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Sort of agree on what you state above on Xander.
I admittedly gave up on the comics after S8 completed its arc. That said, regarding Xander/Dawn?
I shudder at Xander & Dawn as a couple since, to me, they are like brother and sister and I find the pairing as creepy as Giles with any of the kids under his charge.
I agree. Not helped by the fact that the actor who portrayed Xander was 15-20 years older. He's about 48 now. MT is in her early twenties. Putting Xander with Dawn, was a bit like putting Cordelia with Connor.
Nick Brendan apparently agrees with us. He poked fun at it at Q&A at one of the Cons. (I watched it on YouTube, a while back.) It's hilarious, because he's sitting next to James Marsters at the time. And Marsters, who is about 5-6 years older than Brendan, had considered dating MT at one point, and is married to a woman that is MT's age. You watch him in the clip try to crawl under the table.
I think Brendan may have convinced the current writers to break up that relationship, once he joined the comic writing team.
I think Xander worked best with Cordelia or maybe Anya, because he needed someone who could put him in his place. And you're right both Xander and Cordy did make each other better people.
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Date: 2015-07-28 01:04 am (UTC)Sort of agree on what you state above on Xander.
I admittedly gave up on the comics after S8 completed its arc. That said, regarding Xander/Dawn?
I shudder at Xander & Dawn as a couple since, to me, they are like brother and sister and I find the pairing as creepy as Giles with any of the kids under his charge.
I agree. Not helped by the fact that the actor who portrayed Xander was 15-20 years older. He's about 48 now. MT is in her early twenties. Putting Xander with Dawn, was a bit like putting Cordelia with Connor.
Nick Brendan apparently agrees with us. He poked fun at it at Q&A at one of the Cons. (I watched it on YouTube, a while back.) It's hilarious, because he's sitting next to James Marsters at the time. And Marsters, who is about 5-6 years older than Brendan, had considered dating MT at one point, and is married to a woman that is MT's age.
You watch him in the clip try to crawl under the table.
I think Brendan may have convinced the current writers to break up that relationship, once he joined the comic writing team.
I think Xander worked best with Cordelia or maybe Anya, because he needed someone who could put him in his place. And you're right both Xander and Cordy did make each other better people.