It's not something she does all the time. It's something that's rare enough to be worthy of note given that you'd think it would be the most efficient way to get the job done. An absence that any theory that Buffy regards all vampires as stakeable regardless of how they behave, needs to account for.
Buffy routinely patrols in cemetaries. My natural inference has always been that it's easiest to dispatch the newly risen. That we don't see the actual staking much could, I suppose, be taken to mean that it's rare. But it's alternatively possible that we aren't shown it because it's meant to be seen as so totally normal it's not worth spending time on. To me the latter most naturally fits with the idea that Buffy's routine is to patrol cemeteries.
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Date: 2010-02-22 07:53 pm (UTC)Buffy routinely patrols in cemetaries. My natural inference has always been that it's easiest to dispatch the newly risen. That we don't see the actual staking much could, I suppose, be taken to mean that it's rare. But it's alternatively possible that we aren't shown it because it's meant to be seen as so totally normal it's not worth spending time on. To me the latter most naturally fits with the idea that Buffy's routine is to patrol cemeteries.