Giles that smart sexy bitch
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timepiececlockBuffy talk to kill time till 8pm...
((wow, look at all those T's and L's... that must be some form of alliteration...))
I was just thinking: why do I like Giles so much? Why has he always been one of my favorite characters, above Willow or Xander or Angel?
When I first started watching this show I was cool with the general concept (it being explained conveniently in the title), but sketchy on EVERYthing else. I only knew that Giles was supposed to be the " mature, chaperone, adult figure". I didn't expect to like him, really-- I thought it'd be like other shows, where the adult amongst the teens is tolerated or ridiculed (which he was-- but fondly by the characters, not by the writing).
Well, first off I realized that the teens weren't really teens but acually young adults (I was a bit behind), and slowly while watchin the early s-6 eps and through FX reruns, I also realized how cool Giles' character was. And, how necessary.
He had great deal of the best lines, long before Anya and Spike came around. He had a neat backstory of a troubled past, and he was goofy and bookish, but inside he was smart and ruthless and a wonderfully honorable person. I thought to myself, "You know, if I was a vampire, I'd be smart and turn Giles. He'd make a great vampire." And what do you know? A little while later, I find a book mini-series in the library where in an alternate future Giles is the King of Vampires and has taken over Southern California. Scary.
I like Giles' steadiness-- he seems so sane & stable compared to the rest of them. And even when he's having issues, they're so funny. Like the entire 4th season. One of my all-time favorite Buffy scenes is from 'A New Man', when Giles makes Spike pull over for a minute to get out and roar at Professor Walsh. ::cackling:: I was holding my sides and laughing so hard at that.
Alll that aside, Giles is charming too, and can be very sexy-- in that intelligent, musician way. If he was younger or I was older (and he existed), I'd date him. Heck, even the brief Giles/Joyce fling was funny as hell.
And, totally separate from my Giles-lurve, I like the scenes with Spike and Giles together. I love the English-guy aspect that they share, and I wish we'd get to see more of it in quips and small moments.Their interaction is always amusing, and really funny sometimes, in how Spike should be treated like Giles' peer-- like Angel was-- and yet instead he gets treated like a 20-something Scooby. And yet, sometimes, Spike seems to respect Giles more than the others (Spike just mocks him for what he does as a Watcher, not for being stupid like how he mocks the rest of the SG), which is cool too, and makes a twisted sense. I remember reading a magazine article with an interview w/ both JM and ASH. One of them made a comment that has stuck with me since: "Spike is what Giels used to be, and Giles is what Spike almost became." I love the cheesy father/son thing from Restless and Tabula Rasa, and it almost reflects that observation.
I loved Giles' entire dream from Restless-- he even got the best cheese-guy line: "I wear the cheese; it does not wear me."
Anyway, seeing season six... and having Giles come back... and especially his reaction to Buffy's tale of woe (laughing)-- it made me realize how much he was needed in the Sunnydale group. Well, first it made me jump up and 'whoop'.... and then it made me have heavy character analyzational thoughts.
I'm glad Giles was in Sleeper. I hope he doesn't die, or I'm gonna throw a bitch-fit.
And nobody better spoil me before I see NLM, either. I am confident that he'll live (as I have not seen various LJ friends crying and wailing in their entries), but I'm excited to see what happens. Want more Giles!
((wow, look at all those T's and L's... that must be some form of alliteration...))
I was just thinking: why do I like Giles so much? Why has he always been one of my favorite characters, above Willow or Xander or Angel?
When I first started watching this show I was cool with the general concept (it being explained conveniently in the title), but sketchy on EVERYthing else. I only knew that Giles was supposed to be the " mature, chaperone, adult figure". I didn't expect to like him, really-- I thought it'd be like other shows, where the adult amongst the teens is tolerated or ridiculed (which he was-- but fondly by the characters, not by the writing).
Well, first off I realized that the teens weren't really teens but acually young adults (I was a bit behind), and slowly while watchin the early s-6 eps and through FX reruns, I also realized how cool Giles' character was. And, how necessary.
He had great deal of the best lines, long before Anya and Spike came around. He had a neat backstory of a troubled past, and he was goofy and bookish, but inside he was smart and ruthless and a wonderfully honorable person. I thought to myself, "You know, if I was a vampire, I'd be smart and turn Giles. He'd make a great vampire." And what do you know? A little while later, I find a book mini-series in the library where in an alternate future Giles is the King of Vampires and has taken over Southern California. Scary.
I like Giles' steadiness-- he seems so sane & stable compared to the rest of them. And even when he's having issues, they're so funny. Like the entire 4th season. One of my all-time favorite Buffy scenes is from 'A New Man', when Giles makes Spike pull over for a minute to get out and roar at Professor Walsh. ::cackling:: I was holding my sides and laughing so hard at that.
Alll that aside, Giles is charming too, and can be very sexy-- in that intelligent, musician way. If he was younger or I was older (and he existed), I'd date him. Heck, even the brief Giles/Joyce fling was funny as hell.
And, totally separate from my Giles-lurve, I like the scenes with Spike and Giles together. I love the English-guy aspect that they share, and I wish we'd get to see more of it in quips and small moments.Their interaction is always amusing, and really funny sometimes, in how Spike should be treated like Giles' peer-- like Angel was-- and yet instead he gets treated like a 20-something Scooby. And yet, sometimes, Spike seems to respect Giles more than the others (Spike just mocks him for what he does as a Watcher, not for being stupid like how he mocks the rest of the SG), which is cool too, and makes a twisted sense. I remember reading a magazine article with an interview w/ both JM and ASH. One of them made a comment that has stuck with me since: "Spike is what Giels used to be, and Giles is what Spike almost became." I love the cheesy father/son thing from Restless and Tabula Rasa, and it almost reflects that observation.
I loved Giles' entire dream from Restless-- he even got the best cheese-guy line: "I wear the cheese; it does not wear me."
Anyway, seeing season six... and having Giles come back... and especially his reaction to Buffy's tale of woe (laughing)-- it made me realize how much he was needed in the Sunnydale group. Well, first it made me jump up and 'whoop'.... and then it made me have heavy character analyzational thoughts.
I'm glad Giles was in Sleeper. I hope he doesn't die, or I'm gonna throw a bitch-fit.
And nobody better spoil me before I see NLM, either. I am confident that he'll live (as I have not seen various LJ friends crying and wailing in their entries), but I'm excited to see what happens. Want more Giles!
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Date: 2002-11-26 11:32 pm (UTC)