Just as Dawn serves as a mystical extension of Buffy-the-girl, the Potentials in S7 are a mystical extension of Buffy-the-Slayer. I think that the Potentials provided the means for Buffy to gain the final pieces of knowledge about who she was in relation to her calling. After all, as any teacher can tell you, the best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else.
This is so true! I also think that there was reason Buffy was so harsh when Chloe committed suicide, it kinda echoes Buffy's own death wish in season 5, it's the dark part of the Slayer, her weak spot. "I'm the slayer. The one with the power. And the First has me using that power to dig our graves."
In order to be in a position to, in a sense, liberate the Slayers from the control of the Watchers, Buffy had to be a leader to the girls who came to her. I think that her relationship with Dawn gave her exactly the experience she needed to be able to act as a figure of authority for the Potentials.
Agreeing again. You know this reminds me of Spike's speech in "Touched":
SPIKE You were their leader and you still are. This isn’t something you gave up. It’s something they took. BUFFY And the difference is? SPIKE We can take it back.
It isn't only about leadership but about power. Buffy took the power back from the CoW first in "Checkpoint" in order to fight for Dawn and foremost in "Chosen" when she chose to change the rule and activate the Potentials. Each time she took back what belonged to the Slayer.
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Date: 2006-02-11 02:19 pm (UTC)Just as Dawn serves as a mystical extension of Buffy-the-girl, the Potentials in S7 are a mystical extension of Buffy-the-Slayer. I think that the Potentials provided the means for Buffy to gain the final pieces of knowledge about who she was in relation to her calling. After all, as any teacher can tell you, the best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else.
This is so true! I also think that there was reason Buffy was so harsh when Chloe committed suicide, it kinda echoes Buffy's own death wish in season 5, it's the dark part of the Slayer, her weak spot. "I'm the slayer. The one with the power. And the First has me using that power to dig our graves."
In order to be in a position to, in a sense, liberate the Slayers from the control of the Watchers, Buffy had to be a leader to the girls who came to her. I think that her relationship with Dawn gave her exactly the experience she needed to be able to act as a figure of authority for the Potentials.
Agreeing again. You know this reminds me of Spike's speech in "Touched":
SPIKE
You were their leader and you still are. This isn’t
something you gave up. It’s something they took.
BUFFY
And the difference is?
SPIKE
We can take it back.
It isn't only about leadership but about power. Buffy took the power back from the CoW first in "Checkpoint" in order to fight for Dawn and foremost in "Chosen" when she chose to change the rule and activate the Potentials. Each time she took back what belonged to the Slayer.
Sorry for multi-replying, I can't type today!