Cordelia -- praised if she does, praised if she doesn't
Buffy -- damned if she does, damned if she doesn't
I hated when Cordelia said to Buffy, "This conversation is reserved for people who have a future." She knew most Slayers die before 18 and about all Slayers die by 25. She knew Buffy was murdered at 16. She knew Kendra was murdered. Cordelia was saying, "Shut up, Buffy. Your opinion doesn't matter, you're going to die soon."
Yes! This is actually one of the scenes I thought about when I wrote my first post. But NO ONE calls her on it. She’s a complete hose beast to the girl who has saved her life and took her side with the Xander thing. Buffy may have stuck by Xander, but she made it clear that Xander was wrong and went to console Cordelia. And years later Cordelia is still a bitch when it comes to Buffy. In homecoming, Buffy is righteously angry that Cordelia was too self involved to tell her about the pictures, and when confronted Cordelia instantly goes on the offensive and attacks her verbally...and poor Buffy has no support cause her friends all take Cordelia’s side. Cordelia is also responsible for literally changing reality and mass murder, yet doesn’t feel at all concerned until she sees her car is taken away and she has a curfew. Until she was directly affected in the Wish, she had no empathy or concern for the fact that her wish caused multiple deaths and a hostile vampire takeover. The powers that be have to literally get involved and give Cordelia scathing pain and visions for her to develop any sort
Of empathy for other people. And even then, she is still SO selfish and self
Centered that she honestly believes Angel would be driven crazy without her and falls hook line and sinker for Skips lies. Meanwhile , Buffy, literally chosen at 15 to save everyone and have a death sentence is bullied by Cordelia, and finally betrayed by all her friends and kicked out of her house for some bad
Choices . This girl has given up every chance of normalcy and happiness , including killing her boyfriend and sacrificing her life for her sister and the world , ripped out of paradise and she is still somehow ripped apart. I don’t get it.
And I actually do like Cordelia...this rant may seem otherwise lol, but it’s only because I have an issue when people compare her to Buffy or see her as some radiant girl power saint.
