Re: Rewrite Season 6 - Dan and Spoilers

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--- In buffywantswillow@y..., danspector@w... wrote:

> BTW, if Giles is so freaked by Willow's magic, and convinced she's
> about to go psycho as this scene suggests by the end, why does he
> leave? Okay, Buffy needs space, but according to his reaction here,
> he seems to think Willow's on the edge of cracking and needs a tight
> rein. Instead he leaves, right after she blows another spell...oh,
> who needs character consistency, right?

Man O Man, this is SOOO glaring when you watch the eps in sequence and 
in one sitting. It's so bad that I'm tempted to believe that ASH's 
desire to depart was a sudden thing, even though I know it wasn't. 
::sigh:: ME coulda and shoulda done so much better by Giles.

speaking of Flooded....


I made that smartass comment about the M'Fashnik demon and Giles 
shooting down Will's suggestion to do a locator spell, but it's 
interesting to note the story structure of Flooded in light of later 
events. When the Scoobs determined which demon it was that had robbed 
the bank, Giles was rather calm about it. He'd heard of the demon, 
knew of its MO, Buffy could take it out, no big whup. What he was 
REALLY concerned about was who was controlling the demon. Who had that 
sort of power? Indeed, as soon as he asked this (end of Act II), we 
cut immediately to our very first visitation with the trio.

Thus, determining who summoned M'Fashnik should have been of highest 
priority. At least that's what the script suggests. Moreover, in Act 
IV after M'Fashnik had come into Buffy's home, assaulted Giles, 
attempted to assault Dawn, and wreaked much mayhem, Buffy reiterated 
that they needed to know who summoned the demon. It was at that point 
that Willow suggested the locator spell, Giles shot her a look, and 
then...nothing. The matter is dropped. (I'll have to think on this a 
little more, but I think that started the season-long pattern of Buffy 
& the Scoobs only half-completing their missions-of-the week.)

I've been sore and snarking about that incident all season, but I'm 
convinced now more than ever that Espenson & Petrie were suggesting 
that Giles fucked up in a big way. As Willow sometimes casts spells 
when she shouldn't because she's coming from a place of too much 
emotion and too little rationality, Giles vetoed the rational course of 
action because he was pissed at Willow. Tsk, tsk, Watcherman!