Part One: The Girl It must really suck to be Cordelia Chase. She was created to represent the alternate life that Buffy Summers could have had, and the shadow desires that still live inside her. Everybody on this show exists in relation to Buffy in some way. She is the nexus of this universe, aroundContinue reading “It Wasn’t Our World Anymore (The Wish)”
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The Big Bad Is Back (Lovers Walk)
It’s April 2004; the sunset days of Web 1.0. A new website has just been created: a cross-media wiki known as TVTropes. It’s a site for fans of all manner to identify and record common storytelling conventions as they recur throughout different pieces of media, and it will grow to become a dominant knowledge-base forContinue reading “The Big Bad Is Back (Lovers Walk)”
We’re Like Sisters, With Really Different Hair (Homecoming)
Since this series started, Cordelia Chase has existed for one specific purpose – to act as Buffy’s Shadow Self. She has represented Buffy’s pre-Slayer self, and her desire to return to that state. That part of Buffy’s life is her childhood – both literally in the sense that she was fifteen years old when sheContinue reading “We’re Like Sisters, With Really Different Hair (Homecoming)”
Insect Reflection 