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Date Posted: 17:27:40 10/26/05 Wed
Author: Sunshine
Subject: Re: No need to get all researchy
In reply to: Sophist 's message, "No need to get all researchy" on 16:00:08 10/26/05 Wed

You make some good points. I am new to the Buffyverse (Oct 2004) and I only recently have been posting so my opinions are somewhat immature. When I said I would need to do research, that was not a petulant response but rather the way I go about determing the value of a statement. My academic training was in physics and history and in both, research is important, either conducting an experiment or going to the original sources. Maybe I am guilty of hindsight posing as foresight as it seems that viewing the whole of the Buffyverse archives would lead one to the belief that "magic has consequences" is a paradigm. Or maybe, one could say that the idea was always there but was not yet explicitly stated. I remember when I first watched "Spin the Bottle" that when Lorne said he had a foolproof spell, my immediate reaction was "Oh, this is going to end badly". I guess I retroconned this belief to season 6. I consider BtVS a very moral and sophisticated show and the idea of actions having consequences seemed very pervasive. Often the consequences did not manifest in the same episode as the action, sometimes not even in the same season, but it seemed so refreshing from the normal TV that I internalized it as one of the prime directives of the Buffyverse.

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