That was a great read, Maggie! I always enjoy reading your stuff!
That sad, I'm very much in turmoil. I have avoided anything Btvs/fandom-y for years. I thought I was completely over Btvs (although I still loved Spuffy dearly...my favourite couple/storyline ever), but then, recently, I did a Btvs/Ats rewatch, and got sucked in in the 'verse all over again.
Then, I read that in issue 36 Spike was back in the picture (it's difficult to avoid the comics completely, when you are a member of a Buffy forum! LOL ), and I started reading about the comics to see what happened, and what was going to happen with Spike. And boy, do I wish I hadn't bothered!
I liked Chosen. It wasn't perfect, but I thought it was the absolutely perfect way to end the show (a hopeful future for Buffy and the gang, both Spuffy and Bangel validated, freedom for the viewer to imagine where the characters would go from there, etc...). The show should have been left alone, and the comics should never have been made. I will never change my mind about that!
But the comics exist, and I don't like pretty much anything about them, judging from what I have read around. I am not one of those people who can disregard them, though, because I understand they are considered canon. Beside the murdering of Spuffy (we will never have another "reunion scene". We got what we got, and it was the worst possible), we find a verse in which things are even more troubled and depressing than they were before...so much for Buffy's hopeful smile at the end of Chosen. These stupid comics are undoing everything that season 7 had achieved, for me.
I'm trying to put some distance and not be so invested... but these comics are really making me unhappy. I am trying to be ok with a Spuffy friendship, but no matter how much I try, it's not enough for me. I don't expect a happily ever after, but I would like Buffy and Spike to make love (or even just kiss) even only just once, when it actually matters.. not when Spike was soulless and Buffy was using him, but when both of them want it for the right reasons. I think Spike would deserve that, and the Spuffy fans would as well.
But I guess it's pretty impossible, as long as Buffy sees Angel as her first choice, and the love of her life. *barf*
Sorry for the poem, I haven't talked about Btvs so much in years! LOL *wants to go back to bubble of unawareness*
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That sad, I'm very much in turmoil. I have avoided anything Btvs/fandom-y for years. I thought I was completely over Btvs (although I still loved Spuffy dearly...my favourite couple/storyline ever), but then, recently, I did a Btvs/Ats rewatch, and got sucked in in the 'verse all over again.
Then, I read that in issue 36 Spike was back in the picture (it's difficult to avoid the comics completely, when you are a member of a Buffy forum! LOL ), and I started reading about the comics to see what happened, and what was going to happen with Spike. And boy, do I wish I hadn't bothered!
I liked Chosen. It wasn't perfect, but I thought it was the absolutely perfect way to end the show (a hopeful future for Buffy and the gang, both Spuffy and Bangel validated, freedom for the viewer to imagine where the characters would go from there, etc...). The show should have been left alone, and the comics should never have been made. I will never change my mind about that!
But the comics exist, and I don't like pretty much anything about them, judging from what I have read around. I am not one of those people who can disregard them, though, because I understand they are considered canon.
Beside the murdering of Spuffy (we will never have another "reunion scene". We got what we got, and it was the worst possible), we find a verse in which things are even more troubled and depressing than they were before...so much for Buffy's hopeful smile at the end of Chosen. These stupid comics are undoing everything that season 7 had achieved, for me.
I'm trying to put some distance and not be so invested... but these comics are really making me unhappy. I am trying to be ok with a Spuffy friendship, but no matter how much I try, it's not enough for me. I don't expect a happily ever after, but I would like Buffy and Spike to make love (or even just kiss) even only just once, when it actually matters.. not when Spike was soulless and Buffy was using him, but when both of them want it for the right reasons. I think Spike would deserve that, and the Spuffy fans would as well.
But I guess it's pretty impossible, as long as Buffy sees Angel as her first choice, and the love of her life. *barf*
Sorry for the poem, I haven't talked about Btvs so much in years! LOL *wants to go back to bubble of unawareness*