Post by stargazer1682 on Oct 9, 2018 23:42:03 GMT
So to speak?
Every time I re-watch Buffy, Forrest is one of the characters I least look forward to seeing again. He's alright when he's Riley's friend and second in command, but when he starts becoming jealous of Buffy he becomes more two-dimensional and insufferable. Watching "Goodbye, Iowa" right now, after Forrest jumps to the conclusion that Buffy must have staked Maggie; I can't help but think his fate of becoming another hybrid experiment and being killed is too easy. For one thing it just continues his course as a flat character, whose sole purpose becomes to personally antagonize Riley. More than that though, I feel like it'd be much more satisfying if there were more of a reckoning for Forrest; being forced to face the error of following Maggie and his own decisions. Even if it's just being disgraced and court-martialed, if not owning that truth and turning his life around and atone. The way it happened, he still feels completely justified and dies, which just seems anticlimactic to me.
Every time I re-watch Buffy, Forrest is one of the characters I least look forward to seeing again. He's alright when he's Riley's friend and second in command, but when he starts becoming jealous of Buffy he becomes more two-dimensional and insufferable. Watching "Goodbye, Iowa" right now, after Forrest jumps to the conclusion that Buffy must have staked Maggie; I can't help but think his fate of becoming another hybrid experiment and being killed is too easy. For one thing it just continues his course as a flat character, whose sole purpose becomes to personally antagonize Riley. More than that though, I feel like it'd be much more satisfying if there were more of a reckoning for Forrest; being forced to face the error of following Maggie and his own decisions. Even if it's just being disgraced and court-martialed, if not owning that truth and turning his life around and atone. The way it happened, he still feels completely justified and dies, which just seems anticlimactic to me.
