I'll buy that there are story reasons to justify all of it - and I'm sure there are - but as you say, that doesn't make the problem any less not there.
whether he doesn't realise it and thinks this is an ideal, as a result of the rather juvenile "never trust anyone who looks over thirty or organisations of more than four people" attitudes that crept into late Buffy and Angel.
I actually realized on a recent reviewing of the Nightmare on Elm Street series that this philosophy has been part of Buffy from the beginning - the Sunnydale amnesia is essentially the same atttitude of all the aduts in Freddy Krueger's universe, of ignore it and insist that it doesn't exist, and it'll go away. That adults are evil, or well-meaning but clownish, and the kids are the only ones who know what's what, is a horror-movie standard.
What worries me most about this current plotline, actually, even more than the feminist issues (which I don't actually hold out a lot of faith for being corrected) is that I can also easily see this possiblity of a cringe-worthy direction of political metaphor, considering that we have an evil general trying to take down "that bitch," and the Slayer "troops" seem already primed for being caught in a larger leadership crossfire. And considering how the political metaphors panned out in S7 - one overwhelming suicide strike equals mission accomplished!! - I'm not exactly chomping at the bit to see that one.
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whether he doesn't realise it and thinks this is an ideal, as a result of the rather juvenile "never trust anyone who looks over thirty or organisations of more than four people" attitudes that crept into late Buffy and Angel.
I actually realized on a recent reviewing of the Nightmare on Elm Street series that this philosophy has been part of Buffy from the beginning - the Sunnydale amnesia is essentially the same atttitude of all the aduts in Freddy Krueger's universe, of ignore it and insist that it doesn't exist, and it'll go away. That adults are evil, or well-meaning but clownish, and the kids are the only ones who know what's what, is a horror-movie standard.
What worries me most about this current plotline, actually, even more than the feminist issues (which I don't actually hold out a lot of faith for being corrected) is that I can also easily see this possiblity of a cringe-worthy direction of political metaphor, considering that we have an evil general trying to take down "that bitch," and the Slayer "troops" seem already primed for being caught in a larger leadership crossfire. And considering how the political metaphors panned out in S7 - one overwhelming suicide strike equals mission accomplished!! - I'm not exactly chomping at the bit to see that one.