I've almost stopped reading gen Buffy-fic (anything that doesn't mention Xander as a major character) because of the tendency to portray him as either evil or stupid, or totally unimportant to the group. An additional set to this is the Xander-centric stories that portray him as the poor, mistreated Scooby that the girls abuse and mistreat, either to pair him with Spike or some cross-over female.
Okay, so I love my Xander... when portrayed genuinely.
In the same vein, I hate those slash fics that make Buffy and Willow out to be the bad guys that want to destroy Xander's Big Gay Love or the ones where Xander and the gang aren't even friends.....poor Zeppo that nobody loves and all barely tolerate. I feel like saying, way to pick up on a shade of nuance and paint the whole damn fence that color.
I agree, I never liked the ones that had to work that hard to make the Spander feasible. 'Course, I suppose that circles back around to the OOC thing. Buffy and Willow may have been insensitive at times in canon, but that doesn't make them bad guys.
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Okay, so I love my Xander... when portrayed genuinely.
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In the same vein, I hate those slash fics that make Buffy and Willow out to be the bad guys that want to destroy Xander's Big Gay Love or the ones where Xander and the gang aren't even friends.....poor Zeppo that nobody loves and all barely tolerate. I feel like saying, way to pick up on a shade of nuance and paint the whole damn fence that color.
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(Anonymous) 2008-12-18 03:57 am (UTC)(link)