From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   http://www.bustle.com/articles/50379-9-irritating-things-about-b   
   ffy-you-only-notice-when-you-re-watch-the-show   
      
   DAWN WAS 14, BUT SHE ACTED WAY YOUNGER   
   She was rude and annoying, always popping up when she wasn’t wanted and   
   making the already-difficult lives of the Scooby Gang even harder. This   
   might have been excusable if she was 10, even 12, but girl was 14 when she   
   first appeared. She was a teenager in high school, and still she felt the   
   need to whine about Buffy or incessantly badger Joyce every chance she got.   
   [[more at the link]]   
      
   NO ONE HAD SIBLINGS.   
   And speaking of Dawn — before her arrival in season 5, no member of the   
   show’s   
   main trio, or even their friends, had siblings. Buffy, I get, but Xander,   
   Willow, Cordelia and Oz? That seems like a bit of a stretch.   
   [[more at the link]]   
      
   EVERYONE WAS WHITE [[almost]]   
   Here are the significant non-white characters that appeared in Buffy:   
   Kendra, a Jamaican slayer with the world’s worst accent; Principal Wood; Mr.   
   Trick, a vampire who, ironically, commented on the lack of black people in   
   Sunnydale when he first arrived. And that’s it. For seven seasons.   
      
   NO ONE QUESTIONED WHY A MIDDLE-AGED LIBRARIAN HUNG OUT WITH A GROUP OF   
   TEENAGERS FOR SEVERAL YEARS   
   Once Joyce knew that Giles was Buffy’s watcher, her lack of concern for   
   their time spent together was understandable. But all those years   
   beforehand, when she simply thought Giles was a strange, single school   
   librarian who was often at her house and spent an inordinate amount of time   
   with her teenage daughter? There was no excuse for that. Joyce’s naivety was   
   actually kind of disturbing, but, considering how little attention she paid   
   to Buffy’s slayer activities or social life, sadly not surprising.   
      
   RILEY STAYED ON THE SHOW FOR FAR TOO LONG   
   Riley stayed on Buffy for awhile, taking up space for all of Season 4 and   
   about half of Season 5...he was boring.   
   [[more at the link]]   
      
   THE BRONZE LET ANYONE IN OVER THE AGE OF FIVE   
   And apparently held massive ragers for high schoolers every night of the   
   week, with free-flowing alcohol and not a single bouncer at the door.   
   [[Except when Vamp Willow and her gang took it over]] Sunnydale parents   
   might’ve freaked out over vampires and demons, but when it came to their   
   teens going clubbing after finishing their homework, there wasn’t a single   
   complaint.   
   [[more at the link]]   
      
   BUFFY NEVER GOT PAID FOR BEING A SLAYER   
   As Buffy learned throughout the show, it was incredibly hard to balance a   
   social life, school and/or work with her “real” job fighting bad guys. You   
   would think that for that kind of sacrifice, the Watchers’ Council would’ve   
   thrown (a lot of) money her way, but no.   
   [[more at the link]]   
      
   NOTHING REALLY CHANGED WHEN DAWN APPEARED   
   The point is that having 14 years of changed memories would certainly have   
   done something to alter the Scooby Gang’s lives, but according to Buffy, the   
   only thing different was the show’s opening credits.   
   [[more at the link]]   
      
   “ONCE MORE WITH FEELING” JUST DOESN’T MAKE SENSE   
   Look, I love “Once More With Feeling” as much as anyone, if not even more.   
   I   
   have all the songs on my iTunes. I know which cast members did/did not want   
   to sing and why. I actually understand the reference to “his penis got   
   diseases from a Chumash tribe.” But as amazing as the episode is, it just   
   doesn’t make sense. The reason? Xander was the one who summoned the demon,   
   and so he knew, all along, why they were singing and what they’d need to   
   research in order to make it stop.   
      
   Yet he didn’t say a word, choosing to let people literally burn up instead   
   of 'fessing up to his mistake, which was very unlike him. Sure, Xander was   
   constantly fooling around, but would he really have hid potentially   
   life-saving knowledge from the group just because he was embarrassed? I   
   highly doubt it — and for that reason, “Once More With Feeling” has a lot   
   more issues than just the Scooby Gang’s synchronized dancing.   
      
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