"One Bit Shy" <OBS@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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>> Season Seven, Episode 10: "Bring On The Night"
>
> After years of showing Giles to be a different kind of Watcher
> in much the same sense that Buffy was a different kind of
> Slayer, they chose to revert to the original contention between
> Buffy and Giles - and make the new Giles uncompromising to boot.
> Eventually they'll allow Giles to see the light, though I don't
> find it terribly convincing. And, in the meantime, Giles seems
> to forget everything he's learned about Buffy - including how
> good her instincts so often are.
The thing is, Giles is in a situation almost entirely outside of his
(and Buffy's) experience. And he naturally falls back on his
training. EXCEPT when it comes to the Watcher/Slayer relation****p.
A traditional Watcher would have tried to take charge of the
situation, which Giles conspicuously does not do. Instead he
stresses (even overstresses) that Buffy is in charge, even as he
turns more traditional in his other attitudes.
Or in other words, Giles IS still a different kind of Watcher, just
not in exactly the same way as he used to be. And both the
unfamiliarity of the situation, and the change in Giles' status play
an im****tant role in this.
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Michael Ikeda mmikeda@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Telling a statistician not to use sampling is like telling an
astronomer they can't say there is a moon and stars"
Lynne Billard, past president American Statistical Association
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