DVD Commentary: "Facing the Shadows"

Nobody requested a commentary, but I'm egotistical and like to talk about myself, so I decided to write one on one of my favorite stories, "Facing the Shadows." The original fic without commentary can be found here.

Title: Facing the Shadows [DVD Commentary]
Fandom: Buffy/Angel
Pairings: Faith/Kennedy, mentions of past Willow/Kennedy and Buffy/Immortal
Rating: PG-13
Timeline/Continuity: Futurefic. Spoilers for “Chosen.”
Summary: Years after Willow’s death, Kennedy returns to Sao Paulo with a new lover and a new mission. Written for femslash_minis. mireille719 wanted macaws, cigarettes, and South America. She also didn’t want fluff, and while I’m not 100% sure what this is, Goddess knows it isn’t fluff.

“Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.”-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American poet, 1807--1882
( Facing the Shadows )

Intentional Fallacy: [1] The judging of the meaing or value of a literary work against the external context of the author's stated intentions, deduced purpose, or presumed attitudes. Such a judgment is mistaken from a formalist critical perspective because it mislocates meaning and privileges evidence external to the text.
[2] The dubious critical practice of seeking to decipher a text's meaning by determining the author's intentions. [. . . T]he author s intentions can never be properly determined, but even if they could, a text should in any case only be analysed in its own terms, ignoring any extra-textual information.
[3] A literary term that asserts that the meaning intended by the author of a literary work is not the only, and perhaps not the most important, meaning of the piece.