I like Max's answer to this. My own is less nuanced -- it's a plot device. An artifact of the plot. Insofar as Joss's stories routinely remind us that they are stories, I think it's more a feature than a bug that not everything makes sense 'in story'. We're to be kicked out from time to time.
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Date: 2010-09-09 05:58 pm (UTC)