in 'No Future For You' she's still got quite a light-hearted attitude to all the fancy military hardware It still doesn't explain why the stuff is there in the first place...
'My' Buffy wears the military gear on missions to set a good example to the younger Slayers Oh I get that. It's v. nice and all, but it still seems bizarre, and just un-Buffy-esque. There was always a medieval feel to the Slayer-myth, like the way her weapons are old fashioned (except for the bazooka of course!), and there's also the fact that conviction=power. She never in 7 years worried about armour, not even for the final battle in 'Chosen'. I often thought that maybe she should have, but she's clearly not that sort of girl. Basically it's something very much OOC for me, and I need an actual explanation for why.
She mocked it, but she still wore it. :-) But now we're getting into deep meta-ness. She *never* wore the stuff back when they were dating, but now she folds as easily as can be. The whole point about AYW, about how her life sucks and she's feeling useless, is beautifully summed up in Buffy putting on the kevlar, trying to be the perfect little Black Ops girl that she thinks Riley wants (is she getting a second chance?), but of course Riley already has an army wife. Kevlar='Buffy at her lowest' (pretty much), and actually reminds me of what she says in IWMTLY:
BUFFY: It's just ... I just wanna know that there's gonna be another good one. One that I won't chase away. XANDER: There will be. Promise. He's out there, he could come along any minute. BUFFY: Yeah, and the minute after that I can terrify him with my alarming strength and remarkable self-involvement. XANDER: What? I don't think you're like that. BUFFY: Maybe I could change. You know, I could, I could work harder. I could spend less time slaying, I could laugh at his jokes, I mean, men like that, right, the, the joke-laughing-at?
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It still doesn't explain why the stuff is there in the first place...
'My' Buffy wears the military gear on missions to set a good example to the younger Slayers
Oh I get that. It's v. nice and all, but it still seems bizarre, and just un-Buffy-esque. There was always a medieval feel to the Slayer-myth, like the way her weapons are old fashioned (except for the bazooka of course!), and there's also the fact that conviction=power. She never in 7 years worried about armour, not even for the final battle in 'Chosen'. I often thought that maybe she should have, but she's clearly not that sort of girl. Basically it's something very much OOC for me, and I need an actual explanation for why.
She mocked it, but she still wore it. :-)
But now we're getting into deep meta-ness. She *never* wore the stuff back when they were dating, but now she folds as easily as can be. The whole point about AYW, about how her life sucks and she's feeling useless, is beautifully summed up in Buffy putting on the kevlar, trying to be the perfect little Black Ops girl that she thinks Riley wants (is she getting a second chance?), but of course Riley already has an army wife. Kevlar='Buffy at her lowest' (pretty much), and actually reminds me of what she says in IWMTLY:
BUFFY: It's just ... I just wanna know that there's gonna be another good one. One that I won't chase away.
XANDER: There will be. Promise. He's out there, he could come along any minute.
BUFFY: Yeah, and the minute after that I can terrify him with my alarming strength and remarkable self-involvement.
XANDER: What? I don't think you're like that.
BUFFY: Maybe I could change. You know, I could, I could work harder. I could spend less time slaying, I could laugh at his jokes, I mean, men like that, right, the, the joke-laughing-at?