The second to last line of the first section sort of serves as foreshadowing for S2 and “Becoming”, or am I crazy?
That was actually my personal issues coming to the fore. Of course, Buffy was 16 at the time, and it’s no surprise that a teenage girl would prefer the cool hunky brooding (forbidden) older guy to the goofy steadfast semi-ordinary guy her own age … but I got really tired of seeing Xander overlooked, downplayed, and underestimated. Sometimes my frustration crept out.
… “didn’t she flatline in S6? Doesn’t that count?”
I chose to count it, but I was always aware that the flatline might have been the result of quickly-becoming-dark Willow’s entrance into the operating room. (Lights flickering, remember?) Whatever the canon facts, it worked for the story, so that’s the way I went.
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Date: 2012-11-07 08:47 pm (UTC)That was actually my personal issues coming to the fore. Of course, Buffy was 16 at the time, and it’s no surprise that a teenage girl would prefer the cool hunky brooding (forbidden) older guy to the goofy steadfast semi-ordinary guy her own age … but I got really tired of seeing Xander overlooked, downplayed, and underestimated. Sometimes my frustration crept out.
… “didn’t she flatline in S6? Doesn’t that count?”
I chose to count it, but I was always aware that the flatline might have been the result of quickly-becoming-dark Willow’s entrance into the operating room. (Lights flickering, remember?) Whatever the canon facts, it worked for the story, so that’s the way I went.