'Sleeper'
This is where we talk about Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No spoilers though?if you post one by accident, an admin will delete it. This thread is NO LONGER NAFDA. Please don't discuss current Angel events here.
I still think it's silly that it was kept a secret for four years, then came up in one conversation and never again, but that's my loathing for loose ends of the un-pointed variety.
On this we agree 100%. I thought it was an excellent bit of continuity that would cause a massive uproar in the fandom and the relationships on the show. Instead it was nothing. And in retrospect it seems like an attempt to pander to long time viewers.
I feel like the show itself was too hard on Buffy and not sufficiently hard on Riley throughout ItW and AYW.
Word. It was... disconcerting, and one of my major beefs with AYW.
Even Buffy herself was not hard on Riley in AYW, which really aggravated me. I guess she was too busy being so hard on herself.
Which is why Buffy needed to catch the helicopter in ITW and then tell Riley that she hopes he has a nice trip to the Central Republic of Where-In-The-Hell.
I feel like the show itself was too hard on Buffy and not sufficiently hard on Riley throughout ItW and AYW.
Well that is a matter of one's pov (whether you identify more with Riley's situation or Buffy's). But I'm not suicidal enough to engage in THAT debate here. :)
Sure, but the show's not called Riley, boyfriend of the Vampire Slayer.
(whether you identify more with Riley's situation or Buffy's)
Hmm. I can't quite feel sorry for Riley. He felt neglected because his girlfriend wasn't as attentive as he'd like -- because her mother had a BRAIN TUMOR??? Too fucking bad. Grow up, honey. Your girlfriend might just be a little preoccupied for a while.
You know, it's possible to sympathize with Riley to an extent and still see that, all pretense of moral relativism aside, the boy was wronger than a wrong thing that's got the wrong answer after taking a wrong turn into Wrongville whilst driving the Wrongwagon.
Which would be the reason that the narrative jars.
Yeah, Plei speaks for me in this case.
Don't get me wrong -- I am the neediest person alive. I understand Riley being a needy greedy boyfriend. And yet blaming Buffy for why he got suckjobs is still wrong.