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I always kind of watched it from Buffy's PoV definitely, but there was also always that sense that the writers wanted us to see Joyce as having every right to act so frustrated from her PoV as Buffy couldn't let her know what was really going on, but even so a lot her reactions seem to be unfairly coloured by what Buffy had got up too in LA. Not too dissimilar from both principals bringing up that Buffy burned down a school building at her old school, and Buffy being so pleasantly surprised in Teacher's Pet when a teacher said that he wasn't going to listen to what Principal Flutie was saying about her, but it seemed like Joyce had a similar attitude of never being able let it go that I hope we're not going to have your old issues coming up again

I can appreciate Joyce taking a hardline approach in LA to the Buffy that was apparently joining a gang, setting fire to buildings, and then getting expelled from school, but Sunnydale Buffy never gave Joyce any reason to distrust her as much as she did IMO, there really was every indication that Buffy was trying to turn over a new leaf and hang out with different kinds of people