In the world of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer there are two kinds of people*: those who understand how and why Giles is a hot piece of arse and those who don't. It hardly needs to be said that I belong in the former camp.Fucking Giles, eh? I could eat him up with a spoon. I could pack him into a bong (if I ever smoked, Mum, which obviously I never ever have) and smoke the fucker. I could skin him, make him into a pair of pajamas and wear him every night.
Er, yes, quite.
A friend of mine recently suggested he was a bit of a Giles. Hmm yes, I said politely, there's certainly a resemblance. Which there (kind of) is. But the way Giles looks, in or out of a delicious tweed three piecer is almost irrelevant. Giles is awesome not because of his (relatively) sleek figure, his ridiculously posh-caramel accent, his unbearably tasty suits or even his giant brain but from a combination of all of the above. Cadging all the best lines, working the father-figure thing without actually being a creepy, um, father figure. Being completely awesome All. The. Time. This is the reality that is Giles.
Is there a better Buffy moment than in one of the final episodes of Season Three in which he nails the deliver on a cold one-liner to his douchebag repalcement ("For God sake, man, she's 18 and you have the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone")?? I think not. Unless it's the episode where he reverts to being a bad-arse teenager (the white t-shirt with the cigarettes in the sleeve... the accent... bloody hell). If I had teachers like this I would never have left school
*Actually there are three kinds of people including those who just don't like Buffy. But these people I fear I simply don't understand. Get on the train or stay off the tracks, friends.
Don't you mean "former" rather than "latter" - or have I been getting it wrong all these years.......
ReplyDeleteGiles is ok, I guess. Obviously he's no Cordeilia ;-)
Hah whoops!
ReplyDeleteCordelia? Hee. She comes from the 90210 school, by which I mean she's 32 if she's a day...
No.
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This isn't normal.
Aw come on Dans - the man's a stone fox. Plus you just know he keeps his waistcoat on the whole time...
ReplyDeleteAnd you know he has a bad-ass side - Ripper! lols
ReplyDeleteExcuse me I need to take a cold shower. For the next 2 years.
ReplyDeleteIs it bad that I fell for Dawn pretty much straight away? I mean she was the same age (almost) as Buffy when the show began...way to inject some life into a flagging series! It worked wonders...and little Dawn was pretty hot!
ReplyDeleteEw, dude. She may have been the same age as Buffy was at the start but I believe YOU, Sir, were a good five years older... I'm just sayin'...
ReplyDeleteI sort of nursed a major crush on Seth Green as Oz though so, um, maybe I can't talk.
not really...Seth Green was like 40 when he was in Buffy right?
ReplyDeleteHe-ey! He was 18... he just looked 40...
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