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[infinitewhale]

Sometimes I feel like defending Xander. This annoys me. It's not like I can stand the character or anything, but the hate... It's so pervasive that it's a little hard to take seriously when people reach so hard to make excuses for other characters

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[frelling_tralk]

I don't think a lot of them even know that

I don't know, I've seen quite a few complaints on Willow being Joss's pet favourite and being unfairly protected by the writers in season 6, and of course there's the perception (rightly or wrongly) of Xander being based on Joss. I think that attitude is a factor when it comes to the ~core scoobies~ being seen as being unfairly valued by the writers over their significant others, Anya and Cordelia especially seemed to always have their pov's favoured by fandom over Xander partly because of that IMO, fans seemed to get defensive on their behalf when they perceived the show as treating them dismissively

And oh absolutely, I like Cordelia fine, but the fandom behind her these days is just way too much. She was a bully, and she acted very entitled and superior when she appeared on Buffy, that's just fact. She was almost always funny with it too of course and had some great lines, and the character certainly developed a lot on Angel, but come on at how her fans now try and spin her into being the hero and a better person than the core scoobies when she appeared on Bts. I love how they take "tact is just not saying true stuff" as her mission statement and act like that somehow makes her better, even though the show was always very clear about high school Cordelia just not caring enough about whether her words would hurt others

[infinitewhale]

I've seen quite a few complaints on Willow being Joss's pet favourite and being unfairly protected by the writers in season 6

Oh, I've seen that, but not really in the new fandom. Most of the complaints I've seen there are about S6. I can agree with the notion that Willow seemed to benefit from a lot of double standards, but so did Faith and Anya.

I tend to think it stems from the fact that she lived whereas most of their faves died and They Deserved Better.

I love how they take "tact is just not saying true stuff" as her mission statement and act like that somehow makes her better, even though the show was always very clear about high school Cordelia just not caring enough about whether her words would hurt others

Especially when the thing she said that about wasn't even true. The whole point of that comment was to show how full of herself she was. I saw a comment once that expressed outrage that Buffy said Glory reminded her of Cordy? Guess what, she *does* remind you of Cordy personality-wise.