I go from interpreting it as thoughtlessness to deliberate cruelty.
Yeah, I had a long comment I ended up not posting because I felt like I was just hardcore hating on Cordelia. Truth be told, being shown how sensitive and empathetic she can be makes it hurt more. Like you, I initially thought she was just being thoughtless, but being shown these depths of her character makes it worse. She knows how everyone else is suffering and what does she choose to do? Look out for numero uno. Her pain, her status, her her her.
It's the moments when she breaks away from this pattern that I like her best like when she tells Buffy the truth in When She Was Bad or when she gives Buffy a ride home in Helpless.
It's really only when she turns her back on her status-seeking ways that I really start to feel for her (or really right before that in BBB).
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Yeah, I had a long comment I ended up not posting because I felt like I was just hardcore hating on Cordelia. Truth be told, being shown how sensitive and empathetic she can be makes it hurt more. Like you, I initially thought she was just being thoughtless, but being shown these depths of her character makes it worse. She knows how everyone else is suffering and what does she choose to do? Look out for numero uno. Her pain, her status, her her her.
It's the moments when she breaks away from this pattern that I like her best like when she tells Buffy the truth in When She Was Bad or when she gives Buffy a ride home in Helpless.
It's really only when she turns her back on her status-seeking ways that I really start to feel for her (or really right before that in BBB).