frelling_tralk

That's fair, I would definitely agree that Joyce and Buffy are portrayed as loving one another very much and being close, but Joyce's parenting just really bugged me at times because I got the sense that the show did endorse it, and wanted us to see her actions as being understandable because of not knowing the full supernatural truth. But even looking at it from an outside perspective of not knowing that Buffy is the slayer, I still don't get why Joyce had reason to act so distrustful of her, Buffy was so far from the cliched teenager from hell. (The show even kind of joked about that in Band Candy when the candy made all of the adults act like irresponsible idiots, but the actual teenagers on the show never act like that as Willow indignantly points out)