I guess I never picked up on DB's acting in the scene.
It annoyed me more in earlier seasons when I felt like they were trying to show her being a good mother, or cast her in a sympathetic light, and all it looked like to me was she was fucking up her kid.
I tended not to notice her, in part, because Buffy was stepping past her. Joyce can be a real mixed bag. There are times when she's great - in the scenes with Snyder. But there are scenes where it's off. Where it does come across to me more about Joyce trying to be the role of parent rather than Joyce's genuine involvement with Buffy. I'd probably have to rewatch for that.
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It annoyed me more in earlier seasons when I felt like they were trying to show her being a good mother, or cast her in a sympathetic light, and all it looked like to me was she was fucking up her kid.
I tended not to notice her, in part, because Buffy was stepping past her. Joyce can be a real mixed bag. There are times when she's great - in the scenes with Snyder. But there are scenes where it's off. Where it does come across to me more about Joyce trying to be the role of parent rather than Joyce's genuine involvement with Buffy. I'd probably have to rewatch for that.