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Post by CowboyGuy on Feb 29, 2008 18:10:53 GMT -5
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Post by mandikaye on Feb 29, 2008 18:23:39 GMT -5
Wow - thanks for posting this! How was Xander with him for a whole year though?
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Post by Rebecca on Feb 29, 2008 18:23:40 GMT -5
"This past year has been the best in my life" ? Xander spent a year with Dracula as his "buttmonkey"? That's almost hard to believe. Kinda puts perspective on the length of time between Chosen and Season 8. EDIT: Oh yeah, thanks for posting this btw... am I alone in hating how Xander looks??
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Post by CowboyGuy on Feb 29, 2008 18:26:13 GMT -5
Plus Xander was looking all haggard and shit!
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Post by mandikaye on Feb 29, 2008 18:31:40 GMT -5
Makes you wonder how Xander is all commander cool now, if he spent so much time with Dracula. How did his character evolve to what it is now, if he was all "manservant" for so long? The timeline seems to be fraying...
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Post by Rebecca on Feb 29, 2008 18:32:34 GMT -5
i wholeheartedly agree. there needs to be more backstory.
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Post by CowboyGuy on Feb 29, 2008 18:43:20 GMT -5
Gotta be at least two years between Seven and Eight.
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Post by Rebecca on Feb 29, 2008 18:47:05 GMT -5
Maybe they will tell us in the next arc
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Post by spikeangelus on Feb 29, 2008 19:47:36 GMT -5
Very nice read. Thank you for posting this. Like everyone else, I'm wondering how Xander ended up spending an entire year with Dracula. More back story would be nice. a general idea of how much time passed between season 7 and this story may fix that.
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Post by Melissa on Feb 29, 2008 19:58:15 GMT -5
What a coincidence. I just started reading Tales of the Vampires for the first time.
I never knew that Xander spent a year with him. He's all evil is he not? But aww Drac loves Xander. Love that *tear*.
I'm glad I got a little primer before reading this, if not I would have been like WHAA??
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Post by barryshaft on Feb 29, 2008 20:16:49 GMT -5
Thanks Cowboy Guy! I've wanted to read the "Tales" books for a while. Are they considered canon?
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Post by Jinxieman on Feb 29, 2008 21:13:09 GMT -5
I think the bigger questions is Why did it take a whole year for Buffy to come rescue him?
I wouldn't get too hung up on that year comment. Maybe Xander being with Dracula for a few weeks improved his whole year that much... Or maybe Dracula was being overly dramatic...which he is through the whole story...
Someone else said to keep in mind that the entire Tales of the Vampire is actually being told in the future by an ancient Vampire to a group of children being trained to be future Watchers...so it could be his exaggeration.
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Post by TC on Feb 29, 2008 21:44:58 GMT -5
Why's everyone asking about the timeline? To me it seems like Xander will be taken after the next arc, but that's just my opinion, really. Thanks for posting this, btw! I really wanted to read it!
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Post by CowboyGuy on Feb 29, 2008 21:55:58 GMT -5
Why's everyone asking about the timeline? To me it seems like Xander will be taken after the next arc, but that's just my opinion, really. Thanks for posting this, btw! I really wanted to read it! Hmm never thought about that. Would Xander really disappear with Dracula for that long though? Seems like he'd be missed.
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Post by BuffyFanOne on Feb 29, 2008 22:31:34 GMT -5
hmm. Interesting story. I think it must take place some time after the Wolves ark. I can't imagine that was before season 8. Perhaps it takes place between issues of the wolves ark. I doub't that that ark will span a years time though so I guess it has to be a prior to or post season 8.
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Post by xmadxscientistx on Feb 29, 2008 22:44:30 GMT -5
I can has theory?
What if Xander was so depressed over Anya's death, he decided he was ready to die, and it backfired on him? He thought, there's a vampire Buffy couldn't kill. Seemed like a pretty quick and easy suicide, right? Wrong. Dracula makes Xander his manservant instead.
Bit of a stretch, but that's my guess.
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Post by patxshand on Mar 1, 2008 1:24:37 GMT -5
Saying something along the lines of "this past year has been the best of my life" doesn't imply that the entire year was spent with him. Say Xander was there from March-July, Drac could still say "this past year" and it would make sense. It doesn't have to be an entire year.
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Post by mandikaye on Mar 1, 2008 2:06:25 GMT -5
That is a good point, patxshand. It just seemed odd to me, that's all.
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Post by alexa on Mar 1, 2008 3:42:40 GMT -5
I liked this story in Tales.. not my favourite though. Think my fav was with the guy who pretends to be God.
Anyway the year thing didn't bother me.. we don't know what the context is. I found it more interesting that Dracula loved Xander.. and saw himself as a sad old man.
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Post by Slayer489 on Mar 1, 2008 5:21:50 GMT -5
What the hell? Xander spent a year with Drac? Yeah right! It was probably Dracula being dramatic. Also, Xander looks like a hunchback and his hands are too big and he looks just...bad! I hope this is cleared up or happens at some point in "Wolves At The Gate". I so don't get it...
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