Doyleist: Because the thrust of the show is "It's All About Buffy," in Season Seven the writers *take away* any Giles character work they've done to save room for more feel-sorry-for-Buffy moments -- Joss and Co wrote and then discarded scenes in which (in LMPTM) he talks about how killing Ben has affected him, and in Chosen how the First had appeared to him as Jenny.
That's very interesting and quite sad, because it didn't work--IMO Buffy was less sympathetic in Season 7 than at any other time in the series. I don't want to get started on an anti-S7 rant here, but I particularly disliked the way Giles and Willow were written that season--it took way too much fanwanking to connect them to the characters they'd been before. In what was most likely a case of self-protective denial, I'd completely forgotten about Giles killing the Bringer. It never made any sense to me, PTSD or no PTSD.
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That's very interesting and quite sad, because it didn't work--IMO Buffy was less sympathetic in Season 7 than at any other time in the series. I don't want to get started on an anti-S7 rant here, but I particularly disliked the way Giles and Willow were written that season--it took way too much fanwanking to connect them to the characters they'd been before. In what was most likely a case of self-protective denial, I'd completely forgotten about Giles killing the Bringer. It never made any sense to me, PTSD or no PTSD.