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Title: Right Through You
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Co-Vidder: periru3
Music: "Right Through You" by Alanis Morissette
Length: 3:00
Summary: You took me for a joke — you took me for a child
Notes: Part 6 of Jagged Little Slayer

Copying my notes from AO3: This was a complex one to make! For one thing, it's hard to make a vid about all the ways the Watchers' Council fail Slayers when you love Rupert Giles...and it's hard to make a vid about that when Slayers other than Buffy have such limited footage to work with. We wanted to look at the way Slayers are instrumentalized by the Council — how they are manipulated, both patronized and forced to grow up too fast, used as weapons and sent to die.

And, of course, we were inspired by that scene in "Checkpoint":

Buffy: There isn't gonna be a review.
Quentin: Sorry?
Buffy: No review. No interrogation. No questions you know I can't answer. No hoops. No jumps. No interruptions. See, I've had a lot of people talking at me in the last few days. Everyone just lining up to tell me how unimportant I am. And I've finally figured out why. Power. I have it. They don't. This bothers them [...] You guys didn't come all the way from England to determine whether I was good enough to be let back in. You came to beg me to let you back in. To give your jobs, your lives, some semblance of meaning.
Nigel: This is beyond insolence—
Buffy: I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions. [...] You're Watchers. Without a Slayer... you're pretty much just watching Masterpiece Theater.