Valyssia

In which season does Normal Again appear?

Season six, episode seventeen.

All of your points about Southern California are fascinating. Being from the east coast myself, they aren't things that I ever would have thought of.

I'm from the Midwest. I've just traveled a little and known people from all over.

The basement thing came up when I beta'd a story written by a lady from San Diego. She had a character fire a gun in a basement. I asked her how many people she had intended to kill. We talked my observation over and she got the idea that the bullet would ricochet willy-nilly to hell and gone. She'd lived in SoCal her entire life and had never been in a basement.

Fascinating stuff.

I verified the detail with Whedonist last night, who lives the L.A. area. She wasn't aware of any ordinances, but she assumed they existed because she'd never been in a basement in SoCal either. They don't exist except in the fictional town of Sunnydale. The reasoning is sensible. Earthquake country. Nuff said.

So you're suggesting that, at least in your story, Sunnydale itself was created as a place where Buffy would belong? *huge grin* That's awesome!

Yeah, that was my thought and the drive behind the piece. It's Band-Aid to slap over canon. A relatively tiny one considering all of the things it fixes.

Thanks. *hugs*