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shadowscast) wrote2004-05-20 09:34 pm
shadowscast) wrote2004-05-20 09:34 pm
Places my brain goes when I'm editing a fic and watching Season 6.
When I watched "Normal Again" today, it reminded me of a plot bunny that skipped through my brain after I first read the transcript for that ep.
The really disturbing thing about "Normal Again" is that its thesis (all of Sunnydale is Buffy's own delusion) is never disproved. In fact, the last moments of the episode, when we see Buffy all catatonic in the institution, seem to indicate that that reality is the true one.
So I had an fuzzy little idea for a fic, which I don't expect to ever write. The "Normal Again" alternate universe would be the real one. Buffy would wake up for real in the mental institution. A man she'd recognise as Spike would be there too, another patient. And... I picture some kind of escape. Then it kind of morphs into the movie Angel Baby. Um. That is all.
The really disturbing thing about "Normal Again" is that its thesis (all of Sunnydale is Buffy's own delusion) is never disproved. In fact, the last moments of the episode, when we see Buffy all catatonic in the institution, seem to indicate that that reality is the true one.
So I had an fuzzy little idea for a fic, which I don't expect to ever write. The "Normal Again" alternate universe would be the real one. Buffy would wake up for real in the mental institution. A man she'd recognise as Spike would be there too, another patient. And... I picture some kind of escape. Then it kind of morphs into the movie Angel Baby. Um. That is all.
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