Re: A Second Look: BTVS S7D5

> On Apr 25, 9:57 pm, Arbitrar Of Quality <tsm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote: 

> 
>> 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 it’s done well.  This isn’t one of those times. 
>> Objectivity be damned.  I *hate* the story being told, the
>> culmination of the wholesale destruction of Giles’s character
>> that’s been going on for the past two seasons, and no
>> justification could ever make me enjoy watching it.

We're in YMMV territory now.  I don't see what happens as any sort 
of "destruction" of Giles' character.  Giles is being Giles, just 
Giles in a different situation.

Or to look at it another way:

(begin quote)

GILES: She's a hero, you see. (Giles puts his glasses on) She's not 
like us.
BEN: Us?

Giles suddenly reaches down and puts his hand over Ben's nose and 
mouth, holding them shut. Ben struggles weakly as Giles keeps him 
still. Giles keeps his calm expression throughout.

(end quote)

That's what Giles is doing now, at least in his viewpoint.  Helping 
to get rid of a threat that Buffy won't--can't deal with.

(I also don't see the "stacking the deck" that you refer to 
elsewhere.  I agree with Buffy more that Giles or Wood, but 
everyone involved is partly right and partly wrong and I thought 
that the episode clearly showed that.)

-- 
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