“You think I just want attention?”
“No, I think you’re up in the clock tower with a high-powered rifle because you wanna blend in.”
Earshot
Towers have the same symbolic and practical effect in the Buffyverse as in stories in general.
The Gift plays the princess in the tower straight with Buffy storming up the stairs to save Dawn, so I probably would have used a quote from there if anybody actually said the word “tower” out loud.
We never get a wizard tower - we get some creepy isolated wizards but they stay in basements or occasionally mansions - so that could be a trope to play on.
Sunnydale doesn’t have skyscrapers. We leave that for L.A. in Angel, where they’re often used for their action movie purpose of characters getting thrown off them.
2.08: The Bigger They Are
Radio towers can also be used as improvised weapons against electricity dragons.
“Okay, the trick is to do this plan and not also die.”
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