Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Headscratchers/Season 3: Difference between revisions

* This is a minor thing but it always bugged me: if Johnathan was going up to the bell tower to kill himself in Earshot, why did he have that big, high-powered, rifle? It seem to me if someone (especially someone as short as Johnathan) tried to shoot himself with that gun, he'd bumble around, make a complete mess of the whole task, and most likely leave himself horribly maimed instead of dead.

** My god, that was so weird. How could you even aim a rifle like that at yourself? With a scope and everything? What was he going to do, shoot his foot and bleed to death?

** No idea where he even ''got'' a rifle like that (then again, this is Sunnydale), but it's not like Jonathan is supposed to have tons of common sense. Without knowing a lot about guns, he probably would have gone with whatever he thought [[Rule of Cool|looked coolest]]-- or maybe he assumed using the most powerful thing he could get his hands on would decrease his chance surviving, or having time to experience pain -- or maybe he just hated life so much that he felt that merely dying would be insufficient, and that only [[No Kill Like Overkill|splattering his entire head against the wall like a Gallagherian watermelon]] would suffice. Whichever you pick, it kind of underscores how little he's thought this through, [[Fridge Brilliance|which is oddly appropriate to the scene]].

** Also why go to the clocktower?