I'm still very uneasy about Buffy involving other persons As is Buffy, having seen what it lead to, and as are the comics.
Having said that, however in character Spike was being the question is whether you felt uneasy about Dawn hanging out with and being influenced by his soulessness. The show did but as I recall a section of the audience seemed to think it was cute. Giles never sent Buffy to rob banks but he sanctioned all her other legal activities, admits to his own little job on the council headquarters in Bring on the Night and there are other crimes. Killing people for one. But what would make me as a parent (and Joyce as a parent did express this) uneasy was that Giles was a representative of a system that used young girls as instruments in their war, offering them neither renumeration nor respite and effectively blackmailing them into their duty with the argument that they either did it or let the world go to hell. The new slayer troops are genuinely voluntary, the girls well provided for and there's no reason to believe that they can't take home leave if they have family.
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Date: 2008-02-10 09:25 pm (UTC)As is Buffy, having seen what it lead to, and as are the comics.
Having said that, however in character Spike was being the question is whether you felt uneasy about Dawn hanging out with and being influenced by his soulessness. The show did but as I recall a section of the audience seemed to think it was cute. Giles never sent Buffy to rob banks but he sanctioned all her other legal activities, admits to his own little job on the council headquarters in Bring on the Night and there are other crimes. Killing people for one. But what would make me as a parent (and Joyce as a parent did express this) uneasy was that Giles was a representative of a system that used young girls as instruments in their war, offering them neither renumeration nor respite and effectively blackmailing them into their duty with the argument that they either did it or let the world go to hell. The new slayer troops are genuinely voluntary, the girls well provided for and there's no reason to believe that they can't take home leave if they have family.