frelling_tralk

That's fair, and I can understand Joyce being on edge when they first moved to Sunnydale and she was waiting to see how Buffy would settle in there, but it just seemed like it was never really something that she dropped, even when Buffy seemed to be completely over whatever caused her to act up in her old school. If Buffy really had of got involved with ~bad kids~ and committed arson, as opposed to really being the slayer, I wonder how much Joyce's attitude would have hindered her from not going back to her old ways? Because it seemed like it was always something that Joyce was half-expecting to happen, even when Buffy was hanging out with geeky kids like Xander and Willow, not to mention Joyce discovering that Buffy was friendly with the school librarian in Angel. Doesn't exactly scream delinquent :P