> Season Seven, Episode 17: "Lies My Parents Told Me"
> Writers: David Fury and Drew Goddard
> Director: David Fury
>
> I try to be open to whatever story the writers want to tell, as long
> as itıs done well. This isnıt one of those times. Objectivity be
> damned. I *hate* the story being told, the culmination of the
> wholesale destruction of Gilesıs character thatıs been going on for
> the past two seasons, and no justification could ever make me enjoy
> watching it. When I attempt to step back and analyze more
> objectively, though, itıs also not done well in this case, with his
> irrational mix of impulsiveness and passiveness about the whole thing,
> and the way the assholishness displayed by Wood and Giles forces the
> viewer to take Buffyıs side on a topic that should be morally
> ambiguous. (Meanwhile, doubters like Anya are made to look as selfish
i never took buffys side - she was being an ass
as for giles
it depends on a missing scene at the end
where he states he still wants spike destroyed or he wants spike as an
ally
jrr tolkien did an essay on the battle of maldon
the homecoming of beortnoth beorthelms son
in which he points out the role of the general and the heroic warrior
are actually quite different even though many people confuse them
buffy is forced into the role of general for which she ill suited
and she blunders badly
eventually so badly that she is fired from the job
(and then they appoint a new general who screws up just as much
before abandoning the traditional hierarchy
for a more collabrative heterarchy)
giles is in the difficult position of correctly recognizing the danger
but not having the authority to act on it
while the person with the authority refuses to acknowledge the danger
> One of my goals this time through was to try to make some sense,
> character-wise, out of Caleb, since heıs always confused me. Itıs not
> quite congealing for me beyond a potentially interesting collection of
> traits. As seen in ³Dirty Girls,² Caleb looks down on people.
caleb is one of the most rational people in the show
arf meow arf - everything thing i know i learned
from the collective unconscience of odd bodkins
sacramento - political pigsty of the western world
or a babys arm holding an apple
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