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Post by stargazer1682 on Feb 24, 2019 22:37:23 GMT
So I was watching After Show Reactions video for the AtS episode "Tomorrow" and I swear this youtube's level of perception borders on a super power. Some of the stuff she picks up on when it's her first time watching any of this has seriously made me wonder if she's actually cheating and has saw or read up on episodes sometimes....
In this case, her observation with Cordelia's conversation with her in the second half of the episode is one I don't remember ever picking up on before; or seen discussed - which is the fact that it's actually a vision of her later conversation with Skip. Literally, what she thinks is the other Cordelia responding to her, is actually fragments of things she later says to Skip, but some of it, in the context of Cordelia essentially talking to herself, is actually taking the later conversation out of context; and leading her to believe that meeting Angel is the best course of action.
So does this mean then, since this was just another one of Cordy's visions, that she was actually see the danger posed by this encounter with Skip; and that it she should have taken it as a warning not to go with him or agree to ascension?
Something else about that scene made me wonder if there might have been more going on; when Cordelia first sees Skip, she asks if she's dying. And so I also wonder if maybe she was in fact dying in that moment and that it was necessary for Cordelia to die in order for Jasmine to take over her body. This might be a deeper explanation for them making Cordelia part demon, if Jasmine and Skip's plan was actually to mask the pain of the visions - since Doyle was part demon too and still felt intense pain from each vision. They didn't want Cordelia to know there was anything wrong and seek out some other solution, so they gave her one that would mask the symptoms until she reached critical mass and in Tomorrow is when she's about to pop; so Skip goes and scoops her up....
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Post by PreachCaleb on Feb 25, 2019 14:27:03 GMT
Yep, unfortunately, I think the pain of the visions was an effective trigger to the danger and urgency of them. Without the pain, she didn't recognize this vision as a threat despite the fact that for every single vision before this one, especially ones about her and her friends, Cordy knew the people were in danger, even if she didn't know what that danger was.
This does pose some interesting questions: were the other Powers aware of Jasmine's plans, and was this their way of trying to warn Cordy?
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Post by stargazer1682 on Feb 25, 2019 15:33:37 GMT
Yep, unfortunately, I think the pain of the visions was an effective trigger to the danger and urgency of them. Without the pain, she didn't recognize this vision as a threat despite the fact that for every single vision before this one, especially ones about her and her friends, Cordy knew the people were in danger, even if she didn't know what that danger was. This does pose some interesting questions: were the other Powers aware of Jasmine's plans, and was this their way of trying to warn Cordy? Someone in a separate discussion on the topic suggested it was a false vision sent by Jasmine, but I'm not sure what the purpose would be, since Cordelia didn't seem to recognize it later; though misconstruing it as a conversation she's having with herself about Angel and making the decision to meet him could have been the intention, I suppose. Assuming for some reason she needed to be in that exact place at that exact time for Skip to intercept her and ascend her; and that he couldn't have just popped up in her living room if she hadn't gone anywhere. I think it stands to reason that it actually was a legitimate vision and perhaps one intended to warn her again accepting the deal Skip was offering; and the tragedy of it is that she misinterpreted it. Such an act in itself is something that they could have explored more of; the idea of the visions not being clear cut and one interpretation sends them one way, while another perspective sends them another way.
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