Since this series started, Cordelia Chase has existed for one specific purpose – to act as Buffy’s Shadow Self. She has represented Buffy’s pre-Slayer self, and her desire to return to that state. That part of Buffy’s life is her childhood – both literally in the sense that she was fifteen years old when sheContinue reading “We’re Like Sisters, With Really Different Hair (Homecoming)”
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I May Be Love’s Bitch (Beauty and the Beasts)
“Love isn’t brains, children, it’s blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love’s bitch, but at least I’m man enough to admit it.” Spike, 3×08 Lovers Walk The nature of love is an impossible thing to distill. If it were possible, then the poets would have done so already –Continue reading “I May Be Love’s Bitch (Beauty and the Beasts)”
Her Name Alone Invokes Awe (Faith, Hope, and Trick)
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; thenContinue reading “Her Name Alone Invokes Awe (Faith, Hope, and Trick)”
Some Friends You Are (Dead Man’s Party)
The legacy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has remained so powerful over the near twenty years it has been off the air not because of its lack of faults, but because of its strengths. Its faults were aplenty. It did not trade in intricate, watertight plotting. It had no capability for visual spectacle. Its worldbuildingContinue reading “Some Friends You Are (Dead Man’s Party)”
Who Are You? (Anne)
Part One: Lily In Season 5, Episode 22 of Angel – the very last episode of the Buffyverse, Not Fade Away – we meet a very important character for one final time. Her name is Anne. Or, it will be. That’s not her name yet. We have met her once before, and back then sheContinue reading “Who Are You? (Anne)”
Insect Reflection 