I was watching Restless again the other day and i thought i'd bring up the cheese man again!
(Sorry if this has been done before...)
I know Joss says it doesn't really mean anything, but I noticed quite a few things concerning the cheese and i have my own little theories:
(Im gonna run with the whole "The cheese stands alone" lyric...)
1) The cheese is a metaphor for the slayers. The cheese guy holds up two seperate slices of cheese, when the first slayer and buffy are in the desert, and the first slayer has just said "we stand alone". Sort of signifying that they are alone and made of the same thing (if that makes sense). Furthermore, He also says "I've made a little space for the cheese slices" - representing the solitude of the slayer maybe?
2) The play they re-inact is called 'death of a salesman', and the guy with the cheese looks like a bit of a salesman to me. So perhaps he is trying to 'sell' buffy the idea that she should be alone as the slayer, and that she doesn't need her friends.
3) Again, when the cheese guy says "I wear the cheese. It does not wear me." He's sort of saying, i'm in charge of the slayer, she will pay attention to this dream and leave her friends. Also, trying to tell Giles that he is his own man, and he can leave buffy whenever he wants, hence the reason why he doesnt speak to buffy in that particular scene.
4) Buffy clearly has a penchant for cheese, as seen in previous episodes... perhaps the cheese represents a sort of addiction that Buffy has. One she can overcome. Buffy's slayer personality is inherent to her, its part of who she is... but she is still able to mix it with the rest of her life, and she won't let it control who she is.
However, at the end buffy tells the first slayer, "You're not the source of me", which i think is basically telling her, the source of her power comes from a completely different place... sure she has the slayer powers passed down to her. But even if she didn't have them, she'd still be Buffy, and she'd still have her friends.
I feel this whole episode signifies the strengthening of the scoobies, especially after a whole series of each one deviating from one-another, and it also gives us lots of clues for the upcoming seasons!
So if anyone has any other theories on this ep, i'd love to hear them!
Especially concerning Anya's role, the inter-mixing of the dreams, and other such lovely stuff we can get our teeth into!
♥
(Sorry if this has been done before...)
I know Joss says it doesn't really mean anything, but I noticed quite a few things concerning the cheese and i have my own little theories:
(Im gonna run with the whole "The cheese stands alone" lyric...)
1) The cheese is a metaphor for the slayers. The cheese guy holds up two seperate slices of cheese, when the first slayer and buffy are in the desert, and the first slayer has just said "we stand alone". Sort of signifying that they are alone and made of the same thing (if that makes sense). Furthermore, He also says "I've made a little space for the cheese slices" - representing the solitude of the slayer maybe?
2) The play they re-inact is called 'death of a salesman', and the guy with the cheese looks like a bit of a salesman to me. So perhaps he is trying to 'sell' buffy the idea that she should be alone as the slayer, and that she doesn't need her friends.
3) Again, when the cheese guy says "I wear the cheese. It does not wear me." He's sort of saying, i'm in charge of the slayer, she will pay attention to this dream and leave her friends. Also, trying to tell Giles that he is his own man, and he can leave buffy whenever he wants, hence the reason why he doesnt speak to buffy in that particular scene.
4) Buffy clearly has a penchant for cheese, as seen in previous episodes... perhaps the cheese represents a sort of addiction that Buffy has. One she can overcome. Buffy's slayer personality is inherent to her, its part of who she is... but she is still able to mix it with the rest of her life, and she won't let it control who she is.
However, at the end buffy tells the first slayer, "You're not the source of me", which i think is basically telling her, the source of her power comes from a completely different place... sure she has the slayer powers passed down to her. But even if she didn't have them, she'd still be Buffy, and she'd still have her friends.
I feel this whole episode signifies the strengthening of the scoobies, especially after a whole series of each one deviating from one-another, and it also gives us lots of clues for the upcoming seasons!
So if anyone has any other theories on this ep, i'd love to hear them!
Especially concerning Anya's role, the inter-mixing of the dreams, and other such lovely stuff we can get our teeth into!
♥
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