...turning into Xander?
Huh.
Well, I like Xander.
So do I, but I guess I was referring to the fact they kept making him the comedy buttmonkey and occasionally nearly terminally stupid.
Yeah, we're building a race of frog-people. It's a good time
Xander ,'Selfless'
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DCJensen - Aug 04, 2005 11:33:02 am PDT #2729 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
DCJensen - Aug 04, 2005 11:34:36 am PDT #2730 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
In other words, annoyance at Xander's treatment is now becoming annoyance at Rodney's treatment.
Fay - Aug 04, 2005 11:36:33 am PDT #2731 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
occasionally nearly terminally stupid
???
WTF?
Katie M - Aug 04, 2005 11:37:58 am PDT #2732 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Funny how old fannish issues just keep going, isn't it? I get the same way.
Consuela - Aug 04, 2005 11:39:34 am PDT #2733 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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They're going for comedy. Which means making Rodney look more annoying and stupid than he's been recently. I suspect it'll come back around.
JenP - Aug 04, 2005 11:40:17 am PDT #2734 of 10001
In S2, Fay, he's gotten some, er, pretty dopey, stunt-for-grins stuff foisted on him. At least, I think that's what we're talking about. I think the writers need to calm down a bit is it, mainly.
Fay - Aug 04, 2005 12:18:56 pm PDT #2735 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
We're talking about slapstick?
This isn't good.
DCJensen - Aug 04, 2005 12:26:19 pm PDT #2736 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
occasionally nearly terminally stupid
???
WTF?
I'm only going by vague feelings, here, but it seemed to me that they would have Xander be reckless or dumb in leter seasons. Things that he would not have done when he was younger.
Xander should have come away from The Zeppo with a better sense of maturity.
And he was maturing, but on occasion they seemed to have him become as he called it, the "butt monkey."
DCJensen - Aug 04, 2005 12:28:17 pm PDT #2737 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Oh Rodney. I see.
Rodney IRT slapstick? yes. at least twice in the first three S2 eps. Although the first incident with the clip could be just nervousness, the whole hands thing last week made me angry. (trying not to spoil)
shrift - Aug 04, 2005 12:40:43 pm PDT #2738 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Rache has some good fanwank about Rodney's behavior in s2: "To me, it's not humorous buffoonery so much as it is an attempt to control things that cannot be controlled, and no one recognizes it."