frelling_tralk

I was rewatching the show recently and I assumed I'd have sympathy for Joyce now that I'm older, but actually, now that I'm 26, Joyce seems like a far worse parent than she ever did when I was 16. As a teenager I think you just accept that parents are unreasonable, but Joyce to me seemed unbelievably unhelpful and always suspecting Buffy to be in the wrong. She definitely seems to want to catch her out all the time and never listens to her. I have more sympathy for Joyce in S5, because I think in situations like that there sometimes are no solutions at all, and what Joyce came up with was maybe the best thing, but it does seem like too much for Buffy to handle.