maggie2

Totally coherent. And I agree Spike wasn't in pursuit of Buffy to the exclusion of all else in season 7. I'm just trying to find a way to explain why I'm not in a hurry to criticize Spike for not doing enough to try to contact Buffy in AtS. For me it's because season 7 Spike was already moving on (in the full belief that she wanted him to move on eventually) that it makes sense that he's ready to accept Andrew's portrait of Buffy having unproblematically moved on romantically. It is off, though, that Spike is so hooked into the romantic pessimism that he doesn't notice that it's weird that Buffy isn't interested in talking to her resurrected friend or miffed that newly resurrected friend didn't contact her directly.