from the annals of watching Buffy on Hulu
Sep. 13th, 2009 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotesse... which is obviously the only way to spend Sunday afternoon. The stupid St. Augustine readings for my Rhet&Comp class go much quicker with quippy Josslanguage in the background.
The current ep on the docket is "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," which I always enjoy, coming as I do from dual positions of Cordy love and Xander scorn. She's so sweet! He's such a douche! I really works for me.
And on that note, something I only noticed on this rewatch - there's no reason that Amy's lovespell couldn't have worked fine. Her language during the casting never specifies Cordelia as the object, only "Xander's beloved." And maybe it isn't just that Cor already loved the jerk - maybe it's that as usual, Xander Harris doesn't know what the hell he wants.
This is my (ongoing) problem with Xander: he wants everyone and no one. He wants Buffy, but then he also wants Cordelia, but he still wants Buffy, and then there's Willow. Not content with the lover he has, he's got to keep lanes open to every other possible object of love - even when he's with Cordy, the popular beautiful everything-he-ever-wanted Cordy, he still resents Angel for being with Buffy.
He's perpetually unfaithful. He ditches poor ice-cream-on-her-nose Willow as soon as Buffy's back in town, and then he macks on Will once he's dating Cordelia, and then he abandons Anya in a fit of - of I don't even know what.
He's not a complete dick, because he always feels bad, and gets that he's a fool, and is sorry. But he still keeps on screwing around, trying to possess all women and through that losing the lovers he's got.
It's one of the reasons why Xanderslash makes such total sense. He's so bad at dealing with girlfriends that he's either a fool or he's queer. He's more sympathetic if he's queer. Personally, I'm so hacked off with him on behalf of Will and Cordy and Anya that I don't care. but it does make sense.
"Xander's beloved" could mean any woman, any woman at all. Because he definitely can "love two people at once," more fool he.
The current ep on the docket is "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," which I always enjoy, coming as I do from dual positions of Cordy love and Xander scorn. She's so sweet! He's such a douche! I really works for me.
And on that note, something I only noticed on this rewatch - there's no reason that Amy's lovespell couldn't have worked fine. Her language during the casting never specifies Cordelia as the object, only "Xander's beloved." And maybe it isn't just that Cor already loved the jerk - maybe it's that as usual, Xander Harris doesn't know what the hell he wants.
This is my (ongoing) problem with Xander: he wants everyone and no one. He wants Buffy, but then he also wants Cordelia, but he still wants Buffy, and then there's Willow. Not content with the lover he has, he's got to keep lanes open to every other possible object of love - even when he's with Cordy, the popular beautiful everything-he-ever-wanted Cordy, he still resents Angel for being with Buffy.
He's perpetually unfaithful. He ditches poor ice-cream-on-her-nose Willow as soon as Buffy's back in town, and then he macks on Will once he's dating Cordelia, and then he abandons Anya in a fit of - of I don't even know what.
He's not a complete dick, because he always feels bad, and gets that he's a fool, and is sorry. But he still keeps on screwing around, trying to possess all women and through that losing the lovers he's got.
It's one of the reasons why Xanderslash makes such total sense. He's so bad at dealing with girlfriends that he's either a fool or he's queer. He's more sympathetic if he's queer. Personally, I'm so hacked off with him on behalf of Will and Cordy and Anya that I don't care. but it does make sense.
"Xander's beloved" could mean any woman, any woman at all. Because he definitely can "love two people at once," more fool he.