XANDER FEVER
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, December 12, 2005 06:52
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Quote:
Originally posted by Haidon:
"That's ok, I didn't want to go. I'll just go home, lie down, and listen to country music... The music of pain."
Followed up by the phone-hanging-up scene - genius ;)
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Thanks! That's my first e-high five. And it's intercontinental too. Isn't it? You're in England, right?
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I have such a torrid little love/hate thing going for Xander, always have. I dig that he's mulit-faceted, he's not just humor but has some dark scary places, too. But, as someone else said, it'd be nice if some of his misdeeds had come back to him, maybe so he could have acknowledged them as such. The lie to Buffy, the goding of Faith, these things would have been understandable transgresions if they'd ever been dealt with, but the problem I see with Xander is the fact that he gets away with it, he's alowed to keep his moral superiority even after.
The thing that bothers me, though, is his hypocrisy. He hates Angel for being a thing of evil (and that can be argued in Xander's favor, agreed) he hates Spike for the same (and ditto) but. BUT...he gets all the way to the alter with Anya, an ex demon who not only fails to show remorse for her past deeds, but often recalls them fondly. Uh. Ok. What? This could have been an interesting opportunity to grow the character a bit, make him see what Buffy had going on with her vamps, but a few snide comments aside, no one ever really pushes it, makes him confront it. Again, he gets away easy.
I love the guy, I do, and that's what makes his bouts of jerkiness even worse, more honest, but worse. I just think his role as comic releif prevented some of the growth the other's had. Pity, too.
"I'll be in my bunk."
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Okay, I'm being lazy today because I didn't read this whole thread, but can I just say that I use that I say butt monkey on a daily basis, lol.
There are so many great Xanderisms, but the one that is standing out in my mind is from Prophecy Girl after Buffy rejects him, "I'm gonna go home, lay down and listen to country music, the music of pain"
and the next time you see him, he's sprawled out across his bed, staring off into space, listening to Patsy Kline. Priceless 
"We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land'."
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