People keep secrets - Season 8 revolves around everyone keeping secrets.
True... in fact, in the bit of my post you quoted, I expressed the same disbelief. But I don't think Scott Allie felt the need to clarify that Buffy knows what Andrew knows purely for his health. Unless he's deliberately obfuscating, we're supposed to assume Buffy knows Spike's alive.
As for Buffy's feelings, the fact that she's fantasizing about Angel and Spike shows us she still cares.
No... it shows she still has sexual fantasies about them. You can have sexual fantasies about someone without caring about them. (Buffy also has fantasies about Daniel Craig, doesn't mean she cares about him other than thinking he's hot.) There's more evidence that she cares about Angel from #20, but so far, nothing comparable for Spike.
The thing that doesn't make sense is her knowing and acting like she doesn't care.
Well, if you're referring to Angel as well with this, we don't actually know what she knows, since After the Fall isn't finished yet. For all we know, Los Angeles could be right back where it's supposed to be (as #21 indicates), so she knows Angel is safe (assuming he makes it out alive/undead).
By the same reasoning, she could know Spike is safe, and even care about him the same way she cares about Angel, but feel no compulsion to contact him, since the relationship is over.
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True... in fact, in the bit of my post you quoted, I expressed the same disbelief. But I don't think Scott Allie felt the need to clarify that Buffy knows what Andrew knows purely for his health. Unless he's deliberately obfuscating, we're supposed to assume Buffy knows Spike's alive.
As for Buffy's feelings, the fact that she's fantasizing about Angel and Spike shows us she still cares.
No... it shows she still has sexual fantasies about them. You can have sexual fantasies about someone without caring about them. (Buffy also has fantasies about Daniel Craig, doesn't mean she cares about him other than thinking he's hot.) There's more evidence that she cares about Angel from #20, but so far, nothing comparable for Spike.
The thing that doesn't make sense is her knowing and acting like she doesn't care.
Well, if you're referring to Angel as well with this, we don't actually know what she knows, since After the Fall isn't finished yet. For all we know, Los Angeles could be right back where it's supposed to be (as #21 indicates), so she knows Angel is safe (assuming he makes it out alive/undead).
By the same reasoning, she could know Spike is safe, and even care about him the same way she cares about Angel, but feel no compulsion to contact him, since the relationship is over.