Don't get me wrong, I think the whole point is to make this a "fatherless" child so Buffy can be a single mother. But here are the options:
1) Buffy and X are drunk as skunks, they have sex - consensually, and neither remember the next day. Is it dubious consent or bad judgment? 2) Buffy and X are drunk as skunks. Buffy comes ON to X and she seduces him. Could happen. She was seriously in a self-destructive behavior. In that case is it really dubious consent or just bad judgment? 3) Buffy and X are drunk as skunks. X comes on to Buffy and she resists him ---- oh wait, that means X is in the hospital because she could have put him thru the wall --- unrealistic scenario IMO. Remember how scared Giles and Xander were of Buffy in Bad Beer? She doesn't lose her abilities. 4) Buffy and X are drunk but Buffy is passed out. X is less drunk and has his way with Buffy. Now this is rape, not even dubious. 5) Buffy and X are drunk but X is more coherent. X seduces Buffy who goes along because she is feeling depressed and unloved. In this case I'll call dubious consent if X uses her depression.
So....I think the point of this is that there are at least two out of four realistic scenarios that make this bad judgment but not dubious. JMO.
I agree it's a shitty approach but I don't think it's a fascination with dubious consent. I think the objective was to make the father an absentee dad.
We don't actually know if it was dubious consent do we?
1) Buffy and X are drunk as skunks, they have sex - consensually, and neither remember the next day. Is it dubious consent or bad judgment?
2) Buffy and X are drunk as skunks. Buffy comes ON to X and she seduces him. Could happen. She was seriously in a self-destructive behavior. In that case is it really dubious consent or just bad judgment?
3) Buffy and X are drunk as skunks. X comes on to Buffy and she resists him ---- oh wait, that means X is in the hospital because she could have put him thru the wall --- unrealistic scenario IMO. Remember how scared Giles and Xander were of Buffy in Bad Beer? She doesn't lose her abilities.
4) Buffy and X are drunk but Buffy is passed out. X is less drunk and has his way with Buffy. Now this is rape, not even dubious.
5) Buffy and X are drunk but X is more coherent. X seduces Buffy who goes along because she is feeling depressed and unloved. In this case I'll call dubious consent if X uses her depression.
So....I think the point of this is that there are at least two out of four realistic scenarios that make this bad judgment but not dubious. JMO.
I agree it's a shitty approach but I don't think it's a fascination with dubious consent. I think the objective was to make the father an absentee dad.