Terrific! This is everything I loved about Buffy in a nutshell (even if that was sometimes the potential in her story rather than her story itself).
Strangely enough, it's the first couple of paragraphs that really made this one for me - Surprise! Buffy Summers is not built to lead armies! People skills? Ability to communicate? Respect for authority? That’s a big n-o. The only shocker here is that it took them two years to figure it out. One crisis after another, yadda yadda… But this is totally better. Point-and-shoot Buffy. ... and Buffy the Individual makes her comeback, who she is rather than what she stands for, someone who likes to have backup but fights her most important fights alone, who marches to the beat of her own drummer. Love that.
And your characterization of Sehkmet was boss. The Egyptian gods are actually fascinatingly resonant with the Buffyverse, viewed with a squint and the right angle - the resurrection myths, the sex-and-violence, the warrior goddesses.... wonderful.
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2009-05-03 17:13 (UTC)Strangely enough, it's the first couple of paragraphs that really made this one for me - Surprise! Buffy Summers is not built to lead armies! People skills? Ability to communicate? Respect for authority? That’s a big n-o. The only shocker here is that it took them two years to figure it out. One crisis after another, yadda yadda… But this is totally better. Point-and-shoot Buffy. ... and Buffy the Individual makes her comeback, who she is rather than what she stands for, someone who likes to have backup but fights her most important fights alone, who marches to the beat of her own drummer. Love that.
And your characterization of Sehkmet was boss. The Egyptian gods are actually fascinatingly resonant with the Buffyverse, viewed with a squint and the right angle - the resurrection myths, the sex-and-violence, the warrior goddesses.... wonderful.
Adding my voice to the call for a followup!