Buffy Thoughts (Public Post)

[author_by_night]

The sun and  the clouds are currently at war.

Sun: Whee! I'm out!

Clouds: Nope.

Sun: Bitch?

Clouds: Yeaah... I thought so.

And it's all very 2000s.  :P Meanwhile, my willingness to leave the house depends on the  sun staying out, although I actually have to leave to do some  shopping, so I don't have much choice. But I'd rather not leave in the rain,

Comments

[frelling_tralk]

Maybe even right down to Xander not even being all that believably "uncool", since in all honesty, I fail to see how Xander's this huge nerd when he really acts like half the guys I knew in high school.

I never quite got that either, it seemed like they started making the effort to write him as more of a geek once Jonathan, Andrew, and Warren showed up, so then you suddenly got him understanding their references and being embarrassed at how much he could relate to Andrew, but back in seasons 1-3 they never gave him any lines I don’t think to indicate that he was heavily into comic books? He would mostly just make very widely known pop culture references like ‘spider sense’ in the general way that Buffy would, but there was a marked difference in how the trio were portrayed in comparison during season 6, and really it was only as he got older that the show seemed to decide that Xander was also someone with really geeky interests

Perhaps they didn’t want to make high school Xander too similar to characters like Andrew and Jonathan, because he was still sort of meant to be the male lead back then, and they wanted to make him plausibly hunky and cool enough to be attractive to Cordelia/a possible Buffy love Interest? There was far more of a stigma in a way with how nerdy characters were portrayed on tv back when Buffy was first airing, whereas by the time of seasons 6 and 7 the writers seemed to be having more fun with embracing it, and knowing that their audience would be picking up on many of Andrew’s references and laughing with the characters, not at them?