I thought you were being literal

I was. In a really metaphoric way.

Or something.

(I saw it before you deleted and was highly amused.)

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I thought you were being literal, because Xander himself has the biggest blindspot.

GAH! Which then hits me all over again that his eye loss isn't just symbolic of him being the "one who sees," but of his own blindspot toward himself. Talk about poetic justice....

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I saw it before you deleted and was highly amused.

See, Xander as the answer to that question is just FUNNY, damn it!

So I'll repeat the deleted thumbs up, just remember to avoid the occular area with the aforementioned digits.

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Women are Cthonian

Is this a fancied up way of saying women are closer to the earth?

I remember the term "queer" being used, but it's possible that both were. No cites I can recall, though I probably followed a link from here.

Heh. I've probably brought it up in the past. I have a half-memory of mentioning this before, and someone finding the piece I was talking about, and linking to it. I've googled for it, but I don't remember enough of it to use unique or meaningful search terms. I'm coming up with a lot of stuff, just not the stuff I meant.

Of course, as my main objection is of the BMECT! variety, potkettleblack.

BMECT? What's that, Plei?

So, playing the role of Perkins, which Buffyverse chacter do fans have the biggest blindspot for? Or, which character do you, dear Reader, have a blindspot for?

Classic fandom? Willow.

Post-modern fandom? Spike.

Me? Buffy, with a small side-order of Xander.

I think my blindspots are more akin to I-don't-care spots, but I suppose that by definition, blind-spots are something we don't know we have. That is, I don't think I don't see their nasty bits. I think I appreciate their nasty bits, in the way, I think, that Jessica might have meant when she was discussing Willow.

There's another kind of real blindspot, or at least it seems, where people don't see the bad their favorite characters do, or wank it away harder than the average blind-spotter. I think that's the sort of thing Plei's mentioning with a fraction of the Spike fen.

See, Xander as the answer to that question is just FUNNY, damn it!

So I'll repeat the deleted thumbs up, just remember to avoid the occular area with the aforementioned digits.

Oof.

Honestly, I think my biggest blindspot is Connor sized, because Connor is just a WEE MISUNDERSTOOD WOOBIEMAN!

You don't think Wes is your blindspot?

You know what I realized or remembered over the last couple of weeks when we were watching season 2? I didn't like Jenny Calendar. Jenny's my anti-blindspot, far more than Willow.

Don't get me wrong, Jenny's murder was shocking, and I feel so sorry for Giles, and for the gang, too. I would have liked to see their story continue. My heart breaks when Dru hypnotizes him in Becoming, and makes him think he's talking to and kissing Jenny, when he's really spilling the beans to Dru. But even when I put aside that Jenny was a mole for team vengeance, and endangered the Scoobies and the world (because we don't know that until so soon before she dies), I think she was nasty to Giles. Go Angelus with the neck snap. Do it again.

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Connor is just a WEE MISUNDERSTOOD WOOBIEMAN!

Plei is me.

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My blind spot has a definite Giles-ish shape to it.

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what is there about Giles that needs to be blindspot, hmmm??

Er, that is to say, me too.

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Heh. I was going to mention Giles, except that I don't think there's anything that needs to be blindspotted where Giles is concerned.

Okay, my own words convict me. I would like to know though, what about Giles needs overlooking [in the way we have to overlook Willow's self-centeredness; Xander's self-righteousness; or Buffy's [whatever it is, I know she's my blindspot)]?

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I think (and this is before S6, where the meta just overwhelms the character) that most of Giles' faults are of either the over-protectiveness or the thinking-he-knows-what's-best-being-the-Watcher-and-all variety, so...hmm...failing to trust the kids, at times, maybe?

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cereal--Raq asked:

So, playing the role of Perkins, which Buffyverse chacter do fans have the biggest blindspot for? Or, which character do you, dear Reader, have a blindspot for?

I still want to hear more answers on this, but I'm also wondering, which character is everyone's anti-blindspot. That is, which one do you see (and you don't have to hate the character, you can even love the character) and think, "Oh sorry, but you don't fool me?" I guess my anti-blindspot characters are Willow and Jenny, and I've gone on about why enough, already.

Also, if you have an anti-blindspot character, do you maybe see something in that character that maps to someone you know in real life (or even yourself)?

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