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The first warning sign of a justifying edit (which is value neutral as far as I\'m aware, so I don\'t get how it can be \
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The first warning sign of a justifying edit (which is value neutral as far as I\\\'m aware, so I don\\\'t get how it can be \\\"harsh\\\"--it\\\'s not like a called you an idiot or anything) is that it looks like it\\\'s based on guesswork, and saying \\\"It\\\'s perfectly possible....\\\" is guesswork.
Something like this still needs to be justified \\\'\\\'in the episode itself\\\'\\\'. We knock exposition, but it\\\'s actually very valuable to storytelling when the story is in danger of being unclear or contradictory. Having Spike say \\\"My fire breath isn\\\'t powerful enough to burn timberwolves!\\\" (it\\\'s not like he didn\\\'t spend the whole scene up to that point talking to himself) or even more simply, having him try to torch them and fail would explain why he doesn\\\'t use his powers to get himself out of danger. Otherwise, it just seems like he forgot about the fact that he\\\'s toting around a flamethrower.
As for the power of his fire breath, it\\\'s never been especially consistent. In \\\'\\\'Over A Barrel\\\'\\\', he can shoot a stream of flame across a train car and instantly pop a popcorn kernel, so that\\\'s what? About 400 degrees at a distance of fifteen feet? The burning point of wood is 500-something, so whether he can up the temperature another 150 degrees is debatable.
Just not on the main page.
Something like this still needs to be justified \\\'\\\'in the episode itself\\\'\\\'. We knock exposition, but it\\\'s actually very valuable to storytelling when the story is in danger of being unclear or contradictory. Having Spike say \\\"My fire breath isn\\\'t powerful enough to burn timberwolves!\\\" (it\\\'s not like he didn\\\'t spend the whole scene up to that point talking to himself) or even more simply, having him try to torch them and fail would explain why he doesn\\\'t use his powers to get himself out of danger. Otherwise, it just seems like he forgot about the fact that he\\\'s toting around a flamethrower.
As for the power of his fire breath, it\\\'s never been especially consistent. In \\\'\\\'Over A Barrel\\\'\\\', he can shoot a stream of flame across a train car and instantly pop a popcorn kernel, so that\\\'s what? About 400 degrees at a distance of fifteen feet? The burning point of wood is 500-something, so whether he can up the temperature another 150 degrees is debatable.
Just not on the main page.
