I just have to point out--Buffy doesn't even offer Angel his I love you. Not the first one. He asks her point blank if she loves him, and she says, tentatively, yes she does love him. After the first I love you, she does volunteer the I love yous. But Spike's is the first we ever see her offer unsolicited like that.
Just sayin'.
But that only underlines your point, I think. That the intimacy that she dipped her toes in during that I-love-you-flamey-hands moment with Spike was so, so new and utterly terrifying, that when she isn't immediately nurtured in that new space, she retreats.
Love this. Also love that you point out that Angel was filmed with a gauzy lens in Chosen. I don't think I'd fully processed that before.
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I just have to point out--Buffy doesn't even offer Angel his I love you. Not the first one. He asks her point blank if she loves him, and she says, tentatively, yes she does love him. After the first I love you, she does volunteer the I love yous. But Spike's is the first we ever see her offer unsolicited like that.
Just sayin'.
But that only underlines your point, I think. That the intimacy that she dipped her toes in during that I-love-you-flamey-hands moment with Spike was so, so new and utterly terrifying, that when she isn't immediately nurtured in that new space, she retreats.
Love this. Also love that you point out that Angel was filmed with a gauzy lens in Chosen. I don't think I'd fully processed that before.