Mmmm. Manly suffering.
All those women who don't like to see Wesley suffer, step up.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
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Mmmm. Manly suffering.
All those women who don't like to see Wesley suffer, step up.
Does Spike/JM have the woobie factor as well?
NO.
(Well, apparently yes. But not for me.)
All those women who don't like to see Wesley suffer, step up.
*raises hand* I mean, it used to be fun, we could've stopped any time we wanted, and then it just got out of hand!
You gotta comfort them, yo.
Unless you're dealing with a stoneface like Jack¹, or Jack², or Jack³.
Then it's the stoic that makes me wibble.
¹ O'Neill
² Bauer
³ Bristow.
You gotta comfort them, yo.
Yeah, I'll just skip it. Gimme Michael Samuelle standing by Nikita's hospital bed anyday.
Tim Bayliss. Come on, you knew I'd say it.It disturbs me, the pleasure I find in his pain.
I'd like to be Michael's woobie.
But Ryan needs to be mine.
Woobieness is not commutative.
Does Spike/JM have the woobie factor as well?
The woobification of Spike (very largely present among the Spike-holic contingent) was *finally* what made me get turned off the character. It embraced all the negative aspects of the phenomenon--the feverish devotion to the character and inability to acknowledge his/her very real flaws, and the demonization of anyone who is mean to their woobie (i.e. "Buffy is such a bitch for being nasty to my poor Spikey!"). Spike is the character I think about first when people talk about 'The Woobie', actually, which may have a lot to do with my dislike of the term. I had a total flashback to the rabid Spike-holic contingent when I first encountered the more militant Danielites in SG-fandom (and turned my tail and ran like hell to the opposite direction.)
My god, if you woobify Spike, you lose the attractive bits. You can't do that to his sort of anti-hero (in theory Lex could still be attractive good -- I mean, he's not precisely bad).
loved I not The Jack-and-Daniel Show more.
Rewatching "Divide & Conquer," I thought precisely of Emily's assertion after "Yup, I think these are the Jack O'Neill moments that I'll probably miss the most." "What?" "What?"
Uck. Woobification of Spike creeps me right the fuck out. I tend to think that no character on Buffy was really woobifiable, with my limited knowledge of the term.