Throwback Thursday: Buffy Lives! Looking back at BTVS move from WB to UPN

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-Buffy The Vampire Slayer aired for 5 seasons on TheWB before moving over to UPN where it would air its final 2 seasons. This wasn't your usual 'network cancels show, new network takes pity and picks up canceled show'. With it being TBT lets look back at the high profile move between networks

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[yurasama_love]

It never called Xander out because Xander was Joss Whedon's self insert character

[sweet_ali]

Xander feeling like the powerless and threatened human he was is what set him off. He was more disgusting about Buffy and Spike and was almost always pretty terrible to Anya.

[wonky]

Yeah, I hate Xander so much and his never getting called out on his bullshit really dates the show. He's the epitome of annoying guy who can't stand being less than the people around him but especially less than the women around him so he's a cruel, vindictive, selfish jerk. Annoying little self-insert weasel.

[insomniachobs]

What I was always pissed about - and am in hindsight more pissed about because I suspect it was Joss buffering for his self-insert - was the total lack of consequences Xander faced for the season 2 finale. It was bad enough that he sabotaged the wishes of the wider group (and Jenny Calendar's last wish), but then he basically murders Angel using Buffy as his proxy. Then when Buffy is naturally traumatised and struggling, he is an absolute dick to her about the whole thing with precisely no fucks to give about his role in causing her that pain.

Of all the things Xander is just never called out for by the show, that one just seems the most glaring from a story point of view and it really only starts to make sense when you realise just how much the show sympathised with his viewpoint