Re: Shipping at length, now completely OT

["cab_moore" <cab_moore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In buffywantswillow@y..., danspector@w... wrote:

> Well, I'd go for pages on Anya, but anyway,

I can believe it
I suppose I like the give and take. Xander's an emotional coward, and 
Anya is afraid of her humanity.

> villains are supposed to be a device to explore the choices of the
> **human** characters--this isn't Anne Rice, as Joss made explicit in
> "School Hard" AND "Lie To Me". The implacable evilness of the 
unsouled
> gives necessary impetus to the need to oppose them, and thus the 
actions
> the characters take. Angel wanting to suck the world into hell 
moves
> the plot--Spike bitching about why Buffy doesn't wuv him kills it 
dead

Of course, vamipres are also about lack of responcability; Spike 
thinks he can love Buffy without the ability to empathically "care" 
about her.

Actually it's strange that with vampires so strong and so numerous 
that they so rarely try ending the world - infact only vamipres with 
delusions of super-evil seem to be up for it: the Master and Angelus 
(and Angelus was out to prove something).
Vampires seem to be pretty unpopular with "real" demons - hell on 
earth may not be much of a party except for vampires strong enough to 
hold their own.



> That said, my line about Xander going to LA and winning Cordy back 
was
> 90% about my love of C/X, the only 'ship I've ever seen on the show 
that

Thinking back I rather liked that too (again, the guy wasn't in 
control). Although the high point was after they broke up, with 
Xander paying off the dress.

CA