Getting Ripper would have been REALLY cool, I'm surprised no one thought of that. I'ts not like Spike is really a badass any more, he's kind of a neutered kitten. Starting to remind me of Riley on some levels.
What I don't understand is the SOLE emphasis throughout the season on sex. Giles is such a horn dog and that's his biggest complaint about being a child again - not the loss of rights and privileges like driver's license, voting rights, ability to own property or simply to go anywhere he likes in public without being questioned or chaperoned.
In one issue he propositions Olivia and she is rightly upset and says do you think I'm a pedophile? In this last issue Willow turns him 21 yrs old for a day, he races to her house and they have sex (offscreen). Which does not speak well of her and it's just - I know it's fiction and this is an adult in a child's body anyway so...yeah, you know what? You're MUCH better off not having read them. I oughtn't have gone down that path, but I found a free source.
The revelations of Scott Allie's behavior make the comics really disturbing now anyway, I don't know that I can keep reading S10 with the same enjoyment.
but he's actually still himself (50s? 60s?) just in a younger body so we wouldn't have gotten, say, Ripper or anything.
Yes and no? In episode 19 he becomes 21 for a day and as I mentioned, races over to have sex with Olivia, buys a fancy suit, goes to a car lot to test drive sportscars and basically acts like a teenager for a day. He does show a little Ripper-ish badassery when he grabs a guitar through a shop window to help kill a demon.
As a 12 year old he pines for the sex he can't have (so Spuffy sex sets him off - not because he's against Spike but just people having what he can't); but he also sits on the couch with Xander and plays video games and wears a dinosaur print on his bed robe. (I have 2 brothers btw and I'm pretty sure that dinosaur prints went out the door when they were like, 8 years old.)
Basically, Giles being regressed means whatever Christos Gages wants it to mean at any given moment.
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Date: 2015-10-09 02:37 am (UTC)What I don't understand is the SOLE emphasis throughout the season on sex. Giles is such a horn dog and that's his biggest complaint about being a child again - not the loss of rights and privileges like driver's license, voting rights, ability to own property or simply to go anywhere he likes in public without being questioned or chaperoned.
In one issue he propositions Olivia and she is rightly upset and says do you think I'm a pedophile? In this last issue Willow turns him 21 yrs old for a day, he races to her house and they have sex (offscreen). Which does not speak well of her and it's just - I know it's fiction and this is an adult in a child's body anyway so...yeah, you know what? You're MUCH better off not having read them. I oughtn't have gone down that path, but I found a free source.
The revelations of Scott Allie's behavior make the comics really disturbing now anyway, I don't know that I can keep reading S10 with the same enjoyment.
but he's actually still himself (50s? 60s?) just in a younger body so we wouldn't have gotten, say, Ripper or anything.
Yes and no? In episode 19 he becomes 21 for a day and as I mentioned, races over to have sex with Olivia, buys a fancy suit, goes to a car lot to test drive sportscars and basically acts like a teenager for a day. He does show a little Ripper-ish badassery when he grabs a guitar through a shop window to help kill a demon.
As a 12 year old he pines for the sex he can't have (so Spuffy sex sets him off - not because he's against Spike but just people having what he can't); but he also sits on the couch with Xander and plays video games and wears a dinosaur print on his bed robe. (I have 2 brothers btw and I'm pretty sure that dinosaur prints went out the door when they were like, 8 years old.)
Basically, Giles being regressed means whatever Christos Gages wants it to mean at any given moment.