(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.
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.
Yep.
Wrong.
YWrongShouldNOTVary in cases such as this.
Because, I gotta say (again), that if Riley were going to human hookers for actual sex, and he tried to blame that on Buffy, he would have gotten a much bigger smackdown.
"I go to hookers because you don't pay enough attention to me....how's your Mom's brain tumor, by the way?"
Uh, I don't think so, Jack. Try fucking yourself.
And, really, as soon as Joyce's immediate health crisis was over Buffy dumped Dawn on Xander and sexed Riley up and down and sideways. It was the fact that she didn't lean on him enough that somehow emasculated him.
It was the fact that she didn't lean on him enough that somehow emasculated him.
Which is pathetic, yo. Plus, that's just the way Buffy operates. Love Buffy, love her quirks.
Hell, yeah.
He loves her quirks and her strength and her dedication? Then don't expect her to change, boyo.
Which is pathetic, yo. Plus, that's just the way Buffy operates. Love Buffy, love her quirks.
Yup. Don't go trying to make her something she's not. Date her for a year, and freak when she acts... like herself?
Oooooooooookay. Right-o.