Re: A Second Look: BTVS S7D5

On Apr 30, 8:21 pm, mariposas rand mair fheal <mair_fh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> In article
<aa841979-412e-41c3-afce-eeaa09ad1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>  Arbitrar Of Quality <tsm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > He lets her walk away rather than refusing to let the problem be
> > brushed away as nagging.  He's not even taking ruthless Watcher action
> > so much as shrugging and playing along with Wood's plan, which he
> > knows to be equally reckless and blinded by emotion.  My problem is
> > that it really is a choice where it's possible to agree with either of
> > them, and then this episode goes and makes one of the parties conspire
> > to murder someone whom Buffy obviously cares deeply about, while
> > violating the trust she places in him.  I have to agree with those who
> > don't like the ****trayal - I don't buy post-S3 Giles being stupid
> > enough to think that it'll help the situation.
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> it would remove an immediate threat to the potentials

Remove a threat, remove an im****tant ally.

Even if you believe that Buffy can't be trusted with the lives of
people others trust her with, all the more reason for Giles not to
sink to the same level LMPTM.

-AOQ