Same! I think that when I was a teenager it was more the case that I viewed Joyce as a typical cliche Mom character, but now that I'm older I second-guess her parenting a lot more. I guess that part of it is that Joss mainly used her character in the high school years as an obstacle for Buffy, and was writing from the teenage perspective of the frustrating parental figure who is completely oblivious to your struggles, and at times that didn't leave a lot of flexibility for Joyce's characterisation
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Date: 2015-05-10 08:50 pm (UTC)