Buffy 8.13.

[elisi]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Xander/Dracula FTW! I can't even... it is deep fried crack straight to the veins! Oh Joss, you really *did* watch Torchwood, didn't you? (ETA: I don't need to specify that clearly he took all the TW crack, but didn't learn from the good stuff, right?)

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It's like they're taking a basic plot point and figuring out the worst way to bring it about.

Buffy is quite capable of breaking a young girl's heart either through ignorance or denial. Not knowing and being hard on all of them because she didn't know how to deal or being hard on Satsu (because she knew) because she didn't know how to deal. Instead we get a Buffy who first gives the responsible I'm straight , it'll never happen talk and then goes and sleeps with her anyway and gives the girl hope that her love can be returned.

For example with Dawn being a giant. They have Dawn dating a thricewise, then losing her virginity by cheating on him with his roommate (therefore betraying his trust and probably violating his room) , turns into a giant either because of her losing her virginity or because she lost her virginity and feels like a giant ho.And now she sits around with nothing to do with her new size and nobody seems overly concerned with fixing her.

They could have had Dawn became a giant because she lost her virginity, either just because of spilling blood that was in a blood vessel or that and her thricewise boyfriend. The boyfriend could've stayed by her side to support her and helped research a way to change her back .Then a way for Dawn's size to be useful could have come up and shortly after she was cured. No character assassination necessary and it's a good plot.

They could have had thier basic plot with no character assassination necessary. They're bashing thier own characters.