#btvs 3x02

[misskittyspuffy]

Honestly, after rewatching 3x02, I definitely hate it more than 7x19, when Buffy was kicked out of her own house.

In Dead man's party, the scoobies and Joyce are absolutely awful to Buffy, they're acting unfairly and are so self-centered, with their own expectations and needs, never actually considering that Buffy might have had her reasons for acting the way she did.

She's been giving so much... they don't deserve her 😬😠

[buffyseasonsix]

I say it every time but it's soooo crazy how all of Buffy's classmates definitely think she's gay and came out and got kicked out for being gay in Dead Man's Party.

Even when they talk about angel that's such a dyke name. And then faith comes in? And buffy goes on dates with her??? And faith is drawing little hearts on the windows in her science class???? Like average sunnydale student just thinks season 3 buffy is a lesbian right?

[castielspice]

buffy getting yelled at by all her friends and family while she cries in a room full of strangers was so fucked up. whoever wrote this episode deserves jail time and buffy deserves hugs and compassion after sacrificing the love of her life to save all their ungrateful asses.

[sunnydaleslayer]

The Scooby Gang besides Buffy frustrate me so much in 3x02.

[grey1144flower]

Just watched season 3, episode 2 of BtVS, some thoughts below:

Why do peaople think Joyce s a good parent?

I love Giles

Joyce says and does some thinfgs that raise a hole bunch of red flags (this is not new)

The narrative does seem to have some sympathy for both sides but I feel that's a (very harmful) false equivalence. Sure Buffy probs shoudn't have just left like that with no communication etc. but you'd have to be a real shitty friend not to cut the girl who was forced to kill her ex to save the world a bit of slack. Don't get me wrong, I don't begrudge them their emotions but....

For instance, the scene in the bedroom with Willow, Willow exhibited some pretty solid double standards - like when she wa angry at Bbffy for running away but refused to acknowledge that she was doing the same thing by avoiding her?!?

Xander was just a piss baby this entire episode

Cordelia was Cordelia but she had that horrible victim blaming line where she made Angelus and all his actions Buffy's fault (I feel like a really good for-want-of-a-nail re-write of Buffy could keep everything the same at the start but remove Buffy's horrible relationship to sex etc. (pre and post Angelus)).

Oz was there

Joyce once again hows her true colours, confromting someone in a croawded space where all of their peers are and where you have the authority is a classic tactic in abuse relationships. I don't blame Joyce at all for venting to her friend - venting can be really healthy and helpful (though Patty's behaviour towards Buffy nother kettle of fish) but she continues to act and talk as she almost always does - i.e. assuming Buffy doesn't have a reason, let alone a 'good' reason for the things she does, and sort of valueing (???) Buffy based on how we sheperforms to societyand Joyce's own standards on what a 'good daughter' looks like.