I badly wanted the First to be Jesse for Xander in CwDP, in retrospect. Back to the beginning, and all.
Oh, heck yeah.
There was some good fic about that, IIRC. I've pretty well added it to my Personal Canon.
'Bring On The Night'
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I badly wanted the First to be Jesse for Xander in CwDP, in retrospect. Back to the beginning, and all.
Oh, heck yeah.
There was some good fic about that, IIRC. I've pretty well added it to my Personal Canon.
Does anyone know if there was a reason for NB not being available for the episode? Because I think that a confrontation with FE!Jesse would have been wonderful.
Elena, I'm inclined to think that they decided they only had time for five storylines, and poor Xander got the shaft. (Again.)
Well, that just sucks. Because it would have been great.
Yeah, Nick said at a con I was at that he got the script and read it and that's when he found out he wasn't in the episode.
That seems pretty harsh.
(edit) Especially when he might have been better served in CwCP than in, say, First Date... Or, really, almost every season 7 ep.
Plus Jesse is maybe the biggest loose plot thread ever. And one mention after the first episode would have fixed that.
I always put a lot of Xander's fanatical vampire hatred down to Jesse.
Absolutely in agreement with you there, helentm.
Though (as I read the script long before I saw the episode) I always thought that Xander had staked Jesse on his own, rather than almost accidently. It would have made his 'Angel must die' stance a little stronger, and made his relationship with Spike all the odder.
That line - 'I don't like vampires. I'm going to take a stand and say they're not good.'
Yep. It's a pretty good summation of his mission.