That's what people never quite got about BTVS - you could put Xander and Willow together, just as you can put Ron and Hermonine together - but you can't put Buffy with Will or Xander, anymore than you could put Harry with Ron or Hermoine. For the symbolic reasons you suggest above and the fact that the story would dissolve into a soap operic romantic triangle - which while interesting, doesn't really move the characters forward well or the plot. Unless you are an incredibly talented writer - you'll end up getting guagmired in the triangle. Stuck. Romance novelists love to do it. But it doesn't work well outside that genre. To be honest, I'm not sure it works well in the genre, but that's just me.
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Date: 2005-08-10 03:25 pm (UTC)But it doesn't work well outside that genre. To be honest, I'm not sure it works well in the genre, but that's just me.