Thanks! And even bigger thanks for describing the fight - in your description it looks much more clearly than on the panels. (Or maybe I got used to written word).
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.
During the party he "read" Faith's aura as very dangerous. But, interestingly, he doesn't mention it to Gigi. Hidden clue or plot hole? :)
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?
Oh, the metaphor is a bit backhanded. :))))
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...
I also assumed that she doesn't plan anything behind Giles' back. But I read posts that insisted that Vaughan's Faith is devolved back to season 4 when she was a killer. Well, it's hard to please all fans! :)
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.
You know, I rewatched the scene after your explanation and noticed an interesting detail: she had two pin-like knives. Gargoyles attack her when she starts to draw the first knife out of her hair with her left hand. When we see her on the next panel, her left hand is empty and there is only one knife in her hair. Obviously she has dropped the first knife and it landed somewhere near Gigi.
Now, Rogen has read Faith's dangerous aura. He has confessed that he organized the party to identify the potential assassin. Should we presume that he hasn't noticed the first knife and for some weird reason has decided that a girl who can easily kill two gargoyles, can't be the assassin in question?
Again I'm not sure if we should dismiss his behavior as a plot hole or question his motives. But - could Roden use Gigi as a bait to frame slayer organization for murder? In this case it's easy to explain why he chose a daughter of wealthy and influential people - because her murder will make the first pages.
But, again, I'm not sure if we should apply RL logic to this fairy-tale world...
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Thanks! And even bigger thanks for describing the fight - in your description it looks much more clearly than on the panels. (Or maybe I got used to written word).
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.
During the party he "read" Faith's aura as very dangerous. But, interestingly, he doesn't mention it to Gigi. Hidden clue or plot hole? :)
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?
Oh, the metaphor is a bit backhanded. :))))
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...
I also assumed that she doesn't plan anything behind Giles' back. But I read posts that insisted that Vaughan's Faith is devolved back to season 4 when she was a killer. Well, it's hard to please all fans! :)
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.
You know, I rewatched the scene after your explanation and noticed an interesting detail: she had two pin-like knives. Gargoyles attack her when she starts to draw the first knife out of her hair with her left hand. When we see her on the next panel, her left hand is empty and there is only one knife in her hair. Obviously she has dropped the first knife and it landed somewhere near Gigi.
Now, Rogen has read Faith's dangerous aura. He has confessed that he organized the party to identify the potential assassin. Should we presume that he hasn't noticed the first knife and for some weird reason has decided that a girl who can easily kill two gargoyles, can't be the assassin in question?
Again I'm not sure if we should dismiss his behavior as a plot hole or question his motives. But - could Roden use Gigi as a bait to frame slayer organization for murder? In this case it's easy to explain why he chose a daughter of wealthy and influential people - because her murder will make the first pages.
But, again, I'm not sure if we should apply RL logic to this fairy-tale world...