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| | Slayage, Numbers 15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | In the case of the Buffybot, the tension is between the fantasy image of Buffy and the existing Slayer, and it is clear that the fantasy version is compelling. |
 | | In these cases, the Buffybot seems ever closer to April whose function is to love; here, the Buffybot is the focus of the love that Dawn and Giles, and the others, feel for Buffy; its function is to be loved, and to be compliant in fulfilling that function. |
 | | The dismemberment of the Buffybot is almost contemporaneous with Buffy’s resurrection, during which the reconstruction of Buffy’s decaying physical body marks her return to “real” life, and the Buffybot’s “death” is viewed through Buffy’s blurred vision, so that it becomes part of the “hell” in which Buffy now believes herself to be. |
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