We're definitely supposed to cheer when she gets her files deleted in The Harvest. We're also supposed to laugh at how bad her singing is; with the Scoobies' awful performance, we're laughing for different reasons (not "they're stupid," but "they don't want to do this! ha ha").
But we're not really expected to cheer when Luke tries to eat her, or when she goes blind (I think).
So, there's a balance.
The other example that pops to mind, oddly, is when the stake falls on Cordy's head near the end of "After These Messages, We'll Be Right Back." Or the weird, cruel joke Buffy says about Cordy being dead. Which, when you take Cordy as being a shadow for Buffy, maybe says something big about Queen Buffy's self-loathing (assuming you don't want to write it off as Loeb being a crappy writer).
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We're definitely supposed to cheer when she gets her files deleted in The Harvest. We're also supposed to laugh at how bad her singing is; with the Scoobies' awful performance, we're laughing for different reasons (not "they're stupid," but "they don't want to do this! ha ha").
But we're not really expected to cheer when Luke tries to eat her, or when she goes blind (I think).
So, there's a balance.
The other example that pops to mind, oddly, is when the stake falls on Cordy's head near the end of "After These Messages, We'll Be Right Back." Or the weird, cruel joke Buffy says about Cordy being dead. Which, when you take Cordy as being a shadow for Buffy, maybe says something big about Queen Buffy's self-loathing (assuming you don't want to write it off as Loeb being a crappy writer).