Defending Andrew

[JReed1985]

I know you get many Buffy fans who hate Andrew but to me he's okay, he's more of a traditional nerd compared to Xander.
He has brought comic relief to the season with his nerdy imagination and coming up with many pop culture references.
That doesn't mean he's a great character but to me he's okay in my book.

 

[Lyri]

I think, for me, he falls into that same category that Anya and Spike did - meaning, he killed at least one person and was involved in the death of another and tried to kill or injury Buffy on many occasions and yet he was never held responsible. Not to mentioned what he did to Buffy in S9 without her consent.

Andrew has done too many questionable things for me to think of him as a decent character. I guess my own moral code is too high in that regard, lol.

 

[white avenger]

One positive thing that CAN be said for Andrew is that he'll never be as useless a character as Jar Kar Binks. But I think the season would have worked out better with Jonathan than with Andrew.

Getting away with murder seems to be Joss' second favorite theme. Right off hand, I'm hard pressed to recall more than a couple of people in the Buffyverse who actually managed to go the entire 7 years WITHOUT killing someone. Joyce, Dawn, and Tara are about the only ones that I can recall who weren't killers at one time or another.

 

[Ethereal Warrior]

I agree that having Johnathan around would have been better given his previous ties to the Buffy and the others. However, if the roles were reversed, then it would have been Johnathan who killed Andrew, and I like to think that among the trio, Johnathan was always the one with the most heart.

I didn't mind Andrew. He was annoying at times but I did like that he was a full-on nerd and added a much needed lightheartedness to season 7 in a role that Xander had almost lost by that point. He killed, yeah, but what was he supposed to end up doing, go to jail? I think in the world of the mystical, doing that just wasn't that possible. I don't think he got away with murder, he did have remorse and he did end up fighting for the good side in the end. Even though Buffy lived in the real world, she also lived in the mystical and fantastical one. Regular rules of right and wrong, of the law, just didn't apply as well and I was willing to overlook it.

I suppose his redemption would have been better served if he had died fighting to help the others, dying instead of Anya but...I don't know, the fact that he does live despite the fact that he should have died does make things a lot more interesting.