Would-be GIP + S2 Xander-thoughts
Dec. 3rd, 2009 07:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snick_backupI have the perfect new default icon! 'Tis fabulous! 'Tis not the one of Buffy you see here. I deleted my old Dru icon before I realized that LJ is broken and not letting me upload the new icon, so now I've no Dru icons at all, ohnoes! Fabulous new icon forthcoming, I hope.
In other things, me and the housemate are through "The Dark Ages" in the rewatch. More later when I have time, but right now I have two Xander-centric observations:
* The writers were pushing the Xander/Cordy tension from the very beginning of S2. There's Willow's "Get the hell out of my library!" speech, but it starts even earlier than that. Almost every ep there's X/C sniping.
* I'd forgotten just how hard they pushed Xander's Buffy-crush. Yeep. Every time she so much as looks at a guy, from pretty much "Welcome to the Hellmouth" onward, it's all snark and spite from the Xander corner. Aimed at Angel, sure, but also at Owen, Billy Ford, random person she might hypothetically met over the summer... there is no subtlety there.
In other things, me and the housemate are through "The Dark Ages" in the rewatch. More later when I have time, but right now I have two Xander-centric observations:
* The writers were pushing the Xander/Cordy tension from the very beginning of S2. There's Willow's "Get the hell out of my library!" speech, but it starts even earlier than that. Almost every ep there's X/C sniping.
* I'd forgotten just how hard they pushed Xander's Buffy-crush. Yeep. Every time she so much as looks at a guy, from pretty much "Welcome to the Hellmouth" onward, it's all snark and spite from the Xander corner. Aimed at Angel, sure, but also at Owen, Billy Ford, random person she might hypothetically met over the summer... there is no subtlety there.
