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i woke up with a tummy full of snot and was dizzy in the shower. so i'm home on the couch with Buffy; the last set of eps is in syndication on FX. the last season has some great lines, and i love Wood, but i don't really care for the doom-mongering or those whiny teenage girls.
i never liked Dawn.
i am not a Xander fan either. it's not that they're the only non-superheroes on the show; i loved Willow before she got into witchcraft, and i loved Oz before he was a werewolf. i appreciated Cordelia's presence as a foil. i never liked Angel either, but that's a whole other story. i suppose that my feelings about Xander stem from the fact that Willow was my touchstone (at least as the brilliant but socially inept hs student) and he just had to be a stupid man, and continued to be a stupid man. i guess that means he's really well written :)
yesterday morning on the way to work C and i had a long discussion about Xander's complicity in Anya's actions as a vengance demon. we agree that he caused her to turn with the wedding thing. C believes that she had the choice to just not do the vengance thing, and i think that she's a demon and it's as much in her nature as bloodsucking for a vampire. my feel is that once the step was taken she was in a situation that couldn't be escaped without external help, and faulting her for acting on her nature is like feeding a dog vegetarian food (that's another rant entirely). so is Xander ultimately responsible for the deaths and torture that resulted from her return to demonhood? i say hell yes. C thinks that there's a point where it's not his fault anymore, but i don't understand how it starts out being his fault and then suddenly he's absolved of further guilt. no catalyst, no demon, no deaths.
i never liked Dawn.
i am not a Xander fan either. it's not that they're the only non-superheroes on the show; i loved Willow before she got into witchcraft, and i loved Oz before he was a werewolf. i appreciated Cordelia's presence as a foil. i never liked Angel either, but that's a whole other story. i suppose that my feelings about Xander stem from the fact that Willow was my touchstone (at least as the brilliant but socially inept hs student) and he just had to be a stupid man, and continued to be a stupid man. i guess that means he's really well written :)
yesterday morning on the way to work C and i had a long discussion about Xander's complicity in Anya's actions as a vengance demon. we agree that he caused her to turn with the wedding thing. C believes that she had the choice to just not do the vengance thing, and i think that she's a demon and it's as much in her nature as bloodsucking for a vampire. my feel is that once the step was taken she was in a situation that couldn't be escaped without external help, and faulting her for acting on her nature is like feeding a dog vegetarian food (that's another rant entirely). so is Xander ultimately responsible for the deaths and torture that resulted from her return to demonhood? i say hell yes. C thinks that there's a point where it's not his fault anymore, but i don't understand how it starts out being his fault and then suddenly he's absolved of further guilt. no catalyst, no demon, no deaths.
