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Buffy 4x14 - full reaction (Patreon)

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2022-01-02 17:01:02
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2023-02

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Joelle Schutt

It's too bad the writers didn't really give us much of a reason to care about Riley's character or empathize with him, given this one is mostly about his reckoning with the truth about everything he thought he knew. The only thing we can really hold onto is that Buffy cares about him, and we don't want to see Buffy sad :)

G.Un.

Is Riley actually “boring”? Well, I would define him more as “basic”. I mean, if for a moment we would try to put aside all the Initiative stuff, the Adam situation, the demon fighting or all the problem with the enhancing drugs, what could we say about him as a person? Which specific, intriguing, good trait can we associate with his character? I could say that he's a good guy, honest-ish, friendly (with Willow at the beginning), but not much more and that's the problem. I could make a list of the good, compelling and interesting traits of Tara and Anya, traits that they have regardless of the situation, but I can't do the same with Riley. The mistake, if it was a mistake I don't know, was to connect the character with the Initiative quite from the beginning without trying to create a compelling character first, therefore we identify him more with what he does than with who he is … the good guy stock character. Probably for this we don't always understand why Buffy is so much into Riley, apart from the physical attraction of course. This at least is understandable, after the long and almost platonic relationship with Angel, she has a lot of sex to catch up. On the other hand Buffy said that she wanted a “boring” boyfriend, a mr. Joe guy, so … If we see Adam as the final product of the Initiative, we could say that the entire Initiative storyline is the big bad, so in this season they introduced it right from the first episode. Anyway I wouldn't focus to much on the big bad if I were you. The big bad is actually little more than a note of colour to set the tone of the season, especially the finale, and, most of all, a plot device to bring Buffy face to face with the real “big bad”. This is a blueprint that you can see in each single season, and when you see it you can't un-see it anymore. The ultimate goal of each season is not really defeat the villain but for Buffy to reach a new stepping stone in her personal growth towards the woman, and the slayer, she is destined to become. So much so that, as soon as she achives such personal growth, the big bad ceases to be a threat becoming a minor annoyance at best, and Buffy gets rid of him in 30 sec max. So which is the real “big bad” of this season? Well, this is up to you to find out. To be honest anyway, it's not so hard to get it in hindsight (I'm sure that you can easily get the ones of the previous seasons if you want), but not so much while you're watching the season for the first time … so don't worry if you don't get it.

zerofk
>>74884006

You bring up some interesting points. You say that "we identify [Riley] more with what he does than with who he is." And I think this is at the heart of much of his struggle in this episode. He too identifies too strongly with what he does. Once that it taken away, who is left? When Adam says he was shaped by Walsh he protests, says that he is more than that - but he does not say how or what this "more" is. Is it even there? And if not, if the Initiative is really all that he is, is that a shortcoming of the character, of the writers - or is it exactly what the story needs? Interesting questions indeed.