Dear People who manage Angel (as an interest) on Facebook
If you're going to ask fans who their favorite character is, please use a promo pic that includes Cordelia fucking Chase. Using a s5 promo (probably because Spike was on it) pic is likely to cause some long time fans to regress and leave nasty, mean spirited comments instead of a straight-forward answer
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Even compared to Bangel or Spuffy? (FYI: one thing I've learned is that if Spike is mentioned in any conversation even as a sidenote it quickly becomes ALL ABOUT HIM.)
So there's less to explore, and because she was a Mean Girl
And I admit that watching the show for the first time last year she was the character I liked the least in the early seasons because in school I'd been the Willow/Marcie/Jonathan character at the receiving end of that kind of meanness from the time I walked into kindergarten onward. So I didn't have a lot of sympathy when she bemoaned the fact in S2 that people didn't see below her surface.
S3 completely changed that - Xander cheating on her with Willow and being IMPALED, for god's sake (was that necessary? To punish her for Xander's fuck-up? 'cause, he's the nerd-boy stand-in for Joss and his idea of "a man who is turned on by strong women" ?)
At that point I really wanted them to do more with her because Charisma's performance in the immediate aftermath was excellent. trying to go backwards with her character at that point was actually offensive.
I watched an episode or two of AtS in S1 and thought that I could really enjoy watching Cordy at that point and who she was becoming. Then I made the mistake (or not) of reading about the series and what happens to her - and the fate of every other female character on the series and I just can't go through that.
if Buffy needs a ride home, the only thing out of her mouth is "of course".
Helpless is one of my favorite episodes (I love Buffy but god help me I love angst); and that moment is one I've watched over and over. I love Cordy SO much in that moment. Or when she tells Buffy to "spank her inner moppet" in WSWB - they get each other on a level the show acknowledges too infrequently. Or in Ted after Buffy thinks she's killed a man and Giles says she shouldn't go on patrol Cordy's response is "What can we do?"
I think I'm getting carried away now, too.
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