#ben wilkinson

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 5.22 | The Gift

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BEST OF BTVS: Ben Wilkinson

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 5.22 "The Gift"

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The contrast between Giles always taking off and cleaning his glasses when the Scoobies are doing something stupid and it being played as a joke vs the way he carefully and purposely puts them on so he has to really look at what he's doing when he kills Ben. btvs doesn't always hit it out of the park but when it does it really does

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I ultimately find Ben a very uninteresting character, and I think the problem is they ruined him by focusing too hard on the mystery of his connection with Glory and his intentions.

Because prior to the reveal Ben is painted as someone who acts like a good guy, but in private is actually very self-centered. Like, he hates Glory, but on a personal level not a moral level, and he doesn’t actually care what she does except in as far as it makes things inconvenient for him. Honestly, I don’t know if it’s intentional or not, but it kind of comes off like he is one of the other two Hell Gods from the same dimension as Glory, but he’s just trying to settle in and live his life here on Earth and finds all of Glory’s nonsense annoying. Which by the way could have been a really interesting concept for the character (not saying what they should have done, but better than what they did at least.)

But then we get the reveal that Ben and Glory are the same person, and now all the sudden Ben just is this really good guy who is trying to protect Dawn from Glory and he’s been the restraining voice in the back of Glory’s head this whole time. Which also is a fine and interesting concept for a character, genuinely really good person who is forced to body share with a Hell God, but that’s not what he’s been up until this point so it’s hard to get invested in it now. And then he betrays Dawn to Glory to save himself and it’s like, sure why not, makes as much sense as anything.

It also takes the punch out of both Buffy choosing to let him live and Giles choosing to kill him. Because Ben is innocent and good enough that it makes sense that Buffy would choose to let him live, but he’s selfish enough that I can’t get to worked up over the moral grayness of Giles killing him to save the world the way I could if Ben were genuinely completely innocent.

Also why were there not more Ben and Dawn parallels? They were both once something very old and very powerful, shoved into a purely mortal human body. Neither of them have any memories of their past self and they both just want to live their lives, but said past self is proving a threat to their normal mortal existence. Like, you could do a lot of stuff with that!

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THE ADAM PROJECT 2022

Well, you know, you've always said that you wished you'd met me earlier. Here I am.