I can see a Season One Giles trying to build a relationship with Buffy because there's a precedent for it with previous Watchers, and because he's beginning to genuinely care about her.

This is true. I've been rewatching since the end of Season 7. I am angrier about their relationship in S7 now than I was when it happened.

Yeah. It made me nostalgic for earlier seasons.

Live journal ate my post. Argh.I exaggerate...it's up there. Just momentary weirdness.

Deena, I haven't edited a word. But yes, the clue was there; the fact that Ethan honestly can't remember any of what "Buffy" is claiming happened.

I absolutely LOVE the chemistry experiment exchange between Willow and Lex. That's really brilliant.

Thank you! It felt natural as I was writing it, so I had an idea it was good, but it's nice to have that confirmed. I'm thinking that they might get to bond over chemistry or computers at some later stage.

I need somebody with some pretty extensive knowledge of "Batman" comic canon to tell me something. How big of a secret was Batman's affair with Catwoman? A real secret? Or the Rock Hudson kind where everybody knows and nobody's talking. It's hard to explain but I need to know for my last scene. And don't be afraid to give me the full geek answer with an issue number and stuff, cause I think it's in character. Thanks.(the things I learn for fanfic.)

Holy Whiligigs, Batman! The confusing world of Bat-Canon.

Thanks, Daniel. I'll look at it in a bit...it's still a little early for that right now. I love the hivemind though.

The important passages:

The Jeph Loeb/Tim Sale LONG HALLOWEEN/DARK VICTORY opus wasn't tied to mainstream continuity, allowing them the leeway to kill Year One-era characters (like Lieutenant Flass, who survived into the present in the core series' wedding of Jim Gordon and Sarah Essen) and portray a romantic relationship between Selina Kyle and Bruce Wayne that post-Crisis continuity had prohibited. The revised history had declared that Catwoman had never been captured and that Selina had never met Bruce or Alfred (BATMAN #499 and others). That said, the aforementioned Ed Brubaker has included the Bruce-Selina romance as canon, anyway (in places like BATMAN #600, CATWOMAN (current) #10 and CATWOMAN SECRET FILES #1).

That same issue of SECRET FILES also officially banished a Catwoman story (ACTION COMICS WEEKLY #s 611-614) that has long been regarded as non-canon. The episode had killed off Selina's pal, Holly (alive and well in the current series), but the detail that threw everyone into an uproar was a scene in which Catwoman threw two security guards from a skyscraper window to their deaths in order to frame Holly's killer for the murders. Even setting aside Catwoman's aversion to killing, the sequence didn't make a whole lot of sense.

Batman: Year One indicated that the pre-Catwoman Selina Kyle had been a prostitute, a development that seemed a bit too adult for a character still being marketed to children. Perhaps in acknowledgment of this, DC has shied away from that characterization since Zero Hour. 1994's CATWOMAN #0, for instance, established that the young Selina had become wealthy as a cat burglar and that the hooker persona had been a subsequent ruse to separate potential customers from their cash the moment they were alone.

That's great...I made a note. But I also need a little bit of a primer or "Cliff's notes" or something, cause I haven't read a comic in fifteen years. (Y'all are gonna throw me a telethon now, right?) It doesn't seem possible.