Comments on: Why did he call him Ripper? http://elizabuffy.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/why-did-he-call-him-ripper/ A place to talk about my Dissertation and Buffy Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:41:32 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: elizabuffy http://elizabuffy.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/why-did-he-call-him-ripper/#comment-304 elizabuffy Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:50:10 +0000 http://elizabuffy.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/why-did-he-call-him-ripper/#comment-304 ha! thanks for the link. I love the thought of Giles as Jack the Ripper. ha! thanks for the link. I love the thought of Giles as Jack the Ripper.

]]> By: Chris http://elizabuffy.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/why-did-he-call-him-ripper/#comment-303 Chris Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:47:55 +0000 http://elizabuffy.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/why-did-he-call-him-ripper/#comment-303 You need to read the bottom half of this webpage talking about Ripper: http://tenser.typepad.com/tenser_said_the_tensor/2005/05/imagining_a_bet.html There are no stupid questions, just stupid people! You need to read the bottom half of this webpage talking about Ripper:

http://tenser.typepad.com/tenser_said_the_tensor/2005/05/imagining_a_bet.html

There are no stupid questions, just stupid people!

]]> By: elizabuffy http://elizabuffy.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/why-did-he-call-him-ripper/#comment-299 elizabuffy Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:03:59 +0000 http://elizabuffy.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/why-did-he-call-him-ripper/#comment-299 Man, if I did lose all my audience I'd understand why -- that was a crappy post! This comment got my wheels turning and my thoughts were too long for a comment so I made a new post about it -- check it out. Man, if I did lose all my audience I’d understand why — that was a crappy post!

This comment got my wheels turning and my thoughts were too long for a comment so I made a new post about it — check it out.

]]> By: Chris http://elizabuffy.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/why-did-he-call-him-ripper/#comment-298 Chris Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:05:18 +0000 http://elizabuffy.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/why-did-he-call-him-ripper/#comment-298 You'll be pleased to know that you have not lost your entire readership...let's face it, what else am I goign to do between 9-5? Anyway, I watched this episode just the other day, and of course there is the clear link with the much loved Halloween episode, once again we get to see in to the darkness of Giles. I find it odd in many ways when Giles talks about not being very good with magic (towards the end of this season), given that we know that he used to dabble in the black arts. I do not really like the relationship dynamic that this episode shows between Buffy and Giles (granted that it is a difficult realtionship to characterize, given the friend dynamic vis-a-vis the father- daughter dynamic), his whole do as I say don't do as I do attitude is quite infuriating, this also comes up again later in the season. Granted, Giles is very understanding with Buffy later-on in the season when she releases Angelus, but I think that there is a bit of a difference between a 16 year old sleaping with her boyfriend and accidentally releasing his inner-demon, and a 20 year old Oxford student intentionally summoninig a demon in order to get high. Did giles et al. really create the demon, I thought that they merely brought it out of the ether...I seem to recall that in the episode were buffy is brought back from the dead, that willow says that the demon who came with her as a consequence of the spell, was not created, as that is impossible, it already existed and merely tagged along for the ride. Why do/did they call him ripper? You’ll be pleased to know that you have not lost your entire readership…let’s face it, what else am I goign to do between 9-5? Anyway, I watched this episode just the other day, and of course there is the clear link with the much loved Halloween episode, once again we get to see in to the darkness of Giles. I find it odd in many ways when Giles talks about not being very good with magic (towards the end of this season), given that we know that he used to dabble in the black arts.
I do not really like the relationship dynamic that this episode shows between Buffy and Giles (granted that it is a difficult realtionship to characterize, given the friend dynamic vis-a-vis the father- daughter dynamic), his whole do as I say don’t do as I do attitude is quite infuriating, this also comes up again later in the season. Granted, Giles is very understanding with Buffy later-on in the season when she releases Angelus, but I think that there is a bit of a difference between a 16 year old sleaping with her boyfriend and accidentally releasing his inner-demon, and a 20 year old Oxford student intentionally summoninig a demon in order to get high.
Did giles et al. really create the demon, I thought that they merely brought it out of the ether…I seem to recall that in the episode were buffy is brought back from the dead, that willow says that the demon who came with her as a consequence of the spell, was not created, as that is impossible, it already existed and merely tagged along for the ride.

Why do/did they call him ripper?

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