It's a good explanation. Maybe its even the right one. But there are others, aren't there?
We do have a few other clues, though. She kept it from Willow. And when it first came up with the demon, she tried to lie her way out of it. She knows it wouldn't fly with Willow, whatever it was. I'm not a lawyer, but isn't that evidence of mens rea? (guilty conscience, if I got the right term). So that makes it harder to argue that she's deceived herself into thinking its a worthwhile trade-off. Unless she's deceived herself about why she wanted to lie to Willow. If it was all "I must provide for my children", you think that'd be a perfectly legitimate thing to mull over with Willow.
I'm also betting a lot that Giles did get in her face about it, and that's why they are now estranged. She's pushing away the truth tellers. (And it explains why she's keeping Xander so close). But again, surely Giles would have been all about helping her find a way to take responsibility for the kiddies. And finally, if its responsibility that's driving this, why so non-chalant when Soledad hangs up on her? Not too worried about that one.
It is true that we have lots of fragments that tell us things. It's just hard to know how to put it together. Which is why I think we're going to get more on it. Other random stray thought: one wonders if Twilight had a hand in setting up the bad decision in the first place. Use Riley to use Xander to influence Buffy? Set up circumstances where she'd feel it's needful. Provoke a war between her and humans by doing a Giant Trio (Life Serial) and make it seem like an ungrateful humanity is actively making her work more difficult? All these possibilities. And how we view Buffy and her corruption depends on which it is.
Two other random Spike thoughts: Why does "suck it up summers" always sound Spike-ish to me? "great muppety odin" was Xander-ish. And yes, I noticed the crater. It's on my list. I left Suck it up summers off cause I'm not sure if I'm the only one who hears echoes of Spike there.
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We do have a few other clues, though. She kept it from Willow. And when it first came up with the demon, she tried to lie her way out of it. She knows it wouldn't fly with Willow, whatever it was. I'm not a lawyer, but isn't that evidence of mens rea? (guilty conscience, if I got the right term). So that makes it harder to argue that she's deceived herself into thinking its a worthwhile trade-off. Unless she's deceived herself about why she wanted to lie to Willow. If it was all "I must provide for my children", you think that'd be a perfectly legitimate thing to mull over with Willow.
I'm also betting a lot that Giles did get in her face about it, and that's why they are now estranged. She's pushing away the truth tellers. (And it explains why she's keeping Xander so close). But again, surely Giles would have been all about helping her find a way to take responsibility for the kiddies. And finally, if its responsibility that's driving this, why so non-chalant when Soledad hangs up on her? Not too worried about that one.
It is true that we have lots of fragments that tell us things. It's just hard to know how to put it together. Which is why I think we're going to get more on it. Other random stray thought: one wonders if Twilight had a hand in setting up the bad decision in the first place. Use Riley to use Xander to influence Buffy? Set up circumstances where she'd feel it's needful. Provoke a war between her and humans by doing a Giant Trio (Life Serial) and make it seem like an ungrateful humanity is actively making her work more difficult? All these possibilities. And how we view Buffy and her corruption depends on which it is.
Two other random Spike thoughts: Why does "suck it up summers" always sound Spike-ish to me? "great muppety odin" was Xander-ish. And yes, I noticed the crater. It's on my list. I left Suck it up summers off cause I'm not sure if I'm the only one who hears echoes of Spike there.