On Mar 7, 6:42 pm, chr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer Arbitrar Of Quality <tsm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > It's always a bit weird seeing him as one of the principals in S7 for
> > that reason. The weird thing is how well it mostly works, but how I
> > think of him as a source of humor who's tied very specifically to that
> > time and place. When the character appears in another setting (i.e.
> > ATS, the comic), he's not nearly as enjoyable.
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> Yeah. I would have been just as happy if he had quietly faded away
after
> Chosen. Nothing he's done since then (really, since Storyteller) has
> really added much to the Buffyverse. He still earns an occasional laugh
> from me, no denying it, but is it really enough to merit the screen
> time/page space he's gotten? I'm not so sure.
No, it's not.
> Admittedly Andrew did guest star in one of my favorite AtS S5 episodes,
> The Gir-- Just kidding! I mean Damage, of course. But while he worked
> well enough, he certainly wasn't what made the episode.
Yeah, yeah, I know you're one of those TGIQ pseudo-fans. Flaunt your
relative lack of taste or something.
On the topic of Andrew, you also muse about whether he's "bi rather
than just gay." The hypothesis I'm tossing around in my head right
now treats Andrew as basically a***ual, or having kinda a prepubescent
worldview. He fixates on and tries to emulate people like Spike or
Warren or Capt. Archer because he thinks they're cool, in a comic-book
hero/villain sort of way. Like many young boys who haven't gotten
interested in girls (or boys, or whatever) yet, you know he fantasizes
about being like Robin when he reads a _Batman_ comic. A lot of what
Andrew knows about love he learned from watching _Star Wars_ and
reading paperback swords-and-sorcery books, so he's a fan of Troo Wuv
stories like Kennedy's quest to win the tortured heart of her witchy
lover, but afterwards when they're just making out, he gets bored.
He's much more aware of *** than the ten-year-old I'm comparing him
to, but I don't get a sense that he cares much about it.
-AOQ
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