[ SECRET POST #7036 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7036 ⌋

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My teenager started watching Buffy, a show I loved as a child - yay!

She watches it at her Dad's house - that's cool, we can still talk about it during the time I have her.

My child likes XANDER?!?!?!?! Disappointing, or at least weird, but honestly not surprising since my ex-husband and Xander share personality flaws, and my child idolizes her father.

[(Anonymous)]

Sad to report to you, that also your child is a teenager and he is cute.

[(Anonymous)]

DA - I can confirm that many a teenager loved Xander back in the day as well. Almost like he was meant to be appealing to teenage girls in the audience.

[(Anonymous)]

tbh as a teen, I liked Xander a lot. On rewatch as an adult, Xander comes across a LOT differently to me. I've heard the same from other friends. He's one of those characters where how much you like him seems to correlate to how grown up/experienced you are.

[(Anonymous)]

It’s not just that Xander is cute to a certain teenage eye. He’s openly self-conscious and awkward in a way that resonates for a lot of young people. Wants to be cool, wants to measure up, only manages to be a class clown, feels not good enough and out of place. Pretty relatable.

Having awful boundaries, unhealthy ideas about sex/women/relationships, and not supporting his friends very well… that’s stuff it took a lot of people a few more years to appreciate.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, and I think it's the kind of thing that stands out more when you rewatch and realize the lack of character growth between "high school sophomore" Xander and "adult in his 20s" Xander.

It is a right of passage!

[(Anonymous)]

I loved Xander when I first watched Buffy as a teen. It was only on rewatches or later seasons when I was okder that I started to look at him differently.

Possible unpopular opinion.

[(Anonymous)]

Xander may have some really icky moments, but I think having "normal" character in the middle of a bunch of super-powered or super-educated characters who still manages to contribute is good. I think people lose sight of the guy who fixes the windows in the midst of all the discourse. And I say this as a woman and a feminist.

[(Anonymous)]

Tbh when I first watched the series when it was coming out, I was around 11 years old and really liked Xander. That being said when I had a rewatch several years later, he became my least favorite throughout the first series :'D

[(Anonymous)]

I get why this is a hard blow, especially because you had the ill fortune to have wed a Xander of your own, but I think it's easy to like Xander when you're young and you're just starting the show-- and it's going to be easy for her to see only the good parts if she does equate them with her dad.

But, you know... it looks like a *lot* of us here started out liking Xander, and grew to dislike him as we grew-- either during the run of the show, just seeing more and more of his less appealing side, or on a rewatch as an older teen or adult.