Buffy discussion thread!
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james_nicoll, with whom I was having an amusing discussion about fifth-season Buffy the Vampire Slayer over on kate_nepveu's journal. We've brought it over here, since after a gentle remonstrance from Kate, we figured we probably really shouldn't be running over people with the Spoiler Truck.
Without further ado, we are now resuming the discussion! Y'all feel free to jump in on this if you like. Anybody who has no interest in the latter seasons of Buffy or Angel, though, you might not want to look past the cut.
James wondered whether he was the only one bothered by nobody taking steps to reverse the insertion of Dawn into the memories of everybody in Sunnydale. An intriguing question, I thought, and we have had a fun discussion about whether it would be moral for Buffy to try to go about doing this--even if Dawn + Glory = universe goes boom.
My general take on the matter: even if she was forcibly inserted into the memories of an entire community upon her incarnation as a human, Dawn herself is neither evil nor malicious. (Whiny annoying teenager, sure, but not evil. And in Dawn's defense she did get a lot less annoying in season 7. ;) ) So to eliminate all traces of her fabricated history would only serve to cause her emotional harm. Also, it would require enormous amounts of power to alter the memories of all the affected people in Sunnydale--not only Buffy and her immediate family and friends, but also everyone in the school system who became Dawn's teachers and classmates. Since last I knew the monks who incarnated Dawn in the first place all got wiped out by Glory, there would be the question of who would have the power necessary to reverse that memory engineering and to do it in such a way so as to not torch anything else in people's heads in the process. And there'd be the question of whether it would be enough that Dawn's continued existence is a theoretical threat--or whether it might take another incarnation of Glory in physical form to make Buffy and company motivated to do something.
Discuss!
james_nicoll, with whom I was having an amusing discussion about fifth-season Buffy the Vampire Slayer over on kate_nepveu's journal. We've brought it over here, since after a gentle remonstrance from Kate, we figured we probably really shouldn't be running over people with the Spoiler Truck.Without further ado, we are now resuming the discussion! Y'all feel free to jump in on this if you like. Anybody who has no interest in the latter seasons of Buffy or Angel, though, you might not want to look past the cut.
James wondered whether he was the only one bothered by nobody taking steps to reverse the insertion of Dawn into the memories of everybody in Sunnydale. An intriguing question, I thought, and we have had a fun discussion about whether it would be moral for Buffy to try to go about doing this--even if Dawn + Glory = universe goes boom.
My general take on the matter: even if she was forcibly inserted into the memories of an entire community upon her incarnation as a human, Dawn herself is neither evil nor malicious. (Whiny annoying teenager, sure, but not evil. And in Dawn's defense she did get a lot less annoying in season 7. ;) ) So to eliminate all traces of her fabricated history would only serve to cause her emotional harm. Also, it would require enormous amounts of power to alter the memories of all the affected people in Sunnydale--not only Buffy and her immediate family and friends, but also everyone in the school system who became Dawn's teachers and classmates. Since last I knew the monks who incarnated Dawn in the first place all got wiped out by Glory, there would be the question of who would have the power necessary to reverse that memory engineering and to do it in such a way so as to not torch anything else in people's heads in the process. And there'd be the question of whether it would be enough that Dawn's continued existence is a theoretical threat--or whether it might take another incarnation of Glory in physical form to make Buffy and company motivated to do something.
Discuss!