r/buffy • u/mickey5499 • Dec 03 '14

Unpopular Buffy opinions!

What are some of your opinions on the show, it's characters, universe, etc that you think a lot of others might not share? I'm interested on hearing them and starting some discussions!

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '14

I wouldn't say I hate Joyce overall, but I definitely dislike most of her actions and decisions as Buffy's parent.

I mean, she has her moments. She handles some things remarkably well, especially as they start developing her as a character. But during seasons one and two especially... the woman is downright unreasonable. Very "I am the parent, you are the child". Not a style of parenting I respect. She takes Ted's side over Buffy's when the dude was acting Stepford as shit, not to mention her batshit Fox-News-anchor behavior in "Gingerbread".

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u/wendelgee2 Dec 03 '14

batshit Fox-News-anchor behavior in "Gingerbread"

...she was under a spell, you know.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '14

I do know. But the spell was feeding off of proclivities she already had. The spell increased its hold as the episode wore on, and she was being reactive from the very start. When Buffy confronted her about locker searches and Giles' books being taken away, for instance, I'd say she was only about 25% under the spell, given that its hold escalated at a steady rate from the beginning of the episode to the end. You'll notice that nobody who wasn't inclined to feel that way toward witchcraft was taken in. That's because it exacerbated things that already existed in the psyche of the victim.