Why does Giles tell Buffy she can't tell Joyce that she's the Slayer? Or about Angel? Is this 'Watcher's handbook' stuff or does he not trust Joyce?
Joyce isn't the sort of person who'd happily embrace the occult, believe in it, and accept her daughter's role. Also, that would automatically induce a conflict of responsibility between the Parent/Legal guardian and the Watcher. If Joyce doesn't know, she can't interfere. I don't know that he has this worked out in detail. Seems to me he just thinks it would create more complications than it would resolve.
Giles: "Since Angel lost his soul, he's regained his sense of whimsy." Seems that pain and torture are Angelus' outlet for creativity. Since Angel refuses to engage that art, he's duller.
Giles: Yes. Well, that's one of the unpleasant side effects of betrayal. Good line. Poor poor boy. While I don't like Jenny, he did, to some extent, and the progression of their relationship including its end just increases his tragico-romantic perception. I do love his lashing out after. And Buffy's reaction ("Are you trying to get yourself killed?!..."), which annoys me as being so self-centered, is the best way to reach Rupert.
Sometimes I wish this show was "Giles the Vampire Slayer". That would have been a show I'd watch. And I so wish they'd actually do Ripper, although I'm not holding out my breath or anything.
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Date: 2008-05-08 04:27 pm (UTC)Joyce isn't the sort of person who'd happily embrace the occult, believe in it, and accept her daughter's role. Also, that would automatically induce a conflict of responsibility between the Parent/Legal guardian and the Watcher. If Joyce doesn't know, she can't interfere. I don't know that he has this worked out in detail. Seems to me he just thinks it would create more complications than it would resolve.
Giles: "Since Angel lost his soul, he's regained his sense of whimsy."
Seems that pain and torture are Angelus' outlet for creativity. Since Angel refuses to engage that art, he's duller.
Giles: Yes. Well, that's one of the unpleasant side effects of betrayal.
Good line. Poor poor boy.
While I don't like Jenny, he did, to some extent, and the progression of their relationship including its end just increases his tragico-romantic perception. I do love his lashing out after.
And Buffy's reaction ("Are you trying to get yourself killed?!..."), which annoys me as being so self-centered, is the best way to reach Rupert.
Sometimes I wish this show was "Giles the Vampire Slayer".
That would have been a show I'd watch. And I so wish they'd actually do Ripper, although I'm not holding out my breath or anything.