'Get It Done'
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And isn't physical location different from death? Every time anyone's actually been to a hell dimension, they've been alive.
Also? Their bodies were sucked in with them. Buffy's lifeless body very much stayed here.
Which was where Willow really screwed up. She forgot that Buffy's body was STILL IN THE COFFIN, and that her spell would bury Buffy alive.
Which was where Willow really screwed up. She forgot that Buffy's body was STILL IN THE COFFIN, and that her spell would bury Buffy alive.
Well, I think they planned on digging her up, but those pesky demon bikers interrupted. Who knows - maybe the part of the spell that didn't get finished would have gotten her out of the ground for them.
shrugs
And isn't physical location different from death? Every time anyone's actually been to a hell dimension,they've been alive.
Oh, I'm with you. But I'm saying that it wasn't unreasonable for her to think that Buffy was in hell.
Oh, I'm with you. But I'm saying that it wasn't unreasonable for her to think that Buffy was in hell.
No. It was unreasonable of her to not question other possibilities as well, particularly since this time, there was a body. She had the whole freakin' summer, and Anya is the one who tracked down the urn on e-bay. I'm just sayin'... Willow acted rashly, without thinking things through to her usual Willowy level, in part, because she wanted to exert the power necessary to raise the dead. In part. I know she had altruistic, and selfish (not in the power-sense, but 'selfish' in the sense of scared to death and in mourning) reasons to raise Buffy, too. But she didn't think it all out, because she didn't want to find out anything that might have stopped her. It's exactly why she didn't tell Giles, Spike and Dawn, and why she didn't let Tara and the others know that the spell required the blood of an innocent.
Well, I think they planned on digging her up...
Yeah, I seem to remember them carrying shovels, but if I were Buffy, I'd be really pissed that they didn't dig me up before starting the spell.
I got the feeling from Xander's lines that they really didn't think about her reanimating in her coffin. He seemed surprised, and horrified, that she had.
I got the feeling from Xander's lines that they really didn't think about her reanimating in her coffin.
Right, which means Willow didn't really think it all the way through, because Xander was just following her lead.
Remember too that the spell was interrupted before Willow could complete it. Didn't Monkey'sPaw!Joyce get out of her grave without the need for digging?
But I'm saying that it wasn't unreasonable for her to think that Buffy was in hell.
And, don't forget, they all had proof that Hell dimensions existed. Heaven? Not so much.
Remember too that the spell was interrupted before Willow could complete it. Didn't Monkey'sPaw!Joyce get out of her grave without the need for digging?
This is what I was just saying.
I don't think we saw enough of Monkey Paw!Joyce to know whether she dug her own way out or not.
shudder