30 days of Buffy, Day #21

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Day #01: Favourite season
Day #02: Favourite episode
Day #03: Favourite song used in an episode
Day #04: Favourite female character
Day #05: Least favourite female character
Day #06: Favourite male character
Day #07: Least favourite male character
Day #08: Favourite friendship
Day #09: Favourite romance
Day #10: Least favourite season
Day #11: Least favourite romance
Day #12: Least favourite episode
Day #13: Favourite potential slayer
Day #14: Favourite female villain
Day #15: Favourite male villain
Day #16: Episode you like that everyone else hates - Favourite piece of monologue
Day #17: Character you relate to the most
Day #18: Character who didn’t get enough screen time
Day #19: Character you like that everyone else hates
Day #20: Best Spike-centric episode
Day #21: Best Willow-centric episode
Day #22: Best Xander-centric episode
Day #23: Two characters you wanted to get together that never did
Day #24: Favourite example of 90s special effects
Day #25: Favourite Buffyverse saying
Day #26: Favourite Scooby moment
Day #27: Cutest moment
Day #28: Character you love to hate
Day #29: Episode you hate that everyone else loves
Day #30: What you think made Buffy so great


Day #21: Best Willow-centric episode
"New Moon Rising", easily. It depicts a difficult situation where nobody has done anything wrong, and everyone is sympathetic. It left me feeling that Willow had absolutely made the right choice, despite the fact that it went against my shipping interests. And, as someone online once pointed out, it's about the only time that Willow doesn't try to fix things with magic when faced with a dilemma like this.

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Then again I was in a women's film studies workshop in college watching a key scene from Fried Green Tomatoes (where Izzy repeats a key passage from the book of Ruth to her beloved Ruthie, and they are staring longingly into each other's eyes) and several mature, extremely intelligent (heterosexual) women DID. NOT. GET IT. At all. They thought it was just a scene about "friendship". So maybe one has to be really hip to the cues?

But, still...some people just are not paying attention, is all I can figure. W/T are explicitly paralled with Buffy/Riley that entire season. (I rather prefer Tara as Willow's partner anyway. Oz was cute but there was something of a brother/sister vibe to the pairing IMO.)