Vid: Giles - Tears in Heaven (FRC)

[gilescandy.livejournal.com]

Yay!  It's my day.  For my first offering this summer I will be making you all cry.  (Evil Cackling)

Rupert Giles - Tears in Heaven

Sometimes when it's quiet Giles remembers those he's lost.  There are many.



You all know somebody had to do it at some point...  Enjoy!

Comments

You made me cry for Quentin Travers! That's not okay!

[protoneoromanic.livejournal.com]

This is sort of what I was trying to say with this little thing that I wrote for the Haiku day last year. http://archiveofourown.org/works/1762937
Fair to say you said it better.

RE: You made me cry for Quentin Travers! That's not okay!

[gilescandy.livejournal.com]

If this made you cry for Travers, I can't wait to see what you make of what I have in store this summer. hehehe.

In the commentary for Helpless, Joss talked about how he wanted Travers to have a mentor relationship with Giles that kind of mirrored the Buffy-Giles relationship. He just never had time to pull that off. But I think you can still see a little in the background with the way Tony and Harris played off of each other. The Watchers were such a big part of Giles life that I think he mourned all of them. And he worked so hard to save the Potentials, he felt every one of their deaths, too.

Took me an extra read through, but I see what you're saying about the Haiku.

Re: You made me cry for Quentin Travers! That's not okay!

[protoneoromanic.livejournal.com]

That wasn't Joss, it was David Fury, who invented Quentin and most of what little we know about the structure of the Council from the show, I think including the name "Watcher's Council". Which is why I thanked him psecifically in the notes to All Things Proceed From Passion, in which Quentin ifgures as a major character and the relationship between Giles and the Council in a major theme, particularly in Who Do You Think You Are?. even though there are tonns of other Buffy writers and producers I could have mentioned. And when I say invented... he wasn't even on staff. This wasn't a script Joss or David Greenwald or Marti Noxin gave him to write with the story lined out; he made this shit up and it became so instantly central to canon that I'm convinced the whole concept of the shaddow men and the relationship between the Council's 'creation' of the Slayer and her own natural awesomeness and right to choose rather than being chosen that we see in the season seven story arc results. Which means, there is also NO FIREFLY AS WE KNOW IT without David Fury having interacted with teh Whedonvere in this episode to create this character. Fury is a Major God in my Whedonvrese Pantheon.

RE: Re: You made me cry for Quentin Travers! That's not okay!

[gilescandy.livejournal.com]

Well, I should know better than to pull a fact out of my ageing brain around here without checking it first, shouldn't I? On the other hand, I think I just found the only other person in the world who might have a Tiny soft spot for Travers.

Re: Re: You made me cry for Quentin Travers! That's not okay!

[protoneoromanic.livejournal.com]

LOL, ya think? The headline to my orginal comment was pretty tongue in cheeck, but text is what it is. Should have used one of those doubious sarcarm marks I'm always advocating for. Sigh, oh well. Have you read Who Do You Think You Are? QT is a total villain in it... and yet, not for nothing. Plus, he has a family. There's family feels. In fact, I felt a little guilty going as dark with his character as I did, b/c I think it stretches canon, and in the same direction people tend to stretch with this character. Kind of the way they do with Hank, who I'm forever rescuing. But it suited my plot, and of course I went kind of dark with the whole Council (which you probably noticed in Blood Screaming) so I think it works.