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*Likes and Dislikes of the Buffy-verse*
Who is your favorite character?	Buffy
Who is your least favorite character?	Out of the regulars? Angel
Who would you kill off if given the chance?	Kennedy. Slowly and painfully
Who should have had more of an active role in the Series?	Dawn
What is your favorite season of BtVS?	Seasons 3, 5, 6
What is your favorite episode?	OMWF, Restless, FFL in that order
What is your favorite quote?	Why does a man do what he mustn't? For her. To be hers. To be the kind of man who would nev— to be a kind of man
Which season did you dislike?	Season 1 (I didn't dislike it though)
What would you have changed in that season?	Umm just had it be a bit less MOTW, and make it 22 episodes I suppose
What episode did you dislike?	As You Were
What would you have changed in that episode?	Fixed the characterisation, ended the idealisation of Riley
What is your favorite Canon pairing?	Buffy/Spike
What is your least favorite Canon pairing?	Willow/Kennedy
What is your favorite Unconventional Pairing?	Giles/Anya
What is your least favorite Unconventional Pairing?	Xander/Spike
What did you think was the most obnoxious CPD in the Series? (CPD=convienient plot device)	Demon eggs in As You Were
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I think the problem was they decided to go in the opposite direction,

My issue with Kennedy was that they *didn't* really go in the other direction. Beneath the brash and pushy exterior, she was still head of the Go Willow! squad which really isn't something Willow needed, IMO. She needed someone to tell her what for instead of playing the backpatter all the time.

Also? Kite string. No.

Joss talks about deliberately going for Kennedy as the opposite of Tara, and I think she very much was in terms of arrogant nasty personality, but you're right that it seems all of Willow's lovers must worship her. It's like the writers find it impossible to imagine that she might actually have to be the one chasing someone. Oz and Tara were both all over her from the first, "No you are special. Here, take this priceless articifact of my family's"

Well she never got anywhere with Xander mind you, but that was the only exception from what I remember.

"No you are special. Here, take this priceless articifact of my family's"

:D

Yeah, that's the brunt of it. I seriously think Joss had some objectivity issues when it came to Willow.

Hee, when I was responding to you, I was thinking Mary Sue. But I'm not sure that's quite accurate, I think it's partly that, and a lot of Aly being Joss's pet. And the writers finding it hard to be objective about anyone not falling for her cuteness. She even manages to wriggle out of singing in the musical, when all the other terrified actors have to just suck it up and deal. (Or, in the case of Michelle, offer to dance instead). Ally didn't really have to do any extra work for that episode, yet Joss still gushes in the commentary about how she had the harder role in having to respond to Amber's singing.

But anyway *g*