There were a lot of annoying Bander or Xander/Buffy shippers in the Buffy fandom during the original airing 1996-2003. And in the 20th Century, that was the trope? Putting Buffy with Spike or even Angel went heavily against the trope established in the 20th Century. Buffy did a lot of things no one else did. Now, they do it all the time, but twenty-five to thirty years ago? They didn't.
Back in the 20th Century, they paired the heroine with the nice guy. The movie - Buffy the Vampire Slayer paired Buffy with the nice guy, who was not a vampire. The Xander character. It's one of the many reasons why it didn't work.
It wasn't Whedon who changed that up - by the way, that was David Greenwalt, who convinced Whedon to do in a different direction and make the vampires more complicated. It saved the series. Fans give Whedon far too much credit for that series, all you have to do is watch his other things - to realize it was the collaboration of all those writers and producers that made the series. I mean there's a reason the other ones didn't do quite as well.
Yeah, the Little Bad of S6 was the Troika (Warren, Andrew, and Jonathan - who were all basically versions of Xander's character or the writers at their worst), the Big Bad was actually Dark!Willow or how the Scoobie Gang was handling things.
Re: Regarding Xander
Back in the 20th Century, they paired the heroine with the nice guy. The movie - Buffy the Vampire Slayer paired Buffy with the nice guy, who was not a vampire. The Xander character. It's one of the many reasons why it didn't work.
It wasn't Whedon who changed that up - by the way, that was David Greenwalt, who convinced Whedon to do in a different direction and make the vampires more complicated. It saved the series. Fans give Whedon far too much credit for that series, all you have to do is watch his other things - to realize it was the collaboration of all those writers and producers that made the series. I mean there's a reason the other ones didn't do quite as well.
Yeah, the Little Bad of S6 was the Troika (Warren, Andrew, and Jonathan - who were all basically versions of Xander's character or the writers at their worst), the Big Bad was actually Dark!Willow or how the Scoobie Gang was handling things.