Post by stargazer1682 on Dec 2, 2018 20:25:10 GMT
What happened with Joyce's gallery? It's never quite clear if it was owned by Joyce, but I think it's likely, given some of the facts about the gallery. In the very first episode Joyce talks about them being close to finding a location; so she it's not like she came to Sunnydale as the result of an offer to fill a position at a job that already existed. The gallery was starting from the ground up, and Joyce was leading the effort. Joyce also frequently uses her own home to store crates of display pieces, both in the room that would become Dawn's room, as well as Buffy's when Buffy is away at college. This latter point doesn't strictly speak to ownership of the gallery, but seems more likely than if she were simply a high level employee.
My guess would be that prior to Sunnydale, Joyce was an art dealer or someone who worked in a high level position for a gallery in LA; and upon moving to Sunnydale, decided to open her own gallery, applying her connections and experience that allowed her to be fairly successful.
I assume she was successful in this, because there's no indication of financial hardship on Joyce's part throughout the series. Joyce is able to buy a house in Sunnydale (albeit, as Xander points out, the housing market is very favorable; presumably on account of all the mysterious deaths) and appear to live quite comfortably as a single parent, raising a teenage daughter; all before the gallery is even able to try and generate any revenue. So there's money coming in somewhere Sure, there's invariably going to be financial support coming from Hank - child support for sure, maybe spousal support too - but Joyce is able to constantly repair the house, which Buffy marvels at much later when she's faced with doing the same.
So what happened to it? If, presumably, Joyce owned any stake in the gallery, even with financial backers to get it initially off the ground, wouldn't she have possibly left that to Buffy and Dawn as part of her effort to leave them taken care of, as the Scoobies inform Buffy in the beginning of season 6?
Buffy may not have had the same level of experience that Joyce had to fill her shoes in running the gallery, but she could have picked up a fair amount of knowledge from her mom, maybe more than she would have realized to at least get her foot in the door. It didn't sound like Joyce worked with a huge staff; and if Buffy, in the capacity of inheriting ownership of the gallery, took on some role of keeping it going, at least then what employees there were would have kept their jobs. Otherwise it seems more like the gallery would have closed without Joyce.
My guess would be that prior to Sunnydale, Joyce was an art dealer or someone who worked in a high level position for a gallery in LA; and upon moving to Sunnydale, decided to open her own gallery, applying her connections and experience that allowed her to be fairly successful.
I assume she was successful in this, because there's no indication of financial hardship on Joyce's part throughout the series. Joyce is able to buy a house in Sunnydale (albeit, as Xander points out, the housing market is very favorable; presumably on account of all the mysterious deaths) and appear to live quite comfortably as a single parent, raising a teenage daughter; all before the gallery is even able to try and generate any revenue. So there's money coming in somewhere Sure, there's invariably going to be financial support coming from Hank - child support for sure, maybe spousal support too - but Joyce is able to constantly repair the house, which Buffy marvels at much later when she's faced with doing the same.
So what happened to it? If, presumably, Joyce owned any stake in the gallery, even with financial backers to get it initially off the ground, wouldn't she have possibly left that to Buffy and Dawn as part of her effort to leave them taken care of, as the Scoobies inform Buffy in the beginning of season 6?
Buffy may not have had the same level of experience that Joyce had to fill her shoes in running the gallery, but she could have picked up a fair amount of knowledge from her mom, maybe more than she would have realized to at least get her foot in the door. It didn't sound like Joyce worked with a huge staff; and if Buffy, in the capacity of inheriting ownership of the gallery, took on some role of keeping it going, at least then what employees there were would have kept their jobs. Otherwise it seems more like the gallery would have closed without Joyce.