Interesting Links for 12-12-2011
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andrewducker- First Private Spaceship Flight to the ISS now has a date.
- Motorola secures Europe-wide sales ban on iPhone, iPad - oh for goodness sake.
- This Banana Alien Might Have Ascorbic Acid for Blood
- The Evolution of Fictional Characters
- If Tarot Cards Actually Predicted the Future
- D&D;: More accurate than you think
- Problems with anti-Mormons and anti-Adulterers - will the demographics hurt the Republicans?
- 57% of people thought that David Cameron was right to use the veto, with 14% disagreeing and 29% don’t know.
- Alternative Engineering - the future of architecture!
- Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels
- AdBlock Plus to allow "acceptable" ads by default soon. I'm actually in favour of this.
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Date: 2011-12-12 12:55 pm (UTC)Indeed. Although to be fair to Xander, the character does start off pretty simple, and makes several efforts to grow, but always ends up falling back into the inneffectual comic most of the time. So I agree the character gets short shrift, but at least it's a "failure to grow from 2D while other characters do" rather than "started interesting but became self parody".
I think it's that the show always needed a comic relief, and couldn't find a way to make Xander consistently competent and still interesting, so he ended up always being a klutz (despite isolated moments of competence).