[ SECRET POST #2518 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2518 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I mostly disagree, but I admit it's more because the comics make it much more clear. The addiction is a symptom, not the cause. Dark Willow is Willow, not what "the drug" made her.

The show muddles it a lot, and it can be legitimately interpreted as that "magic get's you addicted and you do bad stuff" because certainly it was presented like that in the most heavy handed episodes. Certainly they tried to "cure" it through detox.

But that's the thing, magic is not a drug, the addictive thing is the power it grants. Magic itself is neither good or bad, and that's one of the major points of of the Willow miniseries.

So in retrospective, the treatment of magic as a drug makes sense as the explanation "newbies" would came up with, from an in-universe perspective.

So yeah, if you only count the tv series, it is a mumbo jumbo of mixed messages (so yeah, if magics is drugs, there are good drugs!) but the comics really try to explain the inconsistency by the way Willow interacts with magic.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm glad it's working for you but for me, there's ONLY the TV show, and the comics is just a way of trying to repair a major story fuck up.

But for me, I'm always going to have the picture of her actually going through physical withdrawal at the end of Wrecked. And for that matter, Willow tripping on the ceiling of the "magic crack" house.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I actually like how it's not a straight up retcon, but instead more like treats it more like a miss-diagnoses.

Even if you don't like, or even despise the comics, I STRONGLY suggest you at least pick up the Willow miniseries; Above all, it's a character study about Willow's relationship with magic. Reading the wikipedia pages for the other comics should be enough to put you up to date!

Also Illyria's miniseries is gorgeous as well! and both are just 4 issue limited runs.

But yeah!! I really believe the Willow miniseries would be a great palette cleanser about the whole Willow drugs/magic bad taste.