BtVS S7's failure is definitely determined and defined, at the end of the day, by Chosen. I didn't/don't mind that the group was so disconnected from each other and from the community at large. After all, that's a pretty typical storytelling technique, and not new to the Jossverse (see BtVS seasons 4, 5 and 6).
I think that what ME was trying to do was to globalize the effort, yeah? Take the fight beyond Sunnydale, and so when Sunnydale went down, it was a setback. Losing the battle, but in the end ultimately winning the war (for now). But they were so incredibly clumsy with that metaphor. And if the Potentials were meant to represent The People (as I think they were), then their expendability and lack of willpower in determining their own lives/fates, were troubling, oftentimes disturbing.
Buffy and her gang, standing at the edges of the destruction that have wrought, and smiling. In relief, probably. And during a temporary respite, certainly. But those aren't the images that we're left with - we're left with Chosen.
I think it's telling as well (in a snobby way, I know) that it took AtS to carry the empowerment of all the Potentials to its logical conclusion with Damage.
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BtVS S7's failure is definitely determined and defined, at the end of the day, by Chosen. I didn't/don't mind that the group was so disconnected from each other and from the community at large. After all, that's a pretty typical storytelling technique, and not new to the Jossverse (see BtVS seasons 4, 5 and 6).
I think that what ME was trying to do was to globalize the effort, yeah? Take the fight beyond Sunnydale, and so when Sunnydale went down, it was a setback. Losing the battle, but in the end ultimately winning the war (for now). But they were so incredibly clumsy with that metaphor. And if the Potentials were meant to represent The People (as I think they were), then their expendability and lack of willpower in determining their own lives/fates, were troubling, oftentimes disturbing.
Buffy and her gang, standing at the edges of the destruction that have wrought, and smiling. In relief, probably. And during a temporary respite, certainly. But those aren't the images that we're left with - we're left with Chosen.
I think it's telling as well (in a snobby way, I know) that it took AtS to carry the empowerment of all the Potentials to its logical conclusion with Damage.