This episode of Buffy was pretty confusing, but I guess that’s how it was written to be. It’s definitely a thinker and something that we all could be experiencing without even realizing it. Could the slayer really just be a figment of Buffy’s imagination? How much of our lives is actually real and how much is what our minds perceive it to be? Did we even watch that episode, or do we just think that we did? This episode (that I'm pretty sure we watched) show us that the things that we create in our minds can sometimes get the best of us. Buffy tries to escape to a life where she isn't a slayer, or to where her life would be right now if she hadn't become the slayer, and she believes in this world so much that her mind convinces her that it's her real life. She used to have visions of past slayers and she chose to become one, so the alternate world in this episode essentially is her life as a normal human being, which--oddly enough--is actually worse without demons, vampires, and 3 nerdy boys toying with her mind.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
"Normal Again"
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Our minds are capable of so many possible things, especially when it comes to imagination. I think that Buffy couldn't really accept her past when she was put in an institute. It's not something you want to remember, but everyone always remembers the worst things in their life if you think about it.
ReplyDeleteBuffy was confused about what was real and what is not. Whenever I try to think of how we are all alive and our creation, I always get a headache and come away more confused.
ReplyDeleteThis episode really shows us the power that our mind has and how it can take over our life. Buffy had two completely different lives and she didn't know which one was real. She had to decide in the end. She still doesn't know which is real and which is in her head.
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