His betrayal of her trust is pretty huge to me and almost no one in fandom pays much attention to it
I think I've seen several Riley smackdowns around? elisi in particular (hi, I'm a professional lurker :'D) has written Riley-related meta.
but how did we get from Riley cheating on her "repeatedly, with professionals" as mcjulie has said, from him getting suck jobs in Listening to Fear, making love to buffy at the beginning of ITW, then the next time we see him, she's found him getting another suckjob - to Xander being the voice of the writers who claimed (according to Jane Espenson) that it really was all Buffy's fault? WTF?????
Because she didn't love him enough, duh! ... is probably the rationale they came up with, which is gross. Or rather, the question often seems to be whether she loved him at all. Or whether she "let him in" etc. And the fact that he felt like she didn't somehow makes him right and his behavior negligible. :| IT'S GROSS.
The Riley-Dawn connection is something I started working out by accident looking at those screencaps "Hmm, they injure themselves in nearly the identical place on their arm, that's got to mean something right?" They are both trying to establish identity, to make themselves "real" - "imprinted on the body".
Haha, that's what I got, too!
and look to Buffy for support and confirmation; she has to deal with and clean up the messes left by others. Riley turns on her rather viciously and leaves because of his cowardice, she runs after him anyway and fails to catch the helicopter and misses. Dawn runs away angrily when she learns the truth,
Oh, also a good point. I'll post my interpretation at the end. :)
Buffy, Willow and Tara save her from Glory, and Buffy confirms her bond with Dawn "Summers Blood". So - SISTER LOVE FTW.
W O R D.
Which, great - the show again confirms the importance of genuine love, and the show is very much about true love vs the illusory notions of "romantic love".
That is also true. And I really appreciate that the genuine article doesn't always need to be romantic in nature.
I still can't get to how it's all Buffy's fault and the further WTF-ery of AYW. There's no way to make that "right", any more than there is Tara's death or the racist "gang rape" metaphor in GiD.
Yes. There is indeed no way to make these things right. They're part and parcel of the series now and it would be hard to go back on them on the writers' part, however much we may hate it. :(
I think I've seen several Riley smackdowns around? elisi in particular (hi, I'm a professional lurker :'D) has written Riley-related meta.
but how did we get from Riley cheating on her "repeatedly, with professionals" as mcjulie has said, from him getting suck jobs in Listening to Fear, making love to buffy at the beginning of ITW, then the next time we see him, she's found him getting another suckjob - to Xander being the voice of the writers who claimed (according to Jane Espenson) that it really was all Buffy's fault? WTF?????
Because she didn't love him enough, duh! ... is probably the rationale they came up with, which is gross. Or rather, the question often seems to be whether she loved him at all. Or whether she "let him in" etc. And the fact that he felt like she didn't somehow makes him right and his behavior negligible. :| IT'S GROSS.
The Riley-Dawn connection is something I started working out by accident looking at those screencaps "Hmm, they injure themselves in nearly the identical place on their arm, that's got to mean something right?" They are both trying to establish identity, to make themselves "real" - "imprinted on the body".
Haha, that's what I got, too!
and look to Buffy for support and confirmation; she has to deal with and clean up the messes left by others. Riley turns on her rather viciously and leaves because of his cowardice, she runs after him anyway and fails to catch the helicopter and misses. Dawn runs away angrily when she learns the truth,
Oh, also a good point. I'll post my interpretation at the end. :)
Buffy, Willow and Tara save her from Glory, and Buffy confirms her bond with Dawn "Summers Blood". So - SISTER LOVE FTW.
W O R D.
Which, great - the show again confirms the importance of genuine love, and the show is very much about true love vs the illusory notions of "romantic love".
That is also true. And I really appreciate that the genuine article doesn't always need to be romantic in nature.
I still can't get to how it's all Buffy's fault and the further WTF-ery of AYW. There's no way to make that "right", any more than there is Tara's death or the racist "gang rape" metaphor in GiD.
Yes. There is indeed no way to make these things right. They're part and parcel of the series now and it would be hard to go back on them on the writers' part, however much we may hate it. :(
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