Exactly. I think Giles' reasons for leaving make total sense, if Buffy were a healthy, stable woman who was capable of being self-sufficient and just needed a push toward independence. But she's not - she's completely incapable of doing anything but barely surviving, which makes Giles' departure absolutely the wrong thing at that point.
When he sings "Standing," he doesn't realize how depressed Buffy is, so it's understandable that he would see her as relying on him too much and want to remove himself. But once she reveals that she had been in heaven, I do feel like he ought to have figured out that this isn't a normal "not wanting to grow up/take responsibility" issue, and reconsidered leaving just then.
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Date: 2009-08-03 04:08 pm (UTC)When he sings "Standing," he doesn't realize how depressed Buffy is, so it's understandable that he would see her as relying on him too much and want to remove himself. But once she reveals that she had been in heaven, I do feel like he ought to have figured out that this isn't a normal "not wanting to grow up/take responsibility" issue, and reconsidered leaving just then.