Buffy Season Eight, The Long Way Home

[lady_windermere]

Yes still thinking about "The Long Way Home", and its effects. Behind cut for Spoilers, and a Poll as well.


Ok so we have 1,800 Slayers now, with 500 under the wing of the watchers council. Of the three groups we have seen, it looks like Xander, Giles and Andrew are in the postions of leadership.

Does this have any effect on the Strong Women message for you? It is true that most of these activated Slayers are young women, so may need guidance. While Buffy is based with Xander, they can both be in leadership of the group they have.

While we have only seen three groups so far, so Willow, a powerful witch with as much experience as Xander may have a group, and so could Faith, has not been discussed. So it could still be that women will be in leadership roles, from what we have been given already, it is the men in these roles (and since when did they trust Andrew that much).

All the womem envolved are superpowered, Slayers, Powerful Witch, while the men, and only three so far, are not. Does this make the men special rather than the 500 slayers they are training?
[Poll #1010325]

Ok I am done!

I do seem to have been mulling the Season Eight over for the past couple of days. Guess when other things are happening in RL, the mind does a runner!

I dreamed I wrote two Spike ficlets last night, and was so disappointed when I woke up, and no ficlets! They seemed good in the dream, but of course I can't remember them now!

Comments

[quoshara.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, comics are still (mostly) geared to their target audience - 14 year old boys. And it is the belief of TPTB that 14 year old boys want men to be in charge. *shrugs*

Which is why you don't see many women in charge even on Sci-Fi shows - same target audience. *RHE*

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Agreed, and yet another reason I do not trust them with Buffy!

[erin-starlight.livejournal.com]

Hard to say, personally I do think that Faith and/or older watchers should have roles. Buffy seems to be more hands on with the field work. Giles has earned his place (though whether he is doing a good job is anyone's guess.) Xander I'm on the fence about, he has not done anything to show me that he is emotionally detached enough to make good judgement calls, e.i. situations like dealing with demons like Angel or Spike.

The fact that Andrew is in charge makes NO SENSE. Other than the fact that they are trusting him way faster than they should he has nothing to offer in ways of leadership. Hell Wesley from Sunnydale with all his faults is by far a better choice than Andrew. Does Giles want these girls to die?

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Andrew and how they are treating him is a total mystery. His role just doesn't make sense at all!

Yes, Giles I can see in the role, Xander, with Buffy there as well, yes, I can understand that. Then it still makes me wonder about Season 7, and the message from then, when their judgement, especially Giles' was questioned.

Guess it is still a case of waiting to see.

losing inspiration in the half-awake/half-asleep state

[dfasgiles.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean about losing ideas from when you're in bed. I'm not sure if it would help with the dream situation, but at other times, if you come up with ideas in the haziness of drifting off to sleep or awakening from sleep, it might help to either keep a notebook or a laptop next to the bed for jotting those ideas/fics down.

I had this recommended to me by one of my fellow writer friends from college when I lamented that great story ideas come to me when I'm drifting off to sleep, but that I can never remember them in the morning.

Re: losing inspiration in the half-awake/half-asleep state

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Well it was a total dream, fully asleep....so could not write it down, cos asleep.....

Re: losing inspiration in the half-awake/half-asleep state

[dfasgiles.livejournal.com]

bummer.