frelling_tralk

Xander and Willow's home life's just always seemed near enough nonexistent most of the time to the writers, we never even meet Xander's father before season 6, so maybe that's why I didn't find it as emotionally resonant to use his father in the culmination of his dream. Buffy fearing being nothing but a killer, and Willow fearing always remaining a geek deep down, those are both pretty much signposted before Restless as a major part of those characters issues, whereas Xander fearing becoming like his family is sort of there in previous episodes, but it's never really developed that much