I just had this realization over on elisi's journal (where she notes how crackilicious Buffy/Angel are acting, but is it OOC because Season 8 also had Xander/Dracula):
BRILLIANT. You just proved why Buffy/Angel are possessed by equating it to Xander/Dracula.
(Which I don't you meant to, but...!!!)
Xander and Dracula start off and really aren't BFFs. Xander is flatout terrified at the suggestion he has to go see Dracula because of thrall. He spends an entire issue being OTT BFF with Dracula because of thrall and having Renee trying to shake him out of it. Then Renee dies--Xander completely shakes off the thrall and becomes his own man. Dracula tries to reclaim him as his manservant when Dracula wishes to leave Tokyo and Xander says he'll kill him if ht calls him that name again.
Buffy glow = Xander thrall.
FREE WILL IS A THEME
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Xander/Dracula is one of my favorite bits of the season.
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Date: 2010-09-03 03:12 pm (UTC)BRILLIANT. You just proved why Buffy/Angel are possessed by equating it to Xander/Dracula.
(Which I don't you meant to, but...!!!)
Xander and Dracula start off and really aren't BFFs. Xander is flatout terrified at the suggestion he has to go see Dracula because of thrall. He spends an entire issue being OTT BFF with Dracula because of thrall and having Renee trying to shake him out of it. Then Renee dies--Xander completely shakes off the thrall and becomes his own man. Dracula tries to reclaim him as his manservant when Dracula wishes to leave Tokyo and Xander says he'll kill him if ht calls him that name again.
Buffy glow = Xander thrall.
FREE WILL IS A THEME
Xander/Dracula is one of my favorite bits of the season.