I don't think Xander was badly written; he was just a plain old asshole. I think you summed him up nicely. He was never a particularly loyal friend or a listener or insightful. He gave an inspirational speech here and there, but most of the time it didn't work. How can he be the one who sees when S1-S6 they made it a recurring joke as to obtuse he was? Unless he was faking it, in which case he was an even bigger asshole.
I think the First Evil worked very well in concept but no one tapped anyone on the shoulder and said they didn't have the money to clone SMG to play the First and Buffy.
Xander was just the guy to pop up and lecture her on what a terrible friend or girlfriend she was in Dead Man's Party, Revelations, Into The Woods etc
Kicker of it all is, it's gotten increasingly harder to believe we weren't supposed to believe he was right about all it.
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Date: 2013-06-02 05:00 pm (UTC)I don't think Xander was badly written; he was just a plain old asshole. I think you summed him up nicely. He was never a particularly loyal friend or a listener or insightful. He gave an inspirational speech here and there, but most of the time it didn't work. How can he be the one who sees when S1-S6 they made it a recurring joke as to obtuse he was? Unless he was faking it, in which case he was an even bigger asshole.
I think the First Evil worked very well in concept but no one tapped anyone on the shoulder and said they didn't have the money to clone SMG to play the First and Buffy.
Xander was just the guy to pop up and lecture her on what a terrible friend or girlfriend she was in Dead Man's Party, Revelations, Into The Woods etc
Kicker of it all is, it's gotten increasingly harder to believe we weren't supposed to believe he was right about all it.