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Date Posted: 05:15:14 11/02/05 Wed
Author: Celebaelin
Subject: Suck jobs
In reply to: Finn Mac Cool 's message, "Re: I think your analogy is too favorable to Riley" on 20:45:49 11/01/05 Tue

There seems to be a general agreement that Riley was unfaithful to Buffy. Within the context of the show this is explicitly NOT the case. No allegation of sexual impropriety is ever made regarding Buffy and the vamp he stakes or the one who he lets feed from him. I wouldn't condone Riley's risk-taking but I would have thought the appropriate reaction was concern rather than anger. Buffy's behaviour constantly pushes Riley away in a situation when he obviously already feels alienated. I may have selective memory but I don't remember Riley ever lying to Buffy at this stage. He concealed the fact that he was a member of the initiative just as Buffy concealed the fact that she was the Slayer but that was proper behaviour for them both at the time.

If you translate the events into the real world then of course the vampiric feeding has a sexual connotation and that of course should end the relationship, BANG all over, but if you place that interpretation on the events what do you make of Buffy vs Dracula?

I'm as mystified as anyone about the differences in opinion regarding this, but from the opposite POV to manwitch obviously and with rather less indignation and rather more sadness.

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