How would it have been different that instead of proposing at the end of season 5 Xander proposed after saving Willow at the end of season 6? Would he and Anya gotton married in season 7 or would there still be a Hell's Bells type of story?
What if Xander proposed at the end of season 6 instead of season 5?
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Robb Stark
King in the North
I think it would have been much, much smoother. Just purely as a fan, we wouldn't have had to endure a season and a half of Anya sulking and plotting revenge on Xander because the writers didn't have anything else to do with her.
But character wise, I think it would have been better. Xander and Anya, even though I personally didn't care for them together, clearly deeply cared for one another and loved each other. Neither of them were mature enough to handle a life-long commitment when the proposal was made though and Xander clearly wasn't ready to get married.
Plus, while I didn't have a problem with Anya's death, it would have made it a bit more meaningful. I liked Joss' idea of having a main cast member die in an unexpected and non-epic way, but by "Chosen" it seemed (to me at least) that Xander and Anya had pretty much moved on emotionally from one another.
But character wise, I think it would have been better. Xander and Anya, even though I personally didn't care for them together, clearly deeply cared for one another and loved each other. Neither of them were mature enough to handle a life-long commitment when the proposal was made though and Xander clearly wasn't ready to get married.
Plus, while I didn't have a problem with Anya's death, it would have made it a bit more meaningful. I liked Joss' idea of having a main cast member die in an unexpected and non-epic way, but by "Chosen" it seemed (to me at least) that Xander and Anya had pretty much moved on emotionally from one another.
white avenger
white avenger
Whenever they chose to get married, if her old victim, now demon, came to screw up the ceremony, the results would almost certainly been the same, but we would have had to wait that much longer for the axe to fall. If, however, Xander and Anya had ELOPED at the end of Season 6, things would possibly have worked out better, at least until Wolfram & Hart sent an evil marriage counselor to Sunnydale to get at Buffy by screwing over her friends.
Joss had come to the decision that Xander and Anya had been happy for far too long for members of the Whedonverse, so, ultimately, their relationship as it had been progressing was doomed.
Whedonverse Prime Directive: Happiness and harmony (the feeling, not the vampire) must be eradicated at all cost, preferably to the displeasure of the fans, and the least popular relationships will seem to drag out the longest . That's the main reason Kennedy survived the battle in the Hellmouth. The series ended with only that relationship left intact, while Buffy had sent Angel away with pretty much the instructions, "Don't call me, I'll call you," Spike had rejected Buffy's declaration of love, Anya was dead, Faith and Wood were pretty much doomed from the get go, and Giles hadn't even had his casual stewardess girlfriend since "Hush" in Season 4.
Joss had come to the decision that Xander and Anya had been happy for far too long for members of the Whedonverse, so, ultimately, their relationship as it had been progressing was doomed.
Whedonverse Prime Directive: Happiness and harmony (the feeling, not the vampire) must be eradicated at all cost, preferably to the displeasure of the fans, and the least popular relationships will seem to drag out the longest . That's the main reason Kennedy survived the battle in the Hellmouth. The series ended with only that relationship left intact, while Buffy had sent Angel away with pretty much the instructions, "Don't call me, I'll call you," Spike had rejected Buffy's declaration of love, Anya was dead, Faith and Wood were pretty much doomed from the get go, and Giles hadn't even had his casual stewardess girlfriend since "Hush" in Season 4.
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Tuppence
I love the 'harmony(the feeling, not the vampire)' comment. And I agree with everything else