The Replacement

During class discussion for this episode, I noticed that people seemed really confused by the fact that Xander's two halves weren't balanced. There is a really simple explanation for it though: No people have completely balanced personalities, that's what makes everyone individual.

This idea of either being one thing or the other, reminded me of being a child. When you're little, you either like hamburgers or hotdogs, ketchup or mustard, coke or sprite... the concept of favoring something is lost on children. Everything is black and white, there is no grey. Of course... thinking about children then lead me to "The Turn of the Screw" and the dopplegangers that can be seen there. If you remember what Janelle wrote on the board the day we started "Turn of the Screw" there was a whole big mess of parallels between the characters. Ex: Douglas vs. Miles... etc. ...

Point of this post is: Oh my God. There are doubles everywhere!