If it's in the public interest, why couldn't they finance it?
Because as they’re showing with the current arc the ‘public’ and certainly those with access to the money such armament requires aren’t necessarily going to be presented with an accurate picture of the situation. Twilight has powerful allies in the military and (it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to conclude) in the media. Even before he became a player the world Buffy knows was manipulated into complacency by Wolfram and Hart et al. I do think taking matters into her own hands was short sighted of Buffy and that will be addressed but it’s hardly out of character. It took a very public message of support in The Prom for her to even contemplate recruiting the other members of her High school class to her cause. These were people she met everyday, people she knew the names of. She's never approached the citizens or authorities of Sunnydale for assistance. With reason given their record of either institutionalizing her or accusing her of murder or being an unfit guardian for Dawn.
A huge amount of Buffy's self-identification is that she is NOT Faith, she's the slayer who is still subject to human law
Buffy is less obsessed with Faith than Faith is with Buffy (which is part of the problem but they never came to blows over breaking human *property* laws. Buffy never returned the items she liberated from the Sport’s Goods store and only seemed to worry about it because she got caught. When she talks about human laws being respected the laws that she’s talking about are the ones relating to murder. Faith killed Finch and the hapless vulcanologist. Warren killed Katrina. Giles was going to use Faith to kill Gigi and yet people seem to think he’s the person who should be offering moral guidance to Buffy.
As I read this isn’t Buffy’s version of Angel’s beige arc or Faith’s fall and rise. It’s more like S7 where a pre-exiting flaw is being exposed by a change in circumstances. Then it was her Slayer isolationist crap as it impacted on her attitude to those around her, friends and family. Here it’s in part her long-standing distrust and disconnection from the very people she’s protecting. It’s also a quality that has been regarded as one of her great strengths – her loyalty and protectiveness towards those she regards as family who now include all the new Slayers working for her.
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Because as they’re showing with the current arc the ‘public’ and certainly those with access to the money such armament requires aren’t necessarily going to be presented with an accurate picture of the situation. Twilight has powerful allies in the military and (it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to conclude) in the media. Even before he became a player the world Buffy knows was manipulated into complacency by Wolfram and Hart et al. I do think taking matters into her own hands was short sighted of Buffy and that will be addressed but it’s hardly out of character. It took a very public message of support in The Prom for her to even contemplate recruiting the other members of her High school class to her cause. These were people she met everyday, people she knew the names of. She's never approached the citizens or authorities of Sunnydale for assistance. With reason given their record of either institutionalizing her or accusing her of murder or being an unfit guardian for Dawn.
A huge amount of Buffy's self-identification is that she is NOT Faith, she's the slayer who is still subject to human law
Buffy is less obsessed with Faith than Faith is with Buffy (which is part of the problem but they never came to blows over breaking human *property* laws. Buffy never returned the items she liberated from the Sport’s Goods store and only seemed to worry about it because she got caught. When she talks about human laws being respected the laws that she’s talking about are the ones relating to murder. Faith killed Finch and the hapless vulcanologist. Warren killed Katrina. Giles was going to use Faith to kill Gigi and yet people seem to think he’s the person who should be offering moral guidance to Buffy.
As I read this isn’t Buffy’s version of Angel’s beige arc or Faith’s fall and rise. It’s more like S7 where a pre-exiting flaw is being exposed by a change in circumstances. Then it was her Slayer isolationist crap as it impacted on her attitude to those around her, friends and family. Here it’s in part her long-standing distrust and disconnection from the very people she’s protecting. It’s also a quality that has been regarded as one of her great strengths – her loyalty and protectiveness towards those she regards as family who now include all the new Slayers working for her.