What I'd like to see on Buffy

[estepheia]

This is my Christmas wish list for the rest of Season 7 (and I'm trying to keep it reasonable):

* I want to see Giles's reaction to the news that Spike is a) souled, b) manipulated by First Evil. Somehow I don't think we will get a very sympathetic reaction from him but a pragmatic one, a 'better safe than sorry - let's stake him' from the man who killed Ben. But I can always hope that I'm wrong right? Maybe Giles will be the one who finally says it out loud: that a vampire who voluntarily gets his soul back is darn amazing!

* I don't want to see Dawn become a Slayer or a potential Slayer. I want her to die closing the hellmouth for good. Is that too much to ask? After all, she's a mystical key, right?

* I want to see Xander and Anya together again.

* I want to see more guest appearances of former cast-members: Dru, Jonathan, Warren, Jenny Calender, Cecily, Angel and Darla (what I wouldn't give for another Fanged Four flashback.

* Spike and Buffy? Should end up as friends at least.

* I want Spike to be alive or undead at the end of the season - definitely not dust.

Is that too much to ask?

Comments

[firehorse.livejournal.com]

1-I think Giles is the most likely to realize that Spike having gone and gotten his soul back deliberately is, as you say, pretty darn amazing.

2-Yes. Yes. Dawn is Key; therefore let her 'lock' the Hellmouth closed and save us from her grating voice.

5-I don't think they'll ever end up more than uneasy allies. I don't know that I want to see them as more than uneasy allies. (Y'know, part of my problem with the show is that I really don't like Buffy all that much. If I knew her in real life, I'd probably tell her to grow up and get over herself.)

6-Yes. Spike had better still be breathing--or not, as the case may be--at the end of the season. I'll be most upset if he's dusted, for whatever reason.

For an interesting take on where Buffy might go, read this (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=jennyo&itemid=76488). She definitely has some interesting points.

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

I looked at jennyo's discussion, but I am not convinced.

I wouldn't be surprised if at the end of the season (or at some time during the season) Buffy would lose her Slayer powers (echoing Riley's loss of strength). It would be ironic if Miss Superiority complex would lose the foundation her arrogance and "I am the Law" attitued is based on. The last time she lost her powers during her cruciamentum she handled the vampire threat, but psychologically she didn't deal well with the "impotence." I honestly don't expect Buffy to die, because I am beginning to suspect that Joss is not an advocate of grand sacrifices. I believe he favours the idea of making other options work and then moving on to cope with life. :-) Here's hoping (because that would bode well for Spike too).

BTW, Someone at BigBadBoard, I believe it was Lumily, came up with the theory that Spike's story is a retelling of the pinocchio plot. To me that makes a lot of sense. I hope she's right. That way we might end up with human Spike, which is a hell of a lot better than dusted Spike.