The Watcher's Council decides to start being very patriarchal, and so the third Terrible Nerd of the Whedonverse is introduced
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
So, Giles is fired from the Watchers and replaced by Wesley Wyndham Pryce, whose actor married Willow's actress IRL
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Wesley Wyndham Pryce is even more of a condescending nerd, is bad at everything,but to his credit is not YET a serial murderer/torturer
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Now this season happened to air at the same time as the Columbine shootings. They happened to have an episode introducing Shitty Male Nerd 4
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Shitty Male Nerd 4 is a lonely boy named Jonathan who plans to shoot everyone with a sniper rifle. This episode was scheduled to air around
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April 20, 1999, but obviously did not. It was instead delayed and some of the gun stuff was cut
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Jonathan isn't really very important now Buffy talks him out of mass murderand he remains not a mass murderer for the rest of his short life
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He never intended to be a mass murderer, he intended to kill himself
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He intended to do this using a rifle from the highest point in the school for no clear reason, yes, but it's still a plot point
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I headcanon it as it was the only gun (a hunting rifle) he could get his hands on and he hoped his body would fall down and make a scene
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And/or he subconsciously wanted to be seen and stopped
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