies. And the same is true here,
> > for Warren. "  - SM
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> Except that it basically HAS to be Warren for the plotline they
> chose.  Because Warren was the one who actually killed Tara.

Add "wrong plotline" to the list, then.

-AOQ