Safe to say that "THEN UNBUILD THEM" was an impossible demand?

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The monk was dieing, and the last of his order, I GET that buffy had a right to feel violated, but thats not what Im asking.

Is it safe to say the Demand was laughably impossible at that point?
 
It was a purely emotional response. She found out that a major part of her life had been a lie.
I think its completely understandable that Buffy would at least think about not wanting to cope with any of those implications for about five seconds.

Of course then the realisation kicks in and then she goes home and apologises to Dawn for her behaviour, comforts her and then calls Giles, tells him the truth.
So Buffy does the sensible, noble thing in the end, which I guess is the point.

Although, having just watched this episode, its possible I'm totally wrong and am just too distracted by Buffy's gorgeous hair. 😀

I mean really, she looks terrific, how could anybody leave that hair and that face? (And the rest...)
S5 Riley is just a big doofus.
 
[MENTION=12655]Still a Scoobie[/MENTION] has hit the nail on the head.

Buffy is not thinking clearly at this point in time. In fact, I'll bet big money that Buffy KNOWS it's not a conceivable thing that she's asking, she knows it's not a rational request. But she's just found out that the most personal thing in the whole world - her mind - has just been violated against her will, and the minds of everyone she and her parents have ever reasonable come into contact with. She has every right to make that demand, even though she knows it's futile.

Yes, it probably wasn't going to be possible to comply with Buffy's request. Laughably impossible? No, I wouldn't go that far. At this point, I don't think Buffy actually knows that the monk is the last of his order. Plus, monk, it's not like they're a dying breed. There might have been other monks out there that were not of the same order as this one, but who might have been able to carry out Buffy's request, IF she'd gotten the information out of this monk. There might have been monks who knew about Glory and the Key, but didn't actively strive for its protection.

Now, in saying all that, Buffy's request, as we mentioned, was in the heat of the moment, she hadn't thought everything through. I doubt very much that, at this point in time, Buffy would have gone through with her request if she'd been able to had she realized what the outcome would have been.
 
[MENTION=12380]CordelliasHeart[/MENTION]
Is it safe to say the Demand was laughably impossible at that point?
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Only if you're not particularly familiar with how spells work in Buffyverse. Here are the two most popular methods of breaking a spell performed onscreen countless times by multitude of characters:
1. Say "Let the spell be ended"
2. Destroy a magical artifact.

Done.

Buffy's reaction stems from experience and is actually completely rational considering how easy breaking spells turned out to be in the past.
 
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A curious note... Buffys significantly less outraged at the end of superstar

My guess is because all Johnathan did was create a public icon

Creating a Familial role is a lot more intimate a violation of ones identity then getting one to believe in a public icon that never existed...
 
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