Yeah, I'll give you that one. Joss was able to make it seem like there might be some viable attraction for a second or two, but no one else was able to.

Back in early seasons of Buffy I liked it that HBIC!Cordy had her sights set on Angel and seemed a workable romantic rival for Buffy. But I liked it even better that she treated him like a leper once she found out about his vampirism.

I thought Cordy/Xander worked. But at least half of the dynamic in that relationship was that it was so completely unthinkable in the social setting of Sunnydale High.

I agree. I thought the writing and acting was such that the relationship surprisingly, did end up working.

I also thought she did have some chemistry (or potential) with Wesley.

I thought "Waiting in the Wings" was about the highpoint of that ship.

yeah...no. that was the time i wanted to scratch my own eyeballs out. it was more wrong than when they tried to make Cordy/Wesley happen.

I thought Cordy/Xander worked.

this is who she should have ended up with. or Doyle. if he hadn't sacrificed himself.

Okay, apparently there are a lot of people who didn't now Numfar was Joss Whedon. Heh.

(Turns out Mark didn't know after all, too!)

Numfar, do the dance of unpreparednesss!

More Mark: It occurred to me, while talking about these episodes with my wife, that the last line of the "Angel" finale -- "There's no place like ... Willow?" -- is the best knife twist in the history of television. Just that shot of Allyson Hannigan, silent and devastated, brought all the pain of the Buffy finale we had just begun to get over back again.

(The last line is actually "It's Buffy." But yes. There was much cursing of Joss Whedon for exactly that reason.)

Mark's viewing of The Gift is up. It's pretty much what you'd expect.

I am evil. I've begun looking forward to Mark's pain.