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Date Posted: 16:01:51 08/01/02 Thu
Author: Amaltheia
Subject: Re: Watchers: black, white or grey
In reply to: Robert 's message, "Watchers: black, white or grey" on 06:36:14 07/23/02 Tue

I also think that the Watchers are overall good guys, with the few corrupted souls thrown in. And I don't think Travers is evil either. I just think they've got a little stuck in the past, (OK maybe a lot), and are now a little removed from reality.

I'd also imagine that the events in Checkpoint have caused a reassement of how they run things and maybe even an overhaul.

Fics where the Watchers are all evil psychos really do annoy me - they seem to be particularly prevalent within the B/G 'ship. I think that Travers is normally pissed off that his wife fancies Giles. Either that or he's trying to kidnapp Buffy and Giles' baby. I really want to read some sympathetic Travers fic - and not sympathetic 'cos he's pathetic either.

Anyway... So... Watchers Not Bad. Travers Not Evil.

Amaltheia

PS Jaqui please tell me your not relocation Giles from Bath? Everyone keeps on moving him into London and as a Bathonian it really annoys me. If Bath's good enough for Tony, then it's good enough for Giles. (If you want any info on Bath I be more than happy to provide.)

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[> [> Re: Watchers: black, white or grey -- Jacqui, 04:19:09 08/02/02 Fri

I'm starting him off in Bath (at one of the churchyard cafe's by the Pump rooms, sipping coffee waiting for some people). But I'm basing it in Devon on Dartmoor. You remember in the S6 final Giles mentions a coven in Devon informed him of what is happening, lent him their power and teleported him to Sunnydale; I asked the question of myself how do these people living about 100 miles from Bath know him and why do they think he is the one to deal with this problem, let alone trust him enough to give him access to a large amount of their power? So not much on Bath, quite a bit about SW Dartmoor.

>PS Jaqui please tell me your not relocation Giles from
>Bath? Everyone keeps on moving him into London and as
>a Bathonian it really annoys me. If Bath's good
>enough for Tony, then it's good enough for Giles. (If
>you want any info on Bath I be more than happy to
>provide.)

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[> [> Death Brings Clarity does it quite well, I think. -- Ruth, 16:03:12 03/22/03 Sat

>I also think that the Watchers are overall good guys,
>with the few corrupted souls thrown in. And I don't
>think Travers is evil either. I just think they've
>got a little stuck in the past, (OK maybe a lot), and
>are now a little removed from reality.
>

Me too. Good intentions but hidebound by too much tradition and too little field experience or too long ago at the top.
For pretty sympathetic Travers see JK Philip's major oeuvre as per post title.

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