First of all, sorry for the snippy tone in my first response. It was a moment.
And presumably the first thing your Buffy would have done in A New Manwould be to go slay Maggie Walsh.
Why on earth would she do that? a) She had no reason to believe Maggie Walsh had anything to do with Giles disappearing, and b) Buffy doesn't slay humans. I specifically had her say above that she wasn't going to kill Kenny (the bastard!)
Ted was terminated only after his intentions proved lethal and the blinvisibility cure only became a priority once Xander discovered that it was going to become a case of molecular blisintegration.
You're saying that if Ted had stuck to Asimov's laws and Buffy's invisibility had turned out to not be life-threatening in and of itself, nobody would have raised an eyebrow? Nobody would ever have tried to fix things? Joyce would have married Ted and Buffy would have called him Dadbot and everyone would have lived happily ever after, except with Buffy staying invisible until she died of natural causes?
if you look at what Buffy does carefully, she does fight the supernatural but things only get Slayey when the other side gets lethal.
Lethal or makes the victim incapable of leading a normal human life, as Dawn currently is. And once again, I never suggested slaying Kenny. Why is going after the root of the problem "not so bright"? Isn't that exactly what comic!Buffy is so keen on doing in #18, for instance, rather than dealing with "symptoms"? The difference in this case, of course, being that no one has to die in the process.
Kenny's spell has been occasionally embarrassing for Dawn but far from killing her it's saved her life and allowed her to save Xander's (in#16).
Saved her life how? By Buffy's own reasoning, she shouldn't be there at all. She should be in Berkeley, not known as the most dangerous place on earth. If anything, this is putting her in harm's way. And if she has to spend the rest of her life like this, which they have no reason to believe she won't, then eventually it will be a lot more than just embarrassing.
I get that it's a metaphor for the whole "unable to live a normal life" thing, but at least Buffy has the choice to walk away; Dawn doesn't, and they know (or at least think they know) who's responsible. It's such a very simple solution to the problem, and I don't get why nobody even suggests it.
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And presumably the first thing your Buffy would have done in A New Manwould be to go slay Maggie Walsh.
Why on earth would she do that? a) She had no reason to believe Maggie Walsh had anything to do with Giles disappearing, and b) Buffy doesn't slay humans. I specifically had her say above that she wasn't going to kill Kenny (the bastard!)
Ted was terminated only after his intentions proved lethal and the blinvisibility cure only became a priority once Xander discovered that it was going to become a case of molecular blisintegration.
You're saying that if Ted had stuck to Asimov's laws and Buffy's invisibility had turned out to not be life-threatening in and of itself, nobody would have raised an eyebrow? Nobody would ever have tried to fix things? Joyce would have married Ted and Buffy would have called him Dadbot and everyone would have lived happily ever after, except with Buffy staying invisible until she died of natural causes?
if you look at what Buffy does carefully, she does fight the supernatural but things only get Slayey when the other side gets lethal.
Lethal or makes the victim incapable of leading a normal human life, as Dawn currently is. And once again, I never suggested slaying Kenny. Why is going after the root of the problem "not so bright"? Isn't that exactly what comic!Buffy is so keen on doing in #18, for instance, rather than dealing with "symptoms"? The difference in this case, of course, being that no one has to die in the process.
Kenny's spell has been occasionally embarrassing for Dawn but far from killing her it's saved her life and allowed her to save Xander's (in#16).
Saved her life how? By Buffy's own reasoning, she shouldn't be there at all. She should be in Berkeley, not known as the most dangerous place on earth. If anything, this is putting her in harm's way. And if she has to spend the rest of her life like this, which they have no reason to believe she won't, then eventually it will be a lot more than just embarrassing.
I get that it's a metaphor for the whole "unable to live a normal life" thing, but at least Buffy has the choice to walk away; Dawn doesn't, and they know (or at least think they know) who's responsible. It's such a very simple solution to the problem, and I don't get why nobody even suggests it.