Re: A Second Look: BTVS S7D6

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> "Arbitrar Of Quality" <tsmtsm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> A reminder:  So... wheelchair fight?
> 
> Show me the box full of ointments, you little freak.
> 
> 
>> BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
>> Season Seven, Episode 20: "Touched"
> 

> The chaos of the gang trying to figure out how to make a
> decision is, I think, mainly aimed at the resolution of Faith
> just being the new Buffy.  As has been observed of other
> revolutionary groups, the only way they know how to do things is
> how it's always been done.  Which kind of defeats the point of
> the revolution.  Or - meet the new boss - same as the old boss. 
> So it's not just a failure of leader****p by Buffy that's at
> work.  It's the whole structure that all of them have bought
> into that needs to be changed. 

One interesting point is that it doesn't seem to occur to any of 
the core Scoobies that they could step in here, either individually 
or as a group.

>> Season Seven, Episode 21: "End Of Days"
> 

> 
> My problem was the way that it handled the reconciliation to the
> Empty Places schism by pretty much skipping it entirely and just
> making everything good between everybody.  Oh, there's no lack
> of good reasons for people getting back on good terms with each
> other and working together again like they do here.  Even
> working better than ever.  It's just that there's no process. 
> It suddenly is. 
> 
> The way I mostly look at it now is that it's DMP to an extreme. 
> (And, AOQ, you're largely responsible for getting me to actually
> think about that episode and see how it acts as precedent.)  The
> Scooby gang have never been good at, you know, saying stuff to
> each other.

"the good guys are not traditionally known for their communication 
skills"

And it's not just DMP, that's how the Scoobies USUALLY reconcile 
after a blowup.

-- 
Michael Ikeda    mmikeda@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Telling a statistician not to use sampling is like telling an
astronomer they can't say there is a moon and stars"
Lynne Billard, past president American Statistical Association