*happy sigh*

[butterfly]

I love Season Six Buffy. How often is depression so realistically depicted anywhere? You have the false epiphanies, the backsliding, the hopelessness. And then, it does get better. It always does pass - the depression. Doesn't mean it won't come back, but it does go away.

Pay no attention to me. I'll be over here making icons of pretty Season!Six Buffy. She was gorgeous that season (I think she's gorgeous every season, though). And Season Six has some great lighting.

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[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Well, I loved it more than I enjoyed it, though there were many enjoyable moments in it.

The Willow thing... I think that it helped that I didn't trust Willow one bit. She can say it's an addiction all she likes. Doesn't make it true. I always saw it as a power issue and accept for about three episodes, everyone else treated that way, too. And even in those episodes, it's the people who are clueless about magic who are acting like it's an addiction. So I guess I believed that the narrator was unreliable. For me, it was always a power and control issue (as they make clear in S7).

The Xander thing made sense to me, though I'm not sure if I can word it the right way... he loved Anya, that much is definitely true. He was committed to her. Only he proposed when the world was ending and didn't tell his friends that they were engaged for months. In the songs, it seems like the longer they went on, the deeper they went and their last verse ends with "We could really raise the beam in making marriage a hell." And Xander didn't want Anya to regret marrying him.

[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

I think I could have bought the altar thing much more easily if they'd got back together afterwards. Even given Anya's, ahem, vengeful nature, I couldn't understand them breaking up completely just because Xander wasn't ready for marriage. In that episode, I was distraught, and convinced that in a few episodes' time, they'd be back together, even if the wedding wasn't back on. But it seemed understood by everybody that they were broken up, completely broken up, with no prospect for the foreseeable future of ever getting back together again. And they never did, excluding a couple of times they fell into bed that never seemed to lead anywhere. I rather got the impression that the writers wanted to make everyone miserable to fit the mood of the season, and so didn't bother giving the couple a convincing breakup. And of course, come Season 7 both of them are COMPLETELY sidelined in favour of the Peroxide Pair. (I hope you'll forgive me in my complete hatred of S7 Buffy. S6 Buffy's actions I can easily sympathise with.)

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Well, Xander wanted to get back together. ("You left her at the altar but you still wanna date?" - Buffy, Normal Again), but Anya pretty much went all scorned woman.

(Oh, I'd forgive you if you hated S6 Buffy, S2 Xander, Swhatever Whoever. I just probably won't agree with you as I adore Buffy in all her incarnations. And since S7 is the season that pushed Buffy off the pedestal for me, it has a special place in my heart.)

[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

Xander never made any actual effort to get back together with Anya, though. He just showed a vague preference for the idea. I'm pretty sure he could have won her back if he'd tried. Especially post-Selfless.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

S7, it maybe could have happened. Except, when they slept together in Storyteller, Anya was the one that made it sound like a last time. I think that he would have, if she would have, but she wanted to find herself. She didn't want to be Xander's Anya. Just Anya.

:(

[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

I miss her soooo.

*cries*

Re: :(

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

*pets*

She was a great character. She went from all bitter to a loving hero, all without losing her unique personality.