History Headscratchers / BuffySeason6

** I thought it was particularly glaring that Willow during her brutal honesty speeches that she didn't call out the other character for their brushed under the rug killings and attempted killings, like Buffy, after Faith almost kills Angel, Buffy stabs Faith in the stomach, Faith was human she only lived because she fell off the roof, if she hadn't Buffy would have drained the bitch and fed her blood to Angel, then all those {{Well Intentioned Extremist}} she kills in Season 5 they were human too, and depending on your perspective they were the damn good guys, and again with Buffy trying to murder everyone in "Normal Again"(Jesus Buffy should have been put down months before Willow turned dark). I also always got the feeling that when Giles tells Ben that Buffy is not like them, that Giles might have killed his fair share of people. and Xander with his summoning of Sweets which killed a few people, people that wouldn't have died if Xander had done nothing. Anya and Spike who between the two of them have a millenniums worth of death and destruction between them. It just seems that there tons of actual conflict (Emotional Conflict not actual violence because in all honesty the 4 or 5 non-punches that Buffy and Willow threw just seemed a little weird) the story line could have brought up, but instead it showed the I don't know long awaited fight between Willow and Buffy, I don't know because I didn't watch the show when it first aired so I don't know if that was a real thing people were buzzing about.

** Anya pretty much altered reality when Cordelia wished that Buffy had never come to SunnyDale, changing who knows how many lives, how many different people lived and died, why was it never brought up that Willow simply wish Tara back from the dead or if that didn't work because of some contrived rule about not bring back natural deaths, wish for a scenario that means it never happened to begin with, like Warren was not allowed to buy a gun, or Warren was blinded in his fight with Buffy, there are hundreds of ways to have fixed it. I mean it would've really taken the impact of Tara's death away, but it still would've shown that Willow has a very dark side that she needs to control, without all the angst that carried over to Season 7. It just seemed like the Scoobies were collectively carrying a giant {{Idiot Ball}}.
*** I don't think Warren being blinded and thus having worse aim would do much to save Tara from a wild and random shot.

********* Sorry, but you are pulling all of that out of your ass.
Here is the exact conversation:

* How was Spike able to enter the Trio's lair without being invited? The episode even makes of point of Spike's badass enterance with him kicking down the door to the outside. It was previsously stated that at the time, they were literally in one of their mother's basements, which counts as part of the house. And even if one of their parents had invited Spike in for some reason, wouldn't he have come in through the upstairs door?

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**** Within the realms of fiction what Warren attempted was sufficiently gray that nearly everybody instantly forgave Johnathan and Andrew because it was perfectly plausible that they DIDN'T know what they were doing. To say nothing of numerous other times people have been robbed of their free will, Xander's love spell, Willow's season 4 Vengeance Spell, the monks making Dawn out of no where and Angel erasing his son just off the top of my head and at most they get a "I understand why you did that, naughty, naughty", hell Tara nearly kills them all once trying to hide a demon that's not in them which is taking away their ability to say 'no' and considering at this point they had a friendly vampire, a werewolf, an ex-vengeance demon and frenemy Spike she really didn't have a legit reason to be afraid they would reject her for being part demon. The real problem here isn't that Willow wasn't off the rails and doing some bad things, it's that they were leaping down her throat for very simple and little things and prior to this there weren't a lot of hints that magic was inherently bad (in fact between Tara and Willow it seemed to be a metaphor for. . .bonding.) the danger was all in not being able to control your power and in tapping into dark powers. Nothing excuses Willow mind wiping Tara or anybody else but when the grand fall out of Spike trying to kill them multiple times was Xander being rude to him, Anya bringing Vamp Willow over didn't stop her from going to the prom and Xander. . .we all love Xander but he screws up a lot and rarely gets more than a stern look. They could have handled Willow better on nearly every level.

****** The difference here is that Willow was locked into her emotional state by the dark magic she'd absorbed. She wouldn't ever stop, she went from Warren (which even the Scoobies weren't against, their protests were soley on what it would mean for Willow to committ murder and Xander and Dawn were firmly on the kill Warren train), to trying to kill Johnathon and Andrew, whom she knew had been in prison and had nothing to do with Tara's murder, to anyone standing in her way (Buffy, Giles, Anya, Xander) and anyone who showed up in front of her (Dawn). Willow tried to kill Dawn, who wasn't a threat and was just talking to her, even mocking Tara's death while doing it. Willow was long past reason and had no chance of recovering until the dark magic lost it's hold (Giles planned to take her to the coven so they could remove it from her or, failing that, dose her with white magic and hope it would let her tap back into her other emotions).

** I know that I along with many fans were cheering Willow on in killing Johnathan and Andrew. That's like GoodIsNotSoft rule eight: they're evil, they're dangerous, stop them, cold if need be. That's on the one hand. On the other hand there was a line about killing in ''Film/BatmanForever'' about killing only makes the anger grow. Take into account the view of ThouShaltNotKillMuggles with the fear being addressed in both mediums being IfYouKillHimYouWillBecomeJustLikeHim (and if you like DoesntLikeGuns as well,) Series/{{Angel}} at times being almost a [[JustForPun Vampire Bat]] and the comics in particular having a thing for Batman (numerous references, a Batman style cover,) I don't know if Joss or the writers were taking their cues from Batman but it's perhaps another way to look at it.

*** It's funny you brought up Willow still hurting from Tara's death. It might be worth asking if those who were cheering her on, like I admit I was, would feel any different if they were killed, or feel any different now. For me I suppose I feel the same way as I did with Faith, or Spike. Should they have been killed at the time they were at their worst? No question, I think most of us would have thought so. Now? No, absolutely not. They had both become really good, nice people. They had an integral role in aiding Buffy, numerous times. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And they had some of the funniest lines and scenes.]] But getting back to Warren, you're saying he's TheCorrupter? Yeah they really took that path with him didn't they? You think Andrew and Johnathan wouldn't have brought up raping and killing women without him? Not saying I don't agree, and sure it was probably sarcasm or all on Warren or whatever, but humor me.

*** “The whole her being in heaven and at peace thing, well if she hadn't been brought back she would have a lot more company up there, and I think she would be a little pissed to know that she took a swan dive through the portal of doom just so her friends and family could die 5 months later.” That’s assuming that people in heaven have some sort of consciousness of who the other people there are. If I get things right, souls does not have faces or bodies for that matter, they’re something very abstract that go to a very incompressible plane of existence, so probably is not like she has wings and playing the harpy in a cloud when she sees Xander and Willow and the rest entering some golden door.

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* Why couldn't Anya make a wish to her Vengeance Demon friend for ''her'' to fulfill for Anya?
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** That movie [[CanonDiscontinuity didn't happen]]. I mean it literally didn't happen in-universe. There was no Merrick, that whole movie can be disregarded. The series used JossWhedon's original script as canon, rather than the film that was produced. To make this difference perfectly clear to the viewers, in season one it's repeatedly stated that Buffy was expelled from her last school for burning down the gym. Ergo, no movie. About the asylum specifically, the impression one gets is that a few weeks or so after Buffy learned about being the Slayer, she told her parents about it, which got her committed. She stopped talking about vampires, was released, her parents tried to forget it ever happened, and Buffy went on slaying in secret. Then she burned down the school gym, was expelled, and tried to give up her responsibilities as Slayer by moving to Sunnydale. Cue season one, episode one.