Yeah with Tara and Willow I hated how they made it all about Willow being in ~rehab~ and Tara waiting until she was clean from magic to get back with her. They broke up because Tara was upset at Willow violating her mind, and that lack of respect was never properly addressed when they got back together
And I definitely agree with that, I think the writers being 'uncool' themselves when they were at school made them very biased towards a group of outsiders like the scoobies, and they often fell into the trap of making Cordelia too one-dimensional in response. Especially in season 3 where they seemed to lose any interest in giving her character development or having her do anything but showing up for one or two scenes to snark at Xander or flirt with Wesley. And yeah looking back now the insults between Xander and Cordelia were very often instigated by Xander when she's just hanging out with her friends and talking to them. For example in Reptile Boy she's talking to her friend about college guys and Xander butts in to insult her so she insults him right back, and then it's always Xander's hurt face that they focus on urgh, never mind that he was the one who instigated the insults in the first place most of the time. But they saw it as Cordelia being the popular mean girl and Xander the geeky underdog, so they always framed those scenes from Xander's POV
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Date: 2013-06-28 10:56 am (UTC)And I definitely agree with that, I think the writers being 'uncool' themselves when they were at school made them very biased towards a group of outsiders like the scoobies, and they often fell into the trap of making Cordelia too one-dimensional in response. Especially in season 3 where they seemed to lose any interest in giving her character development or having her do anything but showing up for one or two scenes to snark at Xander or flirt with Wesley. And yeah looking back now the insults between Xander and Cordelia were very often instigated by Xander when she's just hanging out with her friends and talking to them. For example in Reptile Boy she's talking to her friend about college guys and Xander butts in to insult her so she insults him right back, and then it's always Xander's hurt face that they focus on urgh, never mind that he was the one who instigated the insults in the first place most of the time. But they saw it as Cordelia being the popular mean girl and Xander the geeky underdog, so they always framed those scenes from Xander's POV