Re: A Second Look: BTVS S7D4

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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> > Scythe Matters summed it up most accurately
> > with his *****sment 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.
>
> 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.

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

-AOQ