Comments | delta_mai: because Lili can't stop posting tonight...

delta_mai

because Lili can't stop posting tonight...

Jan 30, 2011 22:08

... have a personal canon ficlet!! Basically, it's how Cordelia's plot in S4 SHOULD have ended, and I think the only reason it didn't end
this way, given the constant theme in BtVS and AtS of YOU DO NOT MAKE CORDELIA CHASE A VICTIM, is because Whedon was pissed with her. Ugh. Anyway, this is what should have happened...

( She was Cordelia Chase. And she would not be made a victim. )

woman power, personal canon, feminism, otp: angel/cordy, ats, fic, queen c, cordelia owns your soul, btvs, princess cordelia rules the world

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malana February 6 2011, 02:11:19 UTC

Thank you for this. I will never, *never*, forgive Whedon for ruining Cordelia's character the way he did.

delta_mai February 6 2011, 15:50:17 UTC

Aw I'm glad you like it! And I feel the same way - her ending in S4 reverses all he's written about her before. A big theme in AtS is don't-make-Cordy-a-victim-or-you'll-be-sorry. There's that speech she gives to Lilah in Billy, the entirety of Room with a View, and just about everything else. And what does Whedon do? He turns her into a victim and doesn't let her have revenge.

It would have been so easy to end it this way - Connor would have still broken down, everything else would have happened the same. But Cordelia would have got justice.

What Whedon did was wrong on so many levels I can't even go into it. So this is now my canon and no-one will take it from me!