👱♀️I had a dream last night that Giles a) was real b) was still in his 40s and most importantly, c) owned a really beautiful indie bookstore. I wanted to hang out there a lot. It was in this really beautiful little city center shopping district area. Later in the dream, I discovered the whole district - the whole town, really - was embedded in a Disney resort. And I had to decide if I still loved it now that I knew it wasn’t actually indie.
Kimberly Hirsh
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That is fascinating! It also makes me think that Giles should have been a bookstore owner (with a significant esoterica section in the back for the magically-inclined). I was never a fan of the magic shop. I suppose that would have curtailed Anya's employment prospects, because I can't see her as a bookseller.
@jean There was an inside joke on the Bronze Posting Board about the boogedy boogedy shopkeeper referenced by Angelus in the Season 2 episode, Passion. There's a store Jenny Calendar goes to where she buys the Orb needed to restore Angel's soul. Drusilla is shown attacking the owner of this store and episode summaries claim she killed him but he is actually a Schrodinger's shopkeeper, because his corpse is never seen. So Bronzers would debate over whether the BBS, as we called him, was alive or dead. The Magic Box is a different shop (though in an earlier iteration it also stocked the orb), but Dawn asks Tara if Mr. Bogarty is dead. It's revealed that he has been killed by vampires. This is fun because it kind of settles the debate in both directions: this partcular BBS, Mr. Bogarty, is now dead. But he was not killed by Drusilla. Anyway, part of me always thinks that having Giles take over the magic shop was a long way to go for this inside joke, but the writers probably had some other motivations for it as well. How cool would it be for Giles to own a bookstore-record store-cafe-performance space?