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Can someone explain to me why Hank Summers wasn’t told his daughter died at the end of season five? Yes, he missed his ex-wife’s funeral and the chance to support his children. Yes, that doesn’t paint him in the most flattering light, but the Hank Summers we meet in season one and at the beginning of season two after he spent the entire summer with his daughter was not the same character that ignored that child’s eighteenth birthday.
Parents don’t suddenly go from caring to not. I’ve always wondered if perhaps Buffy was suppose to spend the summer with her father again between seasons two and three and Joyce feared him suing for full custody if he learned of Buffy’s disappearance so she told him Buffy wanted nothing to do with him and to please allow their daughter the chance to build a life without him. Granted this is pure speculation, but it makes sense because Buffy spent time with her father during the Thanksgiving break her freshmen year of college which if he was such a horrible person and terrible father then I doubt she’d have wanted to spend time with him once she turned eighteen and wasn’t forced to by the courts.
But back to my original thought. I think someone like Hank would have been a good influence for Dawn after Buffy’s death and perhaps he would have noticed her downward spiral just as he noticed how introverted Buffy was during the summer she spent with him. He wasn’t a terrible person and Dawn growing more attached to her father would have made more sense then allowing her to continue the unhealthy attachment she had with the BuffyBot.
What? So I like Hank. :P
Parents don’t suddenly go from caring to not. I’ve always wondered if perhaps Buffy was suppose to spend the summer with her father again between seasons two and three and Joyce feared him suing for full custody if he learned of Buffy’s disappearance so she told him Buffy wanted nothing to do with him and to please allow their daughter the chance to build a life without him. Granted this is pure speculation, but it makes sense because Buffy spent time with her father during the Thanksgiving break her freshmen year of college which if he was such a horrible person and terrible father then I doubt she’d have wanted to spend time with him once she turned eighteen and wasn’t forced to by the courts.
But back to my original thought. I think someone like Hank would have been a good influence for Dawn after Buffy’s death and perhaps he would have noticed her downward spiral just as he noticed how introverted Buffy was during the summer she spent with him. He wasn’t a terrible person and Dawn growing more attached to her father would have made more sense then allowing her to continue the unhealthy attachment she had with the BuffyBot.
What? So I like Hank. :P
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Good times!