Drive-by post: Outing myself

[liz_marcs]

Yes, indeed. I just outed myself over on TwOP as someone who actually likes Kennedy.

Truthfully, by the end of S7, I liked her more than Willow.

Granted, introducing Kennedy in S7 sucked because she, like Andrew, stole time away from the characters I really cared about (Buffy, Giles, Xander, and Willow).

Despite that, I still like the character. Unlike Andrew. Whom I hate with the passion of a thousand fire-y nuns seriously dislike, mostly because ME kept shoving him down my throat and playing DEMAND LOVE when it came to Andrew.

First I'm a Xander fan. Now I'm a self-proclaimed Kennedy-liker.

Is it any wonder my corner of Buffy fandom is cold and lonely?

I fully expect to be ripped apart by Kittens over on TwOP.

Maybe I can distract them with catnip...

Comments

[aadler]

Hmm. I didn’t like Kennedy myself — though I didn’t actively hate her, either — but I’m always willing to check out someone else’s viewpoint.

Problem is, you don’t actually say why. You admit to liking Kennedy, and some of your later comments explain why you’ve never been big on character-hate (with which stance I generally agree), but you never explain why you would like Kennedy. This puzzles me.

The people who felt that she (and, in a related example, Eve) were shoved at the viewer without adequate preparation or justification — i.e., this is what we’re giving you, so you’ll take it and like it — cover most of my objections to Kennedy. That, and the writing of the character didn’t make her particularly likable. I respected her energy and initiative, but there wasn’t anything to really recommend her to me. In fact, to my memory, the closest she came to a genuinely human moment was when she briefly withdrew after Willow sucked out some of her energy for emergency power.

I’m not saying you’re wrong to like the character. I just still don’t know why, and I want to. Your reasoning is usually worth listening to, and I don’t feel that we really got the benefit of it this time.

Did you, perhaps, go into more detail at TWoP? And if so, is there a direct link?