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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2018-12-02 04:36 pm

[ SECRET POST #4351 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4351 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2018-12-03 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
I don't find Willow irredeemable.

But I don't have any problem forgiving her for nearly ending the world. In the course of pursuing her vengeance for Tara, she didn't really hurt very many people at all, except those who deserved it (Warren and Rack). She was stopped before she managed to do much damage.

No, the thing that is so much harder to forgive is what she did to Tara before that - wiping her memory and then (apparently) having sex with her when she KNEW that Tara WOULD NOT have wanted to, had she remembered the fight they were having. That's tantamount to rape, in my opinion, and much harder to forgive.

But I do not feel that she is irredeemable. If Angel is redeemable after torturing and killing hundreds of people, then Willow is redeemable for what she did as well.

(Anonymous) 2018-12-03 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Very much this.

Maybe I also feel much more charitable towards Willow because I never felt like the show was trying to make excuses for her many flaws, she always seemed deliberately Problematic, as opposed to Xander being... Xander.

(Anonymous) 2018-12-03 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Really? Because Xander was awful, but he was also the show’s butt-monkey who was repeatedly smacked down by the other characters and life in general (as he should be), while Willow was beloved by all, to the extent of Buffy’s family preferring Willow to Buffy and Willow somehow managing to have all the best romantic relationships on the show despite being a terrible girlfriend.