Buffy Season Two Episode Ten
"Wiggy?" (Not all slayers are conversant with this phrase.)
"My black goddess. My right, wicked plum." (Term of endearment, strange couple.)
"I'd rather be worm food than look at your pathetic face." (Term of endearment, normal couple.)
"You feel that? How the anger gives you fire?" (Essential vampire-slaying attitude that was left out of handbook.)
"Still, he's cute." (Bloodsucker has redeeming quality.)
Setting: School has a sewing room, useful for impromptu romantic encounters.
Cordelia watch, with SPOILER: Episode holds its tone, toys with camp without capitulating to it, allowing putatively anti-emotional characters (Kendra, Oz) to display emotions without having to acknowledge that they are doing so. I probably would have preferred it slightly less referential and funny, but that's me. I was mighty disappointed that the Xander-Cordy coupling was done as generic screwball parody passion; I wanted something sweeter. But on reflection I think this will work well in the long run: Xander can slowly over numerous episodes show vulnerability and drop his need to always have an edge on Cordy, while she can dole out her sweetness and warmth in segments rather than all at once; more accurately, the hardness and the antagonism can get temporarily dropped in numerous moments of passion, without being entirely abandoned until the characters are ready.
"My black goddess. My right, wicked plum." (Term of endearment, strange couple.)
"I'd rather be worm food than look at your pathetic face." (Term of endearment, normal couple.)
"You feel that? How the anger gives you fire?" (Essential vampire-slaying attitude that was left out of handbook.)
"Still, he's cute." (Bloodsucker has redeeming quality.)
Setting: School has a sewing room, useful for impromptu romantic encounters.
Cordelia watch, with SPOILER: Episode holds its tone, toys with camp without capitulating to it, allowing putatively anti-emotional characters (Kendra, Oz) to display emotions without having to acknowledge that they are doing so. I probably would have preferred it slightly less referential and funny, but that's me. I was mighty disappointed that the Xander-Cordy coupling was done as generic screwball parody passion; I wanted something sweeter. But on reflection I think this will work well in the long run: Xander can slowly over numerous episodes show vulnerability and drop his need to always have an edge on Cordy, while she can dole out her sweetness and warmth in segments rather than all at once; more accurately, the hardness and the antagonism can get temporarily dropped in numerous moments of passion, without being entirely abandoned until the characters are ready.