Re: A Second Look: BTVS S6D6

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> 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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> 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.

I 90% agree with you on that.  My hesitation is that I think his S6 
attraction to Warren went deeper, though I don't think he grasped what
that 
pointed to.  And never got far enough for him to have to confront the 
notion.