Small Buffy Rant
Apr. 29th, 2004 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxCan someone please tell me what it is about Buffy that inspires people to make excuses for the character's pattern of behavior?
How many times do people say "Well, she's only 17," "She's only 18," "She's only 19," "She's only 20," "She's only 21," "She's only 22." When, please tell me when, is it ever going to sink in that it wasn't/isn't her AGE? It's HER! It's who she is written to be?
Whenever something comes up where Buffy did something stupid, childish, or reprehensible (in whatever season) apologists repeat M.E's constant mantra, trotting out her age and "she's in a bad place." Please! A three year old throwing a tantrum in a mall is conceivable because of their age, but that doesn't mean it's acceptable behavior! You don't turn a blind eye to the fact that the three year old is behaving inappapropriately. You don't go "aw..." Odds are you want the behavior to cease because it's annoying. Age doesn't make the behavior right. And You hope like heck that the child grows out of it.
Worse, a three year old who throws a tantrum in a mall who becomes a four year old throwing a tantrum in a mall, who becomes a five year old throwing a trantrum in a mall, who becomes a six year old throwing a tantrum in mall who becomes an (3+8=) eleven year old throwing a tantrum in the malll. . . Honey, that's not age. That's a BRAT!
After 8 freaking years, stop using age and "bad pwace" as an excuse. Buffy behaved in a certain way. Consistently. It's a pattern. Either the behavior is acceptable or it isn't. If her behavior is acceptable to you, fine. I won't argue with that (roll my eyes, but won't argue it). But her age isn't an excuse. That she's stressed isn't an excuse. All Whedonverse characters were/are stressed all the damn time. They're ALL in a "bad pwace."
And it's all beside the point because, an excuse is good for when a behavior is an exception. When it's the rule it's not an excusable aberration, it's not exception-- it's a characteristic!
Guh.
Note to self. Stop getting into arguments with Buffy apologists. It never leads to anything but frustration.
How many times do people say "Well, she's only 17," "She's only 18," "She's only 19," "She's only 20," "She's only 21," "She's only 22." When, please tell me when, is it ever going to sink in that it wasn't/isn't her AGE? It's HER! It's who she is written to be?
Whenever something comes up where Buffy did something stupid, childish, or reprehensible (in whatever season) apologists repeat M.E's constant mantra, trotting out her age and "she's in a bad place." Please! A three year old throwing a tantrum in a mall is conceivable because of their age, but that doesn't mean it's acceptable behavior! You don't turn a blind eye to the fact that the three year old is behaving inappapropriately. You don't go "aw..." Odds are you want the behavior to cease because it's annoying. Age doesn't make the behavior right. And You hope like heck that the child grows out of it.
Worse, a three year old who throws a tantrum in a mall who becomes a four year old throwing a tantrum in a mall, who becomes a five year old throwing a trantrum in a mall, who becomes a six year old throwing a tantrum in mall who becomes an (3+8=) eleven year old throwing a tantrum in the malll. . . Honey, that's not age. That's a BRAT!
After 8 freaking years, stop using age and "bad pwace" as an excuse. Buffy behaved in a certain way. Consistently. It's a pattern. Either the behavior is acceptable or it isn't. If her behavior is acceptable to you, fine. I won't argue with that (roll my eyes, but won't argue it). But her age isn't an excuse. That she's stressed isn't an excuse. All Whedonverse characters were/are stressed all the damn time. They're ALL in a "bad pwace."
And it's all beside the point because, an excuse is good for when a behavior is an exception. When it's the rule it's not an excusable aberration, it's not exception-- it's a characteristic!
Guh.
Note to self. Stop getting into arguments with Buffy apologists. It never leads to anything but frustration.
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Date: 2004-05-01 06:40 am (UTC)And then we have the life of a man who suffered, who had been tortured, and then who died unmourned by the very assholes he just saved.
Whatever Joss was going for, he missed by a mile. What Chosen shows is just how worthless Buffy and the Scoobs really were. The heroes were the ones left in the crater, NOT the users patting THEMSELVES on the back for "saving the world."
Sigh. Whatever happens, the Fang Gang are infinitely better people than Buffy of the Scums.
Glad Angel and Spike are free of the bitch. THe Fang Gang are heores. Buffy and the scums are worthless little spoiled brats.
And Joss doesn't see how much more worthless he's made them by having them off partying around the world while those in LA, abandonned by the "good guys", sacrifice themselves so that others can be happy.
It amazes me how Joss really has completely trashed the BtVS characters without even seeing it. The real heroes were the ones on the spin-off.