Your first paragraph is what most bothers me as well -- and the sudden panic response it apparently inspired that started all the fuss.
Like your mini-analysis here. I think the other thing that may come up, I'm thinking specifically about the mummy hand incident, is how difficult it can be to connect with others and be understood by them. I think that's a theme going on in these other instances as well. And of course, Buffy is disconnected from everything at this point. In fact what's interesting about that last scene is that you'd think there was a real connection going on there, and yet Buffy is seeing Giles as a father substitute and he yet again backs away from that role (a bit of foreshadowing to when he does leave).
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Date: 2007-06-01 10:01 pm (UTC)Like your mini-analysis here. I think the other thing that may come up, I'm thinking specifically about the mummy hand incident, is how difficult it can be to connect with others and be understood by them. I think that's a theme going on in these other instances as well. And of course, Buffy is disconnected from everything at this point. In fact what's interesting about that last scene is that you'd think there was a real connection going on there, and yet Buffy is seeing Giles as a father substitute and he yet again backs away from that role (a bit of foreshadowing to when he does leave).