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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9702968" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah I'm definitely more sympathetic to Giles generally but also I'd criticise some of his outbursts more. What I think is striking though is you can see much more easily as someone "his age" how he's often restraining himself and intentionally being nice to Buffy about stuff he could be a huge dick about, and a lot of adults, especially in the 1990s, would have been huge dicks about. Like, at least in S1-3, he's definitely a "good person".Principal Snyder comes off as even worse than he did somehow! Because he's actively malicious and petty towards Buffy and others! Before he sort of blended in to generalized adult wanker-ish-ness, but as another adult, I can see why Giles and Buffy's mom are so deeply contemptuous of him. He also feels like more of a joke, like, it's easy to believe Giles bullying him re: Buffy, whereas I remember being amazed by that.Also wow, S1-3 Willow is a saint and these people would never have survived without her.And Willow and Xander messing around in S3, as a kid, I was SO MAD with them, these TRAITORS, why would they do something so dumb and wrong when they both have cool/hot SOs? But as a middle-aged adult, with distance from being a teen myself, but without forgetting what it was like, whilst it's still obviously wrong, I can now appreciate that they're both hormone-filled teenagers who have long had some feelings for each other, and thus they were horny dumbasses, not horrible people.</blockquote>

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