because Xander was suddenly The Dude every girl wanted
They sort of make fun of this in the first arc of the comics, which pretty much confirms that it's pandering. Buffy dislikes porn? Turn her into a porn star. Admitting it's pandering, doesn't make it not pandering. Having "Team Spike" Andrew say it's ruining everything doesn't make it *not* destructive to the ship, it makes it worse.
S8 embraces a bunch of offensive fanboy tropes. It's like a satire...except at the end of the day, whether you've done it to make a trope, they still turned the characters into everything they were meant to be against. Thus destroying them. It's like, if you're an atheist and you want to make fun of religion by turning God into a crazed lunatic, you still confirmed the existence of God. You derail the whole point.
S8 Buffy exhibits just about every negative female stereotype there is. She's opposite of her characterization for 7 years.
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because Xander was suddenly The Dude every girl wanted
They sort of make fun of this in the first arc of the comics, which pretty much confirms that it's pandering. Buffy dislikes porn? Turn her into a porn star. Admitting it's pandering, doesn't make it not pandering. Having "Team Spike" Andrew say it's ruining everything doesn't make it *not* destructive to the ship, it makes it worse.
S8 embraces a bunch of offensive fanboy tropes. It's like a satire...except at the end of the day, whether you've done it to make a trope, they still turned the characters into everything they were meant to be against. Thus destroying them. It's like, if you're an atheist and you want to make fun of religion by turning God into a crazed lunatic, you still confirmed the existence of God. You derail the whole point.
S8 Buffy exhibits just about every negative female stereotype there is. She's opposite of her characterization for 7 years.