On one level "Hell's Bells" is completely batshit insane.
However, I suppose you could create an argument that it's kind of the nadir of Xander struggling with his privilege. If marriage is the purest expression of patriarchy then entering into it will give him a power (in the eyes of the world) that he doesn't have without it, but it will also sever his connection with the woman-positive world of Slayage.
Or, it's just Joss sprinkling the wheatgerm of gloom and misery atop the cornflakes of the happy relationship, as per usual.
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Date: 2010-03-21 07:31 pm (UTC)However, I suppose you could create an argument that it's kind of the nadir of Xander struggling with his privilege. If marriage is the purest expression of patriarchy then entering into it will give him a power (in the eyes of the world) that he doesn't have without it, but it will also sever his connection with the woman-positive world of Slayage.
Or, it's just Joss sprinkling the wheatgerm of gloom and misery atop the cornflakes of the happy relationship, as per usual.