i don't understand how you can say that. Joyce is like Buffy's first anchor to reality. Plus most parents are a lot worse with much less. Her daughter sneaks out, gets kicked out of school, gets into these deep fits of depression and random outbursts of anger, they had to move so that she could actually graduate, she comes home bruised and bloody, and Joyce never gets any explaination for any of this. And then all of the sudden she finds out that her daughter goes out and faces mythical creatures in battles to the death once or twice a day and if she doesn't go out and fight that very second the world will be sucked into hell. How exactly would you react. Can you honestly tell me that you've never said something that you wish you could take back later in a moment of hurt, angry, scared confussion? And then when Buffy comes back she doesn't try to fix things, she doesn't try to explain the slayer thing a little bit more, she just expects Joyce to go back to her ask no questions tell me no lies norm. After everything that happened, I think that Joyce earned herself the right to talk about her feelings since all Buffy does in season three is mope and whine. And for the next three seasons, Joyce becomes Buffy's anchor to reality and family. After the Body, Buffy starts this downhill slope that Joyce would have stopped in a heartbeat.
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