Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fanfiction Spike Is Sick Normal Again
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- "No, none of that'due south real, none of it. You lot're in a mental institution. You've been with us now for 6 years. Do you remember?"
- ―Dr. Berris[src]
Buffy Summers was an illusory version of the original Buffy, stuck in a earth where she was really in a mental hospital as a patient with schizophrenia.[1]
Biography
- "Buffy's delusions are multi-layered. She believes she's some blazon of hero."
- ―Dr. Berris[src]
Buffy had a glimpse of this magically constructed illusion when she was stabbed past a skewer from a Glarghk Guhl Kashmas'nik demon, summoned by the Trio against her. The injected venom gave her recurring visions of her handling, suggesting that her six years every bit the Slayer in Sunnydale were just hallucinations office of her mirage.[1]
According to this globe, Buffy had been a patient in an inpatient mental health facility for the previous half dozen years, when she was diagnosed with a form of schizophrenia later on claiming to see vampires. Her mother Joyce was still live and still married to Buffy's begetter Hank.[1]
Buffy with her doc and parents.
Her time in heaven after her death was explained every bit her having a temporary recovery from her condition the previous summer. Her dr., Raymond Berris, theorized that Dawn's sudden creation was the outcome of Buffy needing a familial bond after Joyce's death within her mirage, just that the fantasy world Buffy had created was then no longer as satisfying to her as it once was, hence the inadequacy of the Trio compared to previous villains and her visions of the reality of the asylum.[1]
Joyce pleaded with Buffy to accept the "reality" of the asylum and reject the "fantasy" of Sunnydale, simply in the stop Buffy choose the tougher path of bearing the burden of beingness the Slayer. lapsing back into a catatonic state, much to her parents' distress.[1]
Backside the scenes
- She was portrayed past Sarah Michelle Gellar.
- In his audio commentaries for "Normal Again," the director Rick Rosenthal commented that the episode's ending is intentionally ambiguous, leaving it to the viewer to make up one's mind whether it was real or not.
- On the theory that "Normal Again" revealed Buffy'southward bodily world, Joss Whedon commented: "How important information technology is in the scheme of the Buffy narrative is really upwardly to the person watching. If they decide that the unabridged thing is all playing out in some crazy person'due south head, well, the joke of the thing to us was it is, and that crazy person is me. It was kind of the ultimate postmodern look at the concept of a writer writing a evidence, which is not the sort of thing we usually do on the show. The testify had merit in itself because it did raise the question, 'How can you alive in this world and be sane?'. But at the same time the idea tickled me very much and nosotros played on it a little bit, 'How come her piffling sis is taller than her?', 'What was Adam's plan?'. Nosotros played on the crazy things nosotros came upwards with time and time again, to make this fantasy show work and called them into question the way any normal person would. But ultimately the entire series takes place in the heed of a lunatic locked upward somewhere in Los Angeles, if that's what the viewer wants. Personally, I think it really happened."[2]
- Marti Noxon, in turn, was more direct in denying this theory: "Information technology was a simulated out; we were having some fun with the audience. I don't want to denigrate what the whole show has meant. If Buffy's not empowered so what are we saying? If Buffy's crazy, then there is no girl ability; information technology's all fantasy. And really the whole show stands for the opposite of that, which is that it isn't merely a fantasy. At that place should be girls that can boot ass. So I'd be really sad if we made that statement at the terminate. That's why it'southward but somewhere in the heart saying 'Wouldn't information technology be funny if...?' or 'Wouldn't this be sad or tragic if...?' In my feeling, and I believe in Joss' every bit well that's not the reality of the show. It was just a tease and a trick."[three]
- Similarly, in 2011, Gellar invitee starred on her one-time soap opera All My Children as a well dressed, coiffurred and otherwise coherent young woman who had been brought in for psychiatric evaluation for claiming to encounter vampires.
- At ComicCon 2013, while speaking about this episode, Whedon mentioned that, during his time writing Astonishing X-Men, he envisioned Cyclops, whose real name is Scott Summers, making a reference to a female cousin of his who had been sent to a mental institution for assertive she was a demon hunter. However, he could not find an appropriate identify in the storyline to fit it in, and therefore it was never featured.[four]
Appearances
- "Normal Over again" (Simply in visions)
References
Source: https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Buffy_Summers_(Normal_Again)
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