(Meta) More S8 meandering

[stormwreath]

I've had a thought. Why is Buffy wearing ugly combat gear instead of her trademark expensive designer clothes? Well, maybe she feels guilty over the source of her money. While she can justify to herself buying armour that will save Slayers' lives, she can't justify spending a penny of it on her own personal wardrobe...

It's also interesting to

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[skipp_of_ark]

For that matter, it's been a common fanon conceit for the last 4-5 years that there simply must be untold billions of dollars/pounds/euros of Old Watchers' Council money hidden away in various bank accounts just waiting for Giles and/or Willow to open the pursestrings. What if that's simply not true? What if the old Council's money was only enough to finance one relatively stable number of Watchers and one Slayer at a time, as opposed to the needs of almost 500 Slayers and their leaders spread out amongst who knows how many locations? Alternatively, what if the OWC's money was at banks using security and other procedures that were so excessive that it made it exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to get at that money, and stealing it was Buffy's "short-cut"? ("I'm sorry, Mr. Giles, but we will only accept a written authorization from Mr. Travers himself." "But he's DEAD!" "Then we cannot help you. Have a good day.")

Then again, it's entirely possible that the "why" of Buffy the Bank Robber isn't nearly as important to Joss as the "cool plot twist" of revealing BtBR in the first place. Remember, one of the key questions Joss wanted to address was "why does the world react so negatively to empowered women" or something like that, and on the face of things, it's a little OOC of him to suggest that the answer is that "women bring it on themselves." At least, I HOPE there's more to this "cool plot twist" than that....

[owenthurman]

fanon conceit for the last 4-5 years that there simply must be untold billions of dollars/pounds/euros

Fanon? They had a block long secret headquarters building in the City Of London. What more evidence do you require of billion-dollar status?

Not to mention the worldwide professional staff and research arm and artifacts and such.

[stormwreath]

And that while they might have only had one Slayer, they had plenty of Potentials, each one with her own assigned Watcher - and think how much they must have spent on bribes and special deals to get them away from their parents to train...

Although we do know from 'Sanctuary' that they had alchemists on the Board - so perhaps they didn't have a lot of money stashed away because they could just create a pile of gold whenever they needed some?