Oh, sure it is. But it's the only way I can deal with (what I see as) a glaring flaw in what is otherwise almost a perfectly done piece. So I'ma stay over here in Egypt where I'm happy.
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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Xander Summoned Sweet is my personal "demon eggs? Come on!" I feel I'm owed one. I mean, I swallowed Summers blood. (Not literally.)
Honestly, Xander would have copped to it as soon as he heard that people were combusting. I know what the show told us, I just can't believe it.
Even if you buy that it was Xander and that he should have copped to it, I have a hard time with him pestering Giles about how to stop it. He should not have been in that scene at all.
I'm going to have to assume he failed to make the connection until he saw the locket.
I'm going to have to assume he failed to make the connection until he saw the locket.
I believe he did do it and knew what he was trying to do. Just not what the consequences were. I find it weak though that he didn't think there would be any, considering the life he's led since the 10th grade.
I find it weak though that he didn't think there would be any, considering the life he's led since the 10th grade.
It's especially weak after Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, how he talks about magic to Wil in Lover's Walk and speaking latin in front of the books. He damn well knows better.
And in BBB he goes to Giles as soon as he twigs that something odd is happening.
He damn well knows better.
Sure, but it played into that "magic has consequences" comment of Spike's. Which came back and pretty much bit everyone in the ass one way or another.
And in BBB he goes to Giles as soon as he twigs that something odd is happening.
And got his head taken off. Not that I like it any better than y'all. But he wasn't so much bugging Giles about stopping it as finding out if the incidents were connected. It is Sunnydale, after all - sometimes a neck erruption is just a neck erruption, sometimes its PCP.
What's always bothered me about it was that during the spell, people were being extra honest, and singing things they wouldn't normally say, and Xander said nothing. Then the spell is over, and poof, he suddenly tells the truth?