Re: A Second Look: BTVS S7D5

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> On Apr 30, 8:21 pm, mariposas rand mair fheal <mair_fh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > In article 
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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.
> >
> > it would remove an immediate threat to the potentials
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> Remove a threat, remove an im****tant ally.

slayers come and go
the institution remains

unless buffy manages to kill off the institution

> 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.

or for buffy to grow up and make responsible decisions

giles had ceded authority to her
im not sure if he couldve gotten the potentials to walk out with him
and im not sure what safe place he couldve reached with them

theres also the trickle of potentials into sunnydale
which would have to be intercepted and redirected to follow giles

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