Re: Normal Again Mini-Review

[Windsor Williams <windsorw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:19 PM 3/14/02 -0800, danspector@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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[good thoughts snipped]

> And, I'm sorry, but that's a retcon. Joyce was never depicted as being
> unaware of Buffy's troubles--she just couldn't put her finger on what
> was wrong. If Buffy had already confessed about slaying and had been
> locked away for it, Joyce would have been looking for a recurrence of
> Buffy's "delusions". To say that she "forgot"--what parent would
> "forget" why they locked their kid up in a rubber room????--and
> therefore Buffy could joke about "saving the world from vampires and
> Joyce didn't blink, well, that's insane.

[peeking out of the shadows, nervous wave]

Hi, everybody! Thought I'd pitch in on this one briefly.

I'm going to have to recheck the ep on this, but I don't recall Buffy
saying she "came out" as a vampire slayer to her parents and was sent
to the clinic. I got it was more like she started talking about how
she was seeing vampires everywhere...strange and disturbing to be sure,
but not quite the same as "I'm a destined superhero, called to battle
the forces of darkness" that the whole slayer revelation would entail.

Since Buffy says she was let out of the clinic after she stopped talking
about vampires, I expect she never mentioned them to her parents again.
> From their point of view, she just seemed to be getting into more and
more trouble -- no reason to think it had anything to do with vampires,
which OF COURSE are not real. 8-)

Buffy's joke line about "saving the world from vampires" would thus be
a one-time thing, quite some time after the original incidents, and much
easier to understand why Joyce wouldn't connect it to the past.

That's my theory anyway, and I'm sticking to it. 8-)

Windsor
(returning to lurk mode)