About the Cordelia scenario...I dunno. I know a lot of fans just assume that Cordelia can just boss Xander around whenever she wants, but consider: A) we don't know that Xander we would have been available for Giles to hand the phone to; B) the previous four seasons of television had demonstrated that neither Cordelia nor Xander had kept in contact with each other or maintained any kind of post-high school relationship whatsoever; and C) this was less than a year after Anya had died, and Xander was probably still grieving for her. Assuming that Cordelia would have been able to tell Xander, whom she'd not had any contact with in more than four years, to persuade Willow to help resurrect Cordelia's newly deceased friend while he's still grieving for his ex-fiance, is, IMO, dangerously assuming that Xander wouldn't have told her quietly to fuck herself (or words to that effect).
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Date: 2008-11-04 04:52 pm (UTC)