Comments on: The Near Occasion of Plot http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/10/29/the-near-occasion-of-plot/ Cheating on the Kobayashi Maru since 2001 Fri, 01 May 2026 11:07:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Monkey! http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/10/29/the-near-occasion-of-plot/#comment-165 Fri, 01 Nov 2002 06:49:06 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/10/29/the-near-occasion-of-plot/#comment-165 I'm not a Buffy watcher, but after your correlation to the X-Files there, I understand exactly what you mean. I hardly even watched the last season because of all the crap with the new characters and all the Plot infecting everything. Definitely a monster episode girl. These execs need to realize that we don't want our favorite shows to piss us off, unsurprisingly. Grrr. I’m not a Buffy watcher, but after your correlation to the X-Files there, I understand exactly what you mean. I hardly even watched the last season because of all the crap with the new characters and all the Plot infecting everything. Definitely a monster episode girl. These execs need to realize that we don’t want our favorite shows to piss us off, unsurprisingly. Grrr.

]]> by: Jemima http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/10/29/the-near-occasion-of-plot/#comment-164 Thu, 31 Oct 2002 02:19:49 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/10/29/the-near-occasion-of-plot/#comment-164 Don't pull my chain, Veronica, that Xander was trying to save Anya from a skillety death. As for saving Anya from a hate-filled marriage, I don't buy it. They didn't have a hate-filled relationship. The way to save your wife from a bad marriage is to (1) behave better than that, or (2) divorce her. Leaving her at the altar is not a solution, especially not to a problem that doesn't exist yet. Xander didn't do it for Anya, nor did he do it for himself (which would have at least been reasonable). He did it for Joss. Don’t pull my chain, Veronica, that Xander was trying to save Anya from a skillety death.

As for saving Anya from a hate-filled marriage, I don’t buy it. They didn’t have a hate-filled relationship. The way to save your wife from a bad marriage is to (1) behave better than that, or (2) divorce her. Leaving her at the altar is not a solution, especially not to a problem that doesn’t exist yet.

Xander didn’t do it for Anya, nor did he do it for himself (which would have at least been reasonable). He did it for Joss.

]]> by: mike http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/10/29/the-near-occasion-of-plot/#comment-163 Thu, 31 Oct 2002 01:13:37 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/10/29/the-near-occasion-of-plot/#comment-163 I thought it was pretty clear, if not explicit enough, that Xander left Anya because he saw himself becoming his father and his father's marriage, and he didn't want to do that to Anya. He loved her too much to trap her in a hate-filled marriage. It's not "right," however, that he hasn't explained this to anyone since then. That's just not fair to viewers or to the character of Xander. I thought it was pretty clear, if not explicit enough, that Xander left Anya because he saw himself becoming his father and his father’s marriage, and he didn’t want to do that to Anya. He loved her too much to trap her in a hate-filled marriage.

It’s not “right,” however, that he hasn’t explained this to anyone since then. That’s just not fair to viewers or to the character of Xander.

]]> by: Veronica http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/10/29/the-near-occasion-of-plot/#comment-162 Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:09:22 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/10/29/the-near-occasion-of-plot/#comment-162 Xander didn't leave Anya because of the whole hoary old shrew issue, but because he saw himself killing her with a frying pan - note the meaningful look he gave his drunken, abusive father after the fake vision of the future. Xander didn’t leave Anya because of the whole hoary old shrew issue, but because he saw himself killing her with a frying pan - note the meaningful look he gave his drunken, abusive father after the fake vision of the future.

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