[ SECRET POST #2328 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2328 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I liked Riley, not as an example of someone I'd want to date, but as simply a flawed character. People complain about the "he just wanted to be The Man" thing -- and I understand that, to a point -- but if he didn't have any flaws at all, what kind of person/character would he be? His insecurity (I won't say it was misogyny because I think that word is far too overused these days) was a natural choice for the writers, considering Riley's job. Even a super secret military organization would've had their super secret soldiers go through regular military training first. There weren't any female soldiers in The Initiative that I remember, and their job was to protect the citizenry from demons; a gung-ho, we the mens attitude would hardly be a surprise considering the ego it must boost in them. I think his insecurities about Buffy were less "Iowa" than "military" (and I say that as a military wife).

I liked that Buffy got a taste of what it was like to date a good guy, someone who at his heart is nearly always good/good-intentioned, as opposed to Angel and Spike, who could never give that to her. Riley gave her a shot at someone who knew what she was without her having to feel she had to protect him (like she would have with Scott). Riley was the in-between, not civilian but not Scooby.

I think I liked Riley, too, because his flaws were simple human flaws. His insecurity made him more human. Buffy needed human. Because even Xander, human as he was, was such a part of the Scooby thing and such an extension of who she was that he wasn't just human to her. Angel and Spike were so over the top drama (trying to kill her, ending the world, rape, more trying to kill her and ending the world) that those things weren't flaws as much as they were plotlines.

As I word that, I think yeah, that's what I mean: I liked Riley because he was a character, a human being. I didn't love Angel or Spike because they were plot devices for Buffy to react to.

[(Anonymous)]

As the OP of this secret, you're reply gets all my love and more <3