[ SECRET POST #2518 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2518 ⌋

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Comments

[lunabee34]

I didn't find her unlikable, but I do think that the antecedents of her downfall are present from like the first or second season on. It's very Lovecraftian, actually. She always wants access to knowledge and power that's dangerous (the first episode I really noticed it in is "Ted," where her first impulse is to keep parts of the robot. W’s interest in magic and the paranormal does begin as a desire to know more and to use that knowledge to help, to make the world a better place. Increasingly though, her desire for knowledge becomes more narcissistic and disturbing. I’m thinking of the fight she has with Buffy in the season 4 haunted frat house episode. She’s angry with Buffy because she knows this spell that Buffy doesn’t want her to attempt for very practical and sound reasons. Willow counters with something like (to paraphrase) “Who made you boss?” She wants to demonstrate her power for selfish reasons, not necessarily the collective good.

Willow struggling with power and control is interesting. Retconning it into alcoholism was waaaaaaaaaay less interesting to me.

[tabaqui]

And, see, it was never interesting to me because she continually did stuff that was *so* hinky. She always did the big-eye, quivery-lip 'don't you trust me?!' thing, when it had nothing to do with trust, and everything to do with proving she was right. I don't like or trust people like that, and it always irritated me that the Scoobies just shrugged off her crap and never called her on anything.

What she did re: Buffy and heaven and to Tara was the last straw. I was utterly uninterested in anything that character did after that.