Xander’s wrist is broken by Olaf in Triangle and he wears a sling in Checkpoint. It was previously broken in Becoming (Part 1). His girlfriend Anya’s shoulder was dislocated in Real Me and she wore a sling in The Replacement. Olaf also continuously beat Xander with his hammer, which was supposed to be extremely powerful - enough to beat the god Glory to a bloody pulp in The Gift. So if the hammer was able to hurt Glory to the point of helplessness, how was it that Xander, an ordinary human, was able to get right back up from multiple hits (including the head) from the hammer?
March 7th, 2006 at 1:16 am
In Joss’s commentary from ‘Chosen’ (at least I think it was ‘Chosen’) he says that he got a lot of flack about the uber-vamps being easily killed by the likes of Giles, Xander, etc when Buffy was almost beaten to near-death by one. His reply was that it was true. If it worked better for the story to make them easy to kill, then they were going to do it. So, my point is this: it was better for the story to let Xander get off easily and for Buffy to pound Glory like a slab of beef.
March 7th, 2006 at 3:22 am
The Adventures of Mega Xanderrrrrr!
July 18th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
Hmmm….that sounds like a good show.