With you on disliking these all-important issues coming up in a crack!episode. Really with you on that.
To leave Buffy in the theoretical lurch about his resurrection is at odds with the Spike who loved her unconditionally in S7. He respects her too much not to pick up the phone and talk to her, himself.
I don't think he'd see it as leaving her in the lurch. I think he'd see it as letting her off the hook. It bothers me that he waits to renew the friendship because he's focusing on letting her off the hook romantically -- but I buy that he's still in a place where that'd make sense to him. And if he never tried to renew the friendship, I'd think it was really bad. But I think he tried in TGIQ, and all I'm left with is the hole in the plot where he finds it easy to believe Andrew's portrait of a Buffy who doesn't even care about the resurrection of a friend.
So I've still got a mild OOC against your pretty damn OOC.
Love your last sentence. That's the whole point! It's when we have oxes to be gored that the plot contrivances bite. We just have different oxes. (Or better put, I'm so pessimisitic about the Spuffy ox that I just assume along with Spike that it's been long since gored, and deep down I'm kind of glad to have been spared the scene where she tells him that she really didn't mean it).
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Date: 2010-02-22 06:38 am (UTC)To leave Buffy in the theoretical lurch about his resurrection is at odds with the Spike who loved her unconditionally in S7. He respects her too much not to pick up the phone and talk to her, himself.
I don't think he'd see it as leaving her in the lurch. I think he'd see it as letting her off the hook. It bothers me that he waits to renew the friendship because he's focusing on letting her off the hook romantically -- but I buy that he's still in a place where that'd make sense to him. And if he never tried to renew the friendship, I'd think it was really bad. But I think he tried in TGIQ, and all I'm left with is the hole in the plot where he finds it easy to believe Andrew's portrait of a Buffy who doesn't even care about the resurrection of a friend.
So I've still got a mild OOC against your pretty damn OOC.
Love your last sentence. That's the whole point! It's when we have oxes to be gored that the plot contrivances bite. We just have different oxes. (Or better put, I'm so pessimisitic about the Spuffy ox that I just assume along with Spike that it's been long since gored, and deep down I'm kind of glad to have been spared the scene where she tells him that she really didn't mean it).