Question about the love interests in the show.

Hi everyone,

I just read yet another post saying they can’t watch one episode because of the Xander/Willow cheating or how Willow badly handles her relationship with Tara.

I totally understand the ‘’cringey’’ part of watching this again if that makes you uncomfortable. But I’m interested more into how the characters are perceived within the fandom and this subreddit.

It feels sometimes that as soon as a character does something wrong, they’re automatically demoted from the ‘’good characters’’ category and it feels quite unrealistic to me.

Willow seems to be hated among this community because she made several mistakes across the show. I’m not excusing her actions nor I would a real person. However, it sometimes feel like the fans judging the show have NEVER made any mistake in their lives. They’re this sort of paragon of virtue and it irks me sometimes.

They’re flawed characters that are not, by definition, perfect and it makes sense to see them fail. It makes them… human ?

Am I reading too much into the reactions I can read on this subreddit or are these reactions sometimes unreasonable with reality ?

That might be a dumb question, first time I’m asking something in any type of fandom, hope I won’t be skinned alive. (Bored now).