I think Xander's just young. Also, that Angel's being a vampire provides him a convenient out for hate without having to look at the whole Buffy thing. Crushes are obsessive, due to the one-sided level of intensity in the relationship.
Dawn: Any luck? Willow: If you define luck as the absence of success--plenty.
'Touched'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
erikaj - Jan 06, 2012 8:28:29 am PST #8149 of 10459
Always Anti-fascist!
Polter-Cow - Jan 06, 2012 8:38:21 am PST #8150 of 10459
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Huh, I just came across this exchange from Halloween:
Larry: You and Buffy, you're just friends, right?
Xander: I like to think of it less as a friendship and more as a solid foundation for future bliss.
Isn't that textbook Nice Guy attitude? Dammit, Xander, stop saying shit that makes the comments less fun. And then he talks about being manly and snaps at Buffy for saving him and making him look like a sissy man and...oh God, the comments are going to be awful.
erikaj - Jan 06, 2012 8:41:53 am PST #8151 of 10459
Always Anti-fascist!
Xander is such a quippy dude I didn't take that very seriously.But then, even a Nice Guy probably thinks he can get a better Nummy Treat than me, so I've never really faced one off the interweb.
Polter-Cow - Jan 06, 2012 8:44:31 am PST #8152 of 10459
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Xander is such a quippy dude I didn't take that very seriously.
Oh, I agree. Plus, he's talking to Larry, and he's trying to be all manly.
P.M. Marc - Jan 06, 2012 8:45:20 am PST #8153 of 10459
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Ple, am I correct in remembering you have a similar disgruntlement with Ducky in Pretty in Pink?
Yes. I hate him like burning.
Connie Neil - Jan 06, 2012 8:47:19 am PST #8154 of 10459
brillig
So extravagant male hopes and dreams about girls they like are now a syndrome? What's the female version, where she's planning the wedding and the names of the kids, after the high school quarterback smiles at her in the hallway?
§ ita § - Jan 06, 2012 8:52:38 am PST #8155 of 10459
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So extravagant male hopes and dreams about girls they like are now a syndrome?
That's not the sort of Nice Guy most people here are talking about.
P.M. Marc - Jan 06, 2012 9:01:26 am PST #8156 of 10459
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
(For the record, I hate that aspect of Some Kind of Wonderful EVERY BIT AS MUCH as I hate it in Pretty in Pink.)
le nubian - Jan 06, 2012 9:06:37 am PST #8157 of 10459
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I didn't like any of the male characters is "Pretty in Pink." None of them. I so wanted Molly Ringwald's character to reject them all. I could not stand them.
"Some Kind of Wonderful" I liked better, but it was much thinner on plot and realism than the previous movies. The ending of course was unrealistic.
The thing with Xander is that we aren't really rooting for him like we are supposed to for the lead character of SKOW. So I think it is okay to like him some times and not others (especially Season 6).
Sophia Brooks - Jan 06, 2012 9:08:40 am PST #8158 of 10459
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My favorite character in Pretty in Pink was Annie Potts. And I sort of assumed Ducky was gay, maybe even before I knew what gay was.