Maybe it's a bit strong to say that she "represents all of the victims". She represents a human face for the victims. And not all the time, because obviously, when Spike faces off with Robin Wood, Buffy isn't being used to represent Spike's victims. But some of the time.
It's like she said to Angel in Amends: I know what you did, because you did it to me. How can she actually forgives Spike or Faith, for example, (How can we viewers really forgive them) if she doesn't know what she's talking about?
But the thing is that she doesn't know what she's talking about. Or she knows some of it, but not all of it. She tells Angel, "I know everything that you did, because you did it to me." But she doesn't know everything. There's lots of horrible things Angel did to people that he never did to her. She only knows some things.
I remember in "Never Leave Me", Spike starts talking about what he used to do to girls Dawns age, and Buffy looks away. And when I saw that, I thought that if Spike had hurt Dawn, he would be dead. But he didn't hurt Dawn. None of the half-dead teenage girls he did unspeakable things to happened to be the Slayer's little sister. So he's still alive.
And I don't know--I'm not arguing that Buffy should have killed him. Because he became a hero. So surely her mercy was the right decision? But I just don't know.
Buffy gives her forgiveness because she want to do so, but other characters can feel differently and so the viewers.
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It's like she said to Angel in Amends: I know what you did, because you did it to me. How can she actually forgives Spike or Faith, for example, (How can we viewers really forgive them) if she doesn't know what she's talking about?
But the thing is that she doesn't know what she's talking about. Or she knows some of it, but not all of it. She tells Angel, "I know everything that you did, because you did it to me." But she doesn't know everything. There's lots of horrible things Angel did to people that he never did to her. She only knows some things.
I remember in "Never Leave Me", Spike starts talking about what he used to do to girls Dawns age, and Buffy looks away. And when I saw that, I thought that if Spike had hurt Dawn, he would be dead. But he didn't hurt Dawn. None of the half-dead teenage girls he did unspeakable things to happened to be the Slayer's little sister. So he's still alive.
And I don't know--I'm not arguing that Buffy should have killed him. Because he became a hero. So surely her mercy was the right decision? But I just don't know.
Buffy gives her forgiveness because she want to do so, but other characters can feel differently and so the viewers.
I agree. :)