{"id":20182,"date":"2024-08-29T12:26:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=20182"},"modified":"2024-08-29T12:26:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:26:44","slug":"another-buffy-vlogfinally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2024\/08\/29\/another-buffy-vlogfinally\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Buffy vlog(FINALLY!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I figured given the new word limit for blogs I ought to dive back into my routes, yapping endlessly about a TV show no one else has seen that ended over twenty years ago. Buffy The Vampire Slayer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am shocked I haven\u2019t written a blog about Willow Rosenberg yet. So guess what this blog is about.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Willow Rosenberg played by Alyson Hannigan was introduced as Buffy\u2019s goody two shoes best friend. Shy and socially awkward she had very few friends before Buffy, the only one truly being Xander. The comedic relief character for lack of a better word. Throughout the course of the show, Willow discovered her connection to witchcraft which she mixed with her existing knowledge of science. This brought her more out of her shell, and she started to gain a stronger personality away from simply being the nerdy friend. Willow\u2019s first love interest aside from her brief stunt with Xander, was Oz, a short ginger werewolf. I believe he also helped draw out more of Willow\u2019s personality and independence.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Skipping ahead to season four Willow and Oz had broken up, and she was entering college. This is where she meant her second love interest. Tara, the complete opposite of Oz earnestly mirroring an early Willow with a socially awkward and shy attitude. They quickly grew closer with the help of their shared status as witches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Willow’s relationship with Tara grew as it did with magic. After she brings back Buffy from the dead, which we later find out ripped her out of heaven. Her relationship with magic revealed itself in an unhealthy light. We start to see her dependence on it for the first time. Giles confronts her after finding out what she did and she is defiant in taking his warnings, a trait never seen before within Willow. Her dependency on magic quickly wedges a gap between her and Tara. Ultimately leading to the end of their relationship when she uses magic to manipulate Tara\u2019s mind into forgetting an argument.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of Willow\u2019s relationship with magic it was evident to me that it was an allegory for substance abuse even before hearing the writer of the show confirm this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After their break up and almost losing her friendship with Buffy after nearly killing her little sister Dawn, Willow begins to try and get clean from magic. We follow her struggles with not using magic. Eventually she is able to completely stop using magic, being given a very minimal amount of scrutiny at one point but Tara is right there to back her up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They end up getting back together but soon after Tara gets shot and killed by Warren. Willow attempts to bring Tara back but is unable to because her death was inherently human and not by supernatural forces the same way Buffy\u2019s was. This catapults Willow back into her magic addiction. Turning her into Dark Willow. She seeks revenge against Tara\u2019s killers. Killing and skinning Warren, she attempts to kill the other two after not being able to and draining the magic from Giles. She sets out to end the world but is deterred by her friendship with Xander. Giles takes her away and helps her try and heal her relationship with magic. After this she doesn\u2019t use magic for a while, except when her and Kennedy get together but it was her underlying guilt for moving on from Tara and killing Warren that caused her to subconsciously cast a spell that turned her into Warren.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was great to see Willow deal with that anger and guilt. Tara was a huge part of Willow\u2019s story and it was great to see that she still meant something even after she was gone. As well as confronting Jonah and Andrew (the other men Willow tried to kill) with the role that they played, not letting them be blindly redeemed but seeing them show remorse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Seeing the actress for Warren mirror the Actress for Willow\u2019s mannerisms was phenomenal to watch, as well as the way the camera was played with or the moments when they chose to switch out the actors. It was clearly a well thought out decision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This experience does scare Willow away from magic but this time she couldn\u2019t run for long. Due to the circumstances her magic was needed to essentially save the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The ending scene of Willow using magic perfectly contrasts the first appearance of Dark Willow. From\u00a0 pitch black hair with soulless pupils to pristine white hair and her regular eyes. I love the incorporation of her eye color. It almost feels like a symbol of how the magic is not overtaking her, she\u2019s still there behind it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Willow\u2019s character ark was very interesting to me. Because to put a character so widely beloved through so much and shine her in a sort of antagonistic light is so interesting. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I figured given the new word limit for blogs I ought to dive back into my routes, yapping endlessly about a TV show no one else has seen that ended over twenty years ago. Buffy The Vampire Slayer.\u00a0 I am shocked I haven\u2019t written a blog about Willow Rosenberg yet. So guess what this blog … Continue reading “Another Buffy vlog(FINALLY!)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20261,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20182\/revisions\/20261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}