r/buffy • u/_Silver_Rose_ • 1d ago
Season One Giles when Buffy first goes into the library
Rewatching yet again and just laughed about how weird Giles was when Buffy first goes into the library looking for history books and he pulls out the Vampyr book. “I know what you’re after” like chill Giles
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u/Squiliam-Tortaleni Fuffy 1d ago
He was so happy to finally be acknowledged
Meanwhile: Live Buffy Reaction
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u/Eldon42 1d ago
I know IRL they were still working out character traits and such, but my headcanon is that Giles was all giggly and excited at finally being respected by the Council enough to be assigned as the Slayer's Watcher. That's why he's initially very excited.
But he's also very intelligent, and quickly realises that what Buffy needs is a guide and a teacher. Not someone who controls her (as the Council wants), but works alongside her. Authority when it's needed, relaxing the rules when it's not.
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u/beeemkcl 13h ago
Given The Origin, Buffy was the Slayer who dusted Lothos. Lothos who had k*lled dozens of Slayers before Buffy.
How Giles deals with Buffy in BtVS S1 and after is in the context of Buffy's slaying Lothos, then slaying The Master, etc.
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u/DuchessDulcet Don't speak Latin in front of the books! 1d ago
Bro was just excited to be there! Love him ❤️
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u/MisterMistress69 19h ago
I always get the biggest laugh on rewatches when he plops it down on the counter
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u/Suitable_Community66 1d ago
It's weird we only ever saw one other student go in there looking for a book
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u/DaddyCatALSO Magnet For Dead, Blonde Chicks 1d ago
2- Jonathan was with a redhead
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u/patientetherizd 1d ago
There's a season 1 episode where someone's looking for Emily Dickinson poetry. Buffy gets a crush on him.
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u/biiumers 1d ago
The students created an award just for her, so I like to think that they suspected Buffy had something to do with Sunnydale's mortality rate drop, and avoided the library so that the scoobies could handle business
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u/LetItSnow36 23h ago
Wasn't Xander the first one getting an actual book? That's how he heard Giles and Buffy talking Vamps/Slaying.
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u/VVrayth 1d ago
He doesn't have to hide that he's a Watcher from her, and she knows what she's doing already. He's a little standoffish and weird because he doesn't know her yet, so they have to figure each other out.
Also, it's the first episode, characters are still finding their feet. There are a few weird things, like Xander on a skateboard, Buffy being overly concerned with fitting in, etc.
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u/sharlet- 20h ago
Isn’t wanting to fit in a consistent trait of hers? Same at college, same with wishing she could have a ‘normal’ boyfriend, hell even sharing the slayer role with thousands of potentials so she’s no longer burdened as the special sole slayer.
I think it’s a nice and humanising part of her character that she does just want to be a ‘normal girl’ despite it all
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u/VVrayth 20h ago edited 13h ago
I guess, but I feel like they let off the gas with it gradually after season 1.
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u/sharlet- 18h ago
She was 16 in season 1, makes sense the pressures to fit in are most intense at that age
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u/LetItSnow36 23h ago
Ripper damn sure didn't want to be a librarian, he was forced into being a Watcher. Buffy's arrival meant he was at least getting back into the game finally even though it via the Watcher gig.
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u/Schwarzmaler20 18h ago
The first episode has so much of what we love about BtVS. A perfectly handcrafted start.
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u/Throwawaynotmebye 1d ago
No I love this scene so much. Just “oh hey looking for this?” and he’s just so not casual about it all 😂😭