Re: A Second Look: BTVS S7D2

On Apr 7, 4:05 pm, malspera...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> One of the biggest pleasures for me in S7 is watching Buffy think
> through the core problem and discover the solution without staking or
> slicing or punching people. More and more she leaves that to the
> others, Wood and Spike especially, while she puzzles it out.
>
> It strikes me that she learns how to puzzle out the problem from
> Holden. He does what a good shrink does: teaches her to look at her
> inner problems dispassionately, from all angles, and work through
> them. The big inner problem for Buffy isn't the one Holden identifies
> of feeling both superior and inferior; instead it's the problem of
> feeling alone.

So, hanging out with Holden turns her thinking in the wrong
direction?  The chat just doesn't really say that much about Buffy to
me, no more so than any of the many other looks at her being alone or
singular.

Although it's interesting reading, I have to say that I can't really
feel the connection through the two conversations on either end of the
season to the ending the way you do.  But hey, glad it works for
someone.

-AOQ