What's your opinion on how the writers handled Walker's character? I honestly feel like the show did him dirty and discarded his character on a whim. Like the Secret Society episode, Walker was so out of character to simply ignore Buffy's feelings to make some grand but overly complicated gesture. Then they simply got rid of him simply so Muffy could happen. It's not like Buffy and Walker had much chemistry in the first place. But he had so much potential.
oh BABY *cracks knuckles* I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY ABOUT THIS
The show did Walker SO DIRTY I can’t even grasp it. Here’s the thing: idk if he was introduced simply as a complication/ drama to get in the way of Jandi and trigger Jonah’s panic attack & them becoming an official “couple,” but the fact of the matter is WALKER AND ANDI HAD WAY MORE CHEMISTRY THAN ANDI AND JONAH **EVER** DID. Walker was an AMAZING character. He was kind to Andi, clearly really into her, they had so much in common. He was extraordinarily nice to her and to Cyrus, he was funny and sweet and just a really cool, charismatic character in a way we hadn’t really seen on the show yet.
Something I loved about Walker was just… he was so respectful and did not let jealousy get in the way of how he treated Andi?? Like, when she told him she had a boyfriend now, he was still like “here keep the custom shoes I MADE YOU,” and “it’s cool, I get it, see you around” like he was CLEARLY upset because again, he really liked her, but he was incredibly mature for a 14 year old boy and handled it really well.
Then, Wuffy happened, and everything was destroyed. It was pretty OOC for Walker to get over Andi that quickly. It was very clear to me that he was really into her! He designed her shoes and made a painting with her and sketched her!!!!! They had so much in common, they made a great pair, and frankly the only reason Andi didn’t go for it was because Jonah came and asked her to be a couple, which was ~what she had always wanted~, so she just went with it. (AND ITS SO IRONIC BC LOWKEY JONAH DIDN’T WANT TO BE A LABEL ANYWAYS HE ONLY DID IT BC HE WAS AFRAID OF LOSING ANDI FOREVER IM SCREAMING GOODBYE)
About the prom-posal thing, Walker was clearly a hopeless romantic so to me, his prom-posal didn’t actually seem that out of character, nor was Buffy’s reaction to it (because she’s not a hopeless romantic and she doesn’t like big things like that). What was out of character was that they even got together in the first place. Walker and Buffy were not a good pair at all and it was one of the more out-of-left-field decisions the show made. It was p clear it was only made bc the show was nervous that they wouldn’t get Garren back to play Marty, and they wanted Buffy to have some love interest: TJ was already gonna be with Cyrus, so they were probably like “okay Jonah’s has to be with Andi and Buffy can be with Walker, sick” but then when they found out they could get Garren back they were already in p deep with Wuffy and so they had to figure out a way to have Buffy drop Walker and go to Marty without looking like a shitty person. SO IN ORDER TO DO THAT, they assassinated Walker’s character. They had Buffy say that Walker made her shoes and Buffy and Andi started joking about how “there are probably so many girls walking around wearing his shoes ew gross he’s such a player” and IM LIKE/?????
First of all, it was OOC to make Walker make shoes for Buffy: shoe-making for girls isn’t like a common flirting tactic, it was CLEARLY something Walker had tailored for Andi because of her great fashion sense and the painting they made together. Like, it would make no sense from his POV to make shoes for Buffy lmao. AND NOW ON TO THE PART THAT MAKES ME MOST FURIOUS OF ALL: THE HYPOCRITICALNESS WAS ***INSANE***
BECAUSE HERE THEY ARE DRAGGING WALKER FOR APPARENTLY BEING A “PLAYER” BC HE WAS WITH 2 GIRLS, MEANWHILE YOU HAVE JONAH FUCKING BECK STANDING RIGHT THERE, WHO KISSES A DIFFERENT GIRL EVERY WEEK?? LIKE ARE YOU SHITTING ME?
ALSO… the fact that the boy of color gets labeled a player and is discarded but the cute white boy gets away with 10x that and is still seen as a protagonist/ guy worth being a love interest???? just… that didn’t sit super well with me :( no hate towards Jonah I love my boy, but if they were gonna call Walker out on something as small as that, they should have been dragging Jonah way more than they did.
At the end of the day, I’m glad that Andi ended the show single, but Walker was a great love interest towards her and he was a great character on his own. He could have had an awesome friendship with Cyrus, too: they had a lot of great chemistry. WALKER DESERVED BETTER I will die on this hill.
