I don’t think he knew that whatever he did lead to all of those incidents at the time he was talking to Giles.

So what did Xander think he was doing that he thought would be fun and have a happy ending? I don't buy it.

I don’t think he knew that whatever he did lead to all of those incidents at the time he was talking to Giles.

I'll have to rewatch but I believe Xander and Anya were complaining to Giles about putting a stop to the singing and dancing and that's when Giles told them the combustionews. We know that Xander was well aware of what he did and that it would bring the fun in, so why does he act terribly confused about the source of the fun? We're supposed to believe that Xander disingenuously seeked out Giles to complain about a phenomenon that he knowingly caused. It's not just out of character, it plays like a continuity mistake albeit in the same episode.

And Sunnydale has (had) no shortage of demony things, so he could have thought something else was causing the combustible persons.

But eventually he'd have found out about the link. Where's the remorse?

But eventually he'd have found out about the link. Where's the remorse?

What I would have wanted to see is not so much the remorse but the nervousness, the vaguely guilty feeling when it started looking like it might be related, maybe even some healthy denial or fear of discovery. Some teensy-tiny sign that there was something on his mind, even, especially as the combustions became known and Buffy started to seem to go off the deep-end. Some kind of groundwork, even if it's the kind you only recognize in hindsight. Without it, it just rings so false that I can't make it process through my mind.

So, we can agree that either Xander's a closet scociopah or the writers just didn't consider that avenue?

ROFL:

TVGO: Do you think Buffy bungled the long-simmering Xander/Willow romance by pretending Willow didn't really love him all those years? They had her in love with Oz, then made her Tara's girlfriend.

Brendon: That's a question for the writers. I don't want to p--- anybody off. [Laughs] Too bad they never brought it up again after Season 3. I would love to have made out with Tara and Willow.

TVGO: Wait a sec. You're not disappointed you lost out on Willow. You just want the straight guy's fantasy of romancing two lesbians?!

Brendon: Yeah, gimme a shot! Let's have a little threesome.

I always thought it was interesting that for someone who used to have a crush on Buffy, the erotic porno leadup part of his dream in "Restless" concerned every woman but.

I always thought it was interesting that for someone who used to have a crush on Buffy, the erotic porno leadup part of his dream in "Restless" concerned every woman but.

Including Buffy's mom. Meanwhile Buffy calls him big brother. There's some icky stuff going on there, isn't there. Heh.

I always thought it was interesting that for someone who used to have a crush on Buffy, the erotic porno leadup part of his dream in "Restless" concerned every woman but.

Including Buffy's mom. Meanwhile Buffy calls him big brother. There's some icky stuff going on there, isn't there. Heh.

OTOH, I think that part of the dream means he has given up hoping for Buffy. He feels that he has been relegated to a brother warm-fuzzy companion, and in the dream it is manifested in his reaction to her calling him brother. It's his unconscious telling his conscious that is how she sees him.

I agree, Dan. Because he repeats it 'Brother... Right', which seemed to me to be acceptance.