Well, I'll agree to disagree about who's pandering.
When Spike said he was a braggart he was talking about things like killing slayers (School Hard). Very different from coming across as so hard up for sex that one would go around boasting of it to others.
And as I said, the comments to Angel in Destiny are totally about Buffy and totally not generic boasting about getting laid. There's a world of difference here, and the fact that Brian presumably can't tell the difference is a big part of why I don't think he gets Spike, or his relationship with Angel. I wish I could remember specific examples, but there's a ton of meta on LJ by people who totally get what was going on in Destiny and that it had NOTHING to do with the sort of adolescent posturing that Brian has Spike doing. (Sorry, it's a button for me -- and I'm willing to believe that your understanding of Spike is quite different from my own, which would be why it doesn't bug you as much.)
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Date: 2009-01-14 01:34 am (UTC)When Spike said he was a braggart he was talking about things like killing slayers (School Hard). Very different from coming across as so hard up for sex that one would go around boasting of it to others.
And as I said, the comments to Angel in Destiny are totally about Buffy and totally not generic boasting about getting laid. There's a world of difference here, and the fact that Brian presumably can't tell the difference is a big part of why I don't think he gets Spike, or his relationship with Angel. I wish I could remember specific examples, but there's a ton of meta on LJ by people who totally get what was going on in Destiny and that it had NOTHING to do with the sort of adolescent posturing that Brian has Spike doing. (Sorry, it's a button for me -- and I'm willing to believe that your understanding of Spike is quite different from my own, which would be why it doesn't bug you as much.)