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Just watched the ep of Season 6 where Warren kills his ex. Jesus, when Joss and co decides to screw people over, they really screw people over. Ten shades of fucked-up with Buffy on the self-abuse kick with Spike and getting off on it, Spike just taking it and obsessing - plus you can see where the almost-rape's going to come in from this stuff. Then you see just how much of a moral-less psycho Warren is (this multiplies the sick of him in the ep where he kills Tara so much), adding in the first time you see Andrew getting off slightly on getting away with it, showing what's been proven in S7, that he really can't distinguish much between right and wrong, and Jonathan realising what he's gotten himself into. Meep.
Damn good dialogue, damn good acting on all sides. Though I have quibbles with the way as soon as Buffy heard the possible Warren link, she immediately absolved herself of killing. But it does chime in with her personality - when in doubt, don't think about the morals, get the job done - kill first, think later. When doing the job, she shuts herself off from any emotion. But the 'Please don't forgive me' break down with Tara. My god, that was just as painful as anything in the rest of it.
Goes to prove that the writing/acting team on Buffy aren't just good with the angst or the sudden gut-punches like Tara's death. They're good at the sinking horror of situations of fucked-upness too. Atch, I reckon this? Much better ep that the ones following Tara's death, because if they'd managed to inject this much horror rather than just concentrating on Darth Rosenburg and impending apocalypse, it would've been so much more effective.
Damn good dialogue, damn good acting on all sides. Though I have quibbles with the way as soon as Buffy heard the possible Warren link, she immediately absolved herself of killing. But it does chime in with her personality - when in doubt, don't think about the morals, get the job done - kill first, think later. When doing the job, she shuts herself off from any emotion. But the 'Please don't forgive me' break down with Tara. My god, that was just as painful as anything in the rest of it.
Goes to prove that the writing/acting team on Buffy aren't just good with the angst or the sudden gut-punches like Tara's death. They're good at the sinking horror of situations of fucked-upness too. Atch, I reckon this? Much better ep that the ones following Tara's death, because if they'd managed to inject this much horror rather than just concentrating on Darth Rosenburg and impending apocalypse, it would've been so much more effective.
