Yeah I was just kind of thinking that, even though the show portrayed it as Joyce not fully understanding Buffy because of not being in know about her slayage and patrolling, even from Joyce's perspective was there really that much justification for her to treat Buffy as some kind of problem child? Buffy always seemed to be trying her hardest to not get her mother upset with her, so if anything she was a lot better behaved than the cliche of the teenager from hell flouncing from the room and whining at their parent, she was actually mostly pretty supportive of Joyce.
And all I remember is their talk in Listening To Fear (I think that was the episode, possibly it was Shadow?) of Joyce talking to Buffy about how she knows that Dawn is the Key, and asking Buffy to take care of Dawn of anything happens to Joyce. That seemed to be the extent of her plans? And it's explained in Flooded that Joyce's money had all been sucked up by hospital bills, so maybe she didn't realise that there wouldn't be any nest egg for Buffy to rely on? But even so, it was still expecting a lot for her 19 year old daughter to know how to cope with running a house and juggling bills, even if there had of been more money available.
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Date: 2015-05-07 06:48 pm (UTC)And all I remember is their talk in Listening To Fear (I think that was the episode, possibly it was Shadow?) of Joyce talking to Buffy about how she knows that Dawn is the Key, and asking Buffy to take care of Dawn of anything happens to Joyce. That seemed to be the extent of her plans? And it's explained in Flooded that Joyce's money had all been sucked up by hospital bills, so maybe she didn't realise that there wouldn't be any nest egg for Buffy to rely on? But even so, it was still expecting a lot for her 19 year old daughter to know how to cope with running a house and juggling bills, even if there had of been more money available.