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[spoiler]Yesterday's quote:
Ep #997 (1970PT) - Yaeger - 'That's an invaluable thing to know-- something you MUST learn unless... unless you want to live the rest of your life like this.'
From "#0996/0997: Robservations 06/25/03: Yaeger & Buffy"
Caught in Yaeger's strangling grip, Buffie battles for her life, begging, let me go! Why should I let go? demands Yaeger, you're like all the others--you have to be trained. She frees herself, pushing his arms away. Like a dog, you have to be hit to learn, he insists. He pulls her arms behind her back. Let me go! she cries. You haven't learned your lesson yet, he says. You're hurting me! she protests. Just a little, says Yaeger, just so you'll learn to do what I say--you will, won't you? He wrenches her arms painfully behind her back. Yes, she says, falling into a chair, crying. He lifts up her head, gazes into her face and observes, how pretty your tears are. You're insane! she cries. I'm not, he says, I know how to live, how to get things from people, how to make anyone do as I say--an invaluable thing to know, something you must learn unless you want to live the rest of your life like this--you don't, do you? What do you mean? she asks, facing him. I want to give you the finest things, he says--money, furs, and riches--I'll give you anything, I want to make sure that you have everything. She pushes him away and stands. You don't want me to know how much you want them, do you? he asks breathlessly, laughing--I know you better than you know yourself, and you'll know that soon. You don't know me at all! cries Buffie angrily.
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The Yaeger/Buffie relationship is so twisted. Obviously that's to show that Yaeger and Cyrus as so different and Cyrus totally failed in his mission to "bring out the best in man"- but whoa! - Yaeger is beyond psychotic!! I seriously wonder if any show nowadays could get away with some of the things Yaeger does and says. "You're like a dog, you have to be hit to learn"!?!?! So totally beyond the pale!!
And that isn't even the worst of it...