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Entry tags:	actor: nicholas brendon, fandom: btvs, fandom: lifetime movies lulz, movies, o_0, omgwtfbbq, spoilers zomg!, tv

buffy does not approve;
My Neighbor's Secret.

I honestly have to say, this movie may have traumatized me a bit tonight! NICHOLAS BRENDON, WHY. D:


XANDER IS NOT ALLOWED TO BE AN ABUSIVE HUSBAND CRAZY PERSON CREEPER MURDERER, OKAY?

As Lifetime movies go, I really didn't think it was all that thrilling, but that could be bias because OMGWTFBBQ WHAT WAS THAT CHARACTER. I don't really want him to be stuck in the acting horridness of typecasting, but COME ON.

Usually, I don't deeply associate one and only role with an actor (I tend to save that for RP and PBs used, haha). There are some where one role is what I think of most, but I'm not usually jarred right out of the story by the discrepancy. But Nicholas Brendon is Xander to me, so much so that while Relative Chaos a few years ago was a cute sort of movie for a TV movie, I spent most of the time making Buffy references about his character and Charisma Carpenter's character.

But this movie? SO JARRING. I still think it wasn't the most original storyline, which Lifetime movies rarely are, but there was nothing really gripping about it to make the idea its own. That said, I found I couldn't really get into it because every time the character was creepy, my brain felt like it wanted to switch over to an abort sequence. I actually watched at least two parts of it over the corner of a couch pillow, not because it was horror movie material, but because watching him talk in a truly deranged fashion to his laptop whilst spying on people was SO VERY WRONG.

He was oozing creepiness from the moment he came on screen and that was why I didn't turn the channel, I was just sitting there going "what am I seeing? seriously, WHAT?" in that Trainwreck Syndrome Way. I. Could. Not. Look. Away. I could have turned the channel. (There were probably much better things to watch!) But I didn't, because I had this strange need to see how it would end.

And God, did it end just as creepy as it started.

Dear Hollywood,

Give this boy some quality roles STAT.

No Love Until You Do,
Me.

I was going to compare it with the sheer wtfery my mind went through in watching Dean Cain (the actor behind my FAVORITE INCARNATION of Clark Kent/Superman EVERRRRRRR) be Scott Peterson, but even that was less creepy!

So yes, if you're in shoes like mine (seeing N.B. be a scary creeper would weird you out) this might not be the best way to spend two hours of your life.


I think a "Xander's Greatest Hits"-type Buffy marathon may be in order.