I Literally Cannot Function Properly If I Don't Eat My Little Daily Bread Like A Medieval Peasant

i literally cannot function properly if i don't eat my little daily bread like a medieval peasant

Something about Giles and the way he is defined by his ability to impart knowledge. His fears in Nightmares are not being able to read, being unable to help his Slayer, but also of being lost in the library stacks, of being trapped, lost in his intellect. And then in Something Blue, an episode which foreshadows s6 in the Buffy/Spike relationship and Willow's addiction to magic, he loses his sight, rendering him once more unable to read.

The Slayer slays and the Watcher watches. Giles is trapped in his destiny just as much as Buffy is, almost more so since his destiny is dictated by hers, and his manifested fears reflect that, since they both show him to be defined by that knowledge and rob him of it.

season 3 ep 3 and faith just arrived and i cannot believe xander i swear he's my least favorite character ever

There any way to make the Master like . . . good? Interesting? Anything other then a knockoff Graf Orlok?

Buffy's main arc in S1 is her struggling with growing up - accepting her destiny and therefore her metaphorical adulthood. This is why all the villains are in a state of arrested development - the Master stuck in place like a cork in a bottle, the Anointed held forever as a child. They represent, as vampires do in general at this point in the show, the danger of Buffy never growing up, never accepting adulthood and the transformation that comes with it.

Villains in this show are always metaphorical representations of some struggle Buffy is facing. The problem is that in this pre-Spike&Drusilla era, they are only metaphorical representations, and not, y'know, actual characters. Which is why the Master feels so flat and uninspired compared to the villains of later seasons.

I think the most interesting angle would have been to really dig into the Anointed One and the Master's relationship to him. Perhaps developing a father/son dynamic between them. This would have added humanity to both of them, and also highlighted the parallels between Buffy/Colin and Giles/the Master. The Chosen/Anointed with a Watcher/Master who, in a quasi-paternal way, guides then to a fatal destiny. The Master/Giles parallels are hinted at, but digging into them a little more could have been really interesting.

I genuinely mean this, I hope all 5 of those Supreme Court members who voted Yes have to live their lives getting harassed and are extremely bothered till their last dying breath.

Bother them, make their lives miserable, make them not want to leave their homes.

this is downright dystopian

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