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Giles is not in the episode Potential as he is in Shanghai picking up Chao-Ahn, a new potential Slayer. Also missing is the potential Slayer Chloe, though no explanation is given for this. |
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| Suggested by: | › superdinosaurboy |
| Added: | › 18th May 2005 |
| Updated: | › 3rd August, 2005 |
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June 26th, 2005 at 6:36 am
Where do you think Giles gets all this money for air fare? I mean, flying back and forth from England to California (at least 4 times) and all over the world to get potential slayers. He was a paid watcher for Buffy for only a bit over 2 years and had other employment as a high school librarian and a magick shop owner. Plus, he gave that check to Buffy (which was sold on eBay and was written for $10,000.00). Just a thought! :)
June 27th, 2005 at 7:45 am
He got reimbursed from when he got fired in the Season 5 episode, Checkpoint. The council paid him from when they fired him and paid him full wages from then on.
June 27th, 2005 at 9:01 pm
Thats true, but really. How much do watchers get paid? Maybe his family was wealthy or he had a stash hid away or something. I am just saying Giles sure does have a lot of money for all these trips! :)
July 3rd, 2005 at 11:36 am
Flats in Bath aren’t that cheap either. The Watcher’s Council must pay very well.
July 3rd, 2005 at 1:48 pm
Sorry to stray a little here but wouldn’t you think the Watcher’s council would pay the slayer some sort of allowance. Save them slinging burgers.
July 4th, 2005 at 7:47 am
Probably not. Mainly because they infected the first slayer with a demon so i don’t think they really care all that much. Maybe they wanted the slayer to learn all about life and not take things for granted.
July 4th, 2005 at 9:05 pm
I’m surprised that the watchers got paid! The council doesn’t really care about the slayers. They are just “instruments” the council uses to fight the war. They probably only pay the watchers because Quentin wanted to get payed!
Also, they might figure the slayer is chosen out of destiny while a watcher is a career you can pick (maybe Giles circumstance was special). Also, not that a watcher is going to live a long life but it is probably going to be a lot longer then a slayer so they figure, ‘Why pay her? She is going to die soon anyway and not get to spend the money!’
November 1st, 2005 at 5:30 pm
I would have thought that the Watchers Council paid for all of Giles’s trips around the world considering he’s doing all of that to save the Slayer line which the Watchers Council are supposed to be doing themselves.
November 1st, 2005 at 5:45 pm
Actually when Xander says that he paid Willy in Season 3 he asks Giles if the council reimburse and Giles says “did you get a receipt?” Xander says “Damn”.
I presume that Giles keeps his receipts.
November 2nd, 2005 at 1:06 am
Well, he’s pretty smart
November 2nd, 2005 at 1:22 am
Yeah, MagicBone and ant4buffy. Remember, we find out in Angel the only reason Wesley he didn’t go back to England at the end of Buffy’s 3rd season was because of the council wouldn’t pay for his ticket. I guess it is like taking a business trip: If you have to travel, whatever you spend, you get reimbersed (I don’t think I spelled that right).
November 2nd, 2005 at 1:24 am
Was Wesley fired because he was Buffy’s Watcher when she decided not to “work” for the Council anymore?
Abby M, I think it’s reimbursed, with a U
January 20th, 2006 at 7:17 am
um..back to the original topic..
Where was Chloe in this episode?!
January 20th, 2006 at 11:38 pm
Maybe she was off in a corner being tortured by the first…
January 21st, 2006 at 3:05 am
You’d have thought Giles might have thrown a bit of cash in Buffy’s direction (before he gave her that cheque) considering he’s been earning the money from the W. Council because of her. Tut.
January 21st, 2006 at 7:13 am
Maybe he was being extremely stuffy, he gets all ‘flustered’ when it comes to things like that.
March 15th, 2006 at 1:16 am
It doesn’t matter if the Council reimburses because in season 7 when Giles is doing all this traveling the watchers council has already been destroyed. Maybe he is just running up his credit card thinking the world might end anyway.