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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 713262" data-attributes="member: 4779">Re: Re: Buffy 17 Feb 03I took it as Buffy starting to freak out and realized that she/the group doesn't have what it takes to beat The First the way things are now.  But her natural instincts are to keep fighting and win.  She doesn't have any quit in her but she does have fear, panic and concern.  She has no idea what is coming.  She doesn't know really what the hellmouth holds and no one is giving her the answers she needs to fight the war.  Plus, it's the leader's job to shake things up a bit when needed.  She may have been a bit off and wrong in the way she handled it, but it needed to be said.She chose not to take the power because she didn't want to become more demonlike and therefore closer to evil.  The First Slayer was a savage and she doesn't want to become that.  She wants to be more than that.  Because of the people around her, she has been able to survive longer and do things that the slayers of the past couldn't because of her resources (the rest of the Scoobs).For the leaving part, she didn't leave IIRC.  When the "exchange student" was forced into the portal she was whisked away.  No time for more questions.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  And as for the freaking out after killing Angel thing and some of her other seemingly rash actions, do you know any 23 year old females (which I believe is Buffy's current age in the show) who have died twice, killed their vampire lover, lost a loved parent, gained a sister out of literally nowhere and saved the world on mulitple occassion?  She's still easing into adulthood and will crack from time to time.  The important thing is that she bounced back each time, sometimes with help and others on her own.  The show is certainly fantasy but it's characters are grounded in reality and humanity.  That's what I like about it so much.  But to each his own.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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