She sticks her knife in one of them, and somehow destroys the other (obviously he falls to pieces when she hits him). Then she falls unconscious.
She sticks her knife in one. Then she wriggles free while it's writhing in agony, and jumps (in mid-air) onto the other one's back. She covers its eyes, and since it can't see anything, it crashes into the ground.
She hits the one that just crashed, but only hurts her hand. But then she spots the one she stabbed in the eye has recovered, and is swooping down on her at full speed. She says her witty banter (she's obviously learned more than she'd admit from Buffy) and does a standing jump five metres into the air. The two gargoyles collide with each other in the place she was standing a moment earlier, and both crumble into gravel. Then she lands, says 'ow', and collapses unconscious. She's already covered in blood and bruises, I don't think there's anything supernatural involved with that part.
Curiously, he can't do it himself.
Supposedly, Gigi is the leader and he's just her faithful minion. While we know and he knows who's really in charge, he doesn't want to break her illusions just yet, so he defers to her.
But today the influence of aristocratic society on politics, economics and culture is next-to-nonexistent, so the metaphor works only as a requisite element of storytelling
That could be the point. People like Gigi are an anachronistic relic of older times when we still believed that certain people were born into an elite and deserved to hold power over the rest of us. Now, most of us only hold contempt for such people. But if Slayers=the aristocracy, should we feel the same contempt for Buffy and co? Are they also a relic of the past?
many people presumed that Faith wasn't going to kill Gigi and that she agreed to work for Giles only to prevent the murder of a fellow slayer.
Really? I always assumed that she took the mission willingly - but without thinking through the implications carefully enough - and strongly suspected she'd have second thoughts when she actually came face-to-face with Gigi. It's not worked out exactly how I imagined, but it's somewhere along those lines...
She has killed the first gargoyle with her knife and nobody mentions it. Should we draw a conclusion that Roden knows it and is now playing Faith in hope she'll lead him to her boss?
Could be. I assume that Gigi, if she noticed the knife at all (maybe it was buried under the rubble of the dead gargoyles?) would just assume that Faith's a Slayer so always goes armed. She certainly doesn't think that Faith planned to use the weapon on *her*. Roden might not be so easily fooled, but he's not going to openly go against Gigi's wishes just yet.
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She sticks her knife in one of them, and somehow destroys the other (obviously he falls to pieces when she hits him). Then she falls unconscious.
She sticks her knife in one. Then she wriggles free while it's writhing in agony, and jumps (in mid-air) onto the other one's back. She covers its eyes, and since it can't see anything, it crashes into the ground.
She hits the one that just crashed, but only hurts her hand. But then she spots the one she stabbed in the eye has recovered, and is swooping down on her at full speed. She says her witty banter (she's obviously learned more than she'd admit from Buffy) and does a standing jump five metres into the air. The two gargoyles collide with each other in the place she was standing a moment earlier, and both crumble into gravel. Then she lands, says 'ow', and collapses unconscious. She's already covered in blood and bruises, I don't think there's anything supernatural involved with that part.
Curiously, he can't do it himself.
Supposedly, Gigi is the leader and he's just her faithful minion. While we know and he knows who's really in charge, he doesn't want to break her illusions just yet, so he defers to her.
But today the influence of aristocratic society on politics, economics and culture is next-to-nonexistent, so the metaphor works only as a requisite element of storytelling
That could be the point. People like Gigi are an anachronistic relic of older times when we still believed that certain people were born into an elite and deserved to hold power over the rest of us. Now, most of us only hold contempt for such people. But if Slayers=the aristocracy, should we feel the same contempt for Buffy and co? Are they also a relic of the past?
many people presumed that Faith wasn't going to kill Gigi and that she agreed to work for Giles only to prevent the murder of a fellow slayer.
Really? I always assumed that she took the mission willingly - but without thinking through the implications carefully enough - and strongly suspected she'd have second thoughts when she actually came face-to-face with Gigi. It's not worked out exactly how I imagined, but it's somewhere along those lines...
She has killed the first gargoyle with her knife and nobody mentions it. Should we draw a conclusion that Roden knows it and is now playing Faith in hope she'll lead him to her boss?
Could be. I assume that Gigi, if she noticed the knife at all (maybe it was buried under the rubble of the dead gargoyles?) would just assume that Faith's a Slayer so always goes armed. She certainly doesn't think that Faith planned to use the weapon on *her*. Roden might not be so easily fooled, but he's not going to openly go against Gigi's wishes just yet.