Jasmine ,'Power Play'
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If Xander is Joss's avatar, and B/X is the OTP, wouldn't that make Xander a Mary Sue?
Essentially, yes.
I think this is pretty much why it never happened, although I am not hip with the slashy fic lingo or canon.
ETA: (Meaning canon as in the collected fic genre, not as in stuff that appeared on the show and is therefore "true")
Buffy sent Angel to hell again.
Stupid allergies. Every. single. time.
A well-handled Xander Sue.
Stupid allergies. Every. single. time.
Right on. I teared up, and I'm at work staring at a computer screen! Maybe I'll go home and pop B2 into the dvd player.
If Xander is Joss's avatar, and B/X is the OTP, wouldn't that make Xander a Mary Sue?
I think this is pretty much why it never happened, although I am not hip with the slashy fic lingo or canon.
Translation: If Xander is Joss's avatar, and Buffy and Xander are the One True Destined Forever Pairing, wouldn't that make Xander a creation defined by masturbatory authorial self-insertion?
"Incredibly poignient Sarah McLaughlin song" listed in the script.
I'm with Steph, except they're *manly* allergies....
:/
Translation: If Xander is Joss's avatar, and Buffy and Xander are the One True Destined Forever Pairing, wouldn't that make Xander a creation defined by masturbatory authorial self-insertion?
Yup.
-crickets-
So, uh, how about that Joss poking his own eye out with his cross-series crush object near the end of S7?
So, uh, how about that Joss poking his own eye out with his cross-series crush object near the end of S7?
Heh. It all makes a delightfully twisted kind of sense.
I'm not the only one who keeps watching the reruns and still waiting for Buffy to get there in time am I? See, if Joss were really a superdupergenious, he would have shot alternate endings for every show, that all made sense and then replayed them years after the show concluded. Or that's just my sick little head going into no new Buffy withdrawl.
But the new video game is looking promising at least.
And with the unfinished business, do you think there was supposed to be more Kendra, but reaction to her was weak and the nixed her? I've always wondered that.
So, uh, how about that Joss poking his own eye out with his cross-series crush object near the end of S7?
Ah, see you're missing the idea that in syllogism logic, both the first and second points need to be true in order for the third to be true. Since B/X is not the OTP, Xander is not necessarily a Mary Sue.