Thoughts for the day: #1, On inconstancy.

[randomness]

Just because what she said then she now contradicts completely doesn't mean she was any less sincere then, or believes in what she says or does now any less.

Sometimes, that's hard. But it isn't any less true.

Comments

[nafe.livejournal.com]

I can't believe I'm going here, but whatever. Buffy actually had a lot of this going on, and the non-communication device drove a great deal of the story. Giles witholding from Buffy, Willow to scared to tell Xander something, Buffy bottling up everything she possibly could cause she likes to sulk, etc etc ad inifinitum.

I nearly cheered in the last season when Faith, having just finished her creepy encounter with the First in the guise of The Mayor, was asked by bald-principal guy if something was up, and she started to do the standard "no everything is fine, i'm just gonna let this encounter fester and eat at me" thing, but stopped, and actually talked about it w/bald prinicipal guy. Thus averting some crazy disaster. It was a small moment, but so telling about how thoroughly the show had relied on it's characters being so distant from one another most of the time. (And it confirmed my love for Faith as my favorite character.)

Ok, sorry about that, I'm done now.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

That's one of the things that drove me nuts about Buffy. Not necessarily the fact that they didn't talk to each other, because okay, people are dumb, they do that all the time. But that the NEVER LEARNED FROM IT. The final season in particular annoyed me with that aspect. :)