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)?

Giles is, on Buffy, my blindspot. The closest thing I have, on Angel, is probably Lorne.

Anti-blind spot--Andrew, for late season Buffy. Probably Buffy herself, a lot (She did make me say, "The Hell?" pretty regularly). On Angel, I'd have to go with Connor, I think.

Classic fandom? Willow.

Post-modern fandom? Spike.

What do you mean by those distinctions, Cindy?

I guess my blind spot would have to be Angel shaped, because I still have trouble with the idea that locking Holling etc. in with Darla & Dru was more than a little bad.

I'm probably not insightful enough to have an anti-blindspot. They all take me in to some degree.

I guess I'm with you, -t, beacuse, me, neither. I mean, they were actively eeeevil . I mean, I know, human, but still, not all that bad

I can tell, as if I couldn't already, that my blind spot is Xander shaped, because my anti-blindspots mostly have to do with actions on the part of other characters directed against him.

Definitely Wesley. Though... doesn't "blind-spots" imply that you are oblivious to the character's faults? Through most of late S3 to S5, I fully realized that Wesley was fucked-up, possibly beyond recall. Which actually made me love him more, but it's not as if I went, "Oh yeah, that bitch Justine totally needed to be chained in the closet with a bucket."

Through most of late S3 to S5, I fully realized that Wesley was fucked-up, possibly beyond recall. Which actually made me love him more

Yeah. It's one of those situations where the character became more appealing as a character while at the same time becoming the person you'd stay well away from in real life. It's sort of the way I love the character of Macbeth but never in a million years would want or expect a happy ending for the guy.

In Buffy S5 (and early S6), I kept rooting for Spike to become a better person, but with Wesley, I found myself cheering on his fall from grace.

Though... doesn't "blind-spots" imply that you are oblivious to the character's faults?

I'm taking it as not so much oblivious, but inclined to rationalize or hand-wave.

I don't think I've blindspotted -- well, maybe Lindsey. But when my efforts to keep enjoying them as I like them most, I just shrug and say "Well, Spike up through season 4." I liked the bad stuff about the characters I like the most.

Okay, my own words convict me. I would like to know though, what about Giles needs overlooking

How about the attempted murder of Spike, which, had it occurred, would have prevented the saving of the world.

My anti-blind spot would be the wee woobieman Connor. I'd go into reasons why, but I must away for work.