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Rather slow and draggy day. Looking forward to taking off next weekend to the poconos to visit my aunts, who are rather fun. And I haven't seen or spent much time with since I was a small child and they were teenagers. It's all so very nostalagic in a way. Also attempting to draw and then do watercolors from recent photos taken of my neice. We shall see if I can do it. Haven't watercolored or drawn anything seriously for about five years. A bit on the rusty side.
Read a few posts on Spuffy, and the ambivalence many people felt towards BTVS's or canon's depiction of the Spuffy or Buffy/Spike relationship. Maybe ambivalence isn't quite the right word? At any rate they were comparing the relationship to one that I was really ambivalent about: Cordelia/Angel. Can't say I disliked them, so much as I was mildly curious and sort of ambivalent. I watched Ats for Wesley, Illyria/Fred, Lilah, sometimes Gunn (in S5 definitely Gunn), Lorne, Drusilla, Darla, and the Spike/Angel relationship. All of which I'm still getting with the possible exception of Wes, Darla and Lilah in the comic books. So, yay, me. I wasn't ambivalent towards Buffy/Spike. It remains amongst my favorite television couplings. For a lot of reasons. That said, I remain unsatisfied in how it was resolved or the fact that the writer seems to want to drag out the non-resolution for forever and a day in the comic books. Oh, I know full well what the writer's intent was - but it left me unsatisfied, in much the same way that ATS and the Spike/Angel relationship left me unsatisfied. It was as if both were left sort of up in the air. Brian Lynch - has actually to a degree resolved the S/A relationship to my satisfaction - they exchanged ring-tones at the end of Angel After the Fall and more or less acted like the Sam and Dean of the Whedonverse (except unrelated). Brothers in blood if not by biology. Acknowledging each other's strengths and weaknesses and moving past their rivaleries. Whedon, unlike Lynch, hasn't satisfied me on any of his characters relationships...which is rather aggravating. My tolerance for being teased is only going to last so long before I give up and move on to greener pastures (ie. fanfic - wait, already there.)
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Read a few posts on Spuffy, and the ambivalence many people felt towards BTVS's or canon's depiction of the Spuffy or Buffy/Spike relationship. Maybe ambivalence isn't quite the right word? At any rate they were comparing the relationship to one that I was really ambivalent about: Cordelia/Angel. Can't say I disliked them, so much as I was mildly curious and sort of ambivalent. I watched Ats for Wesley, Illyria/Fred, Lilah, sometimes Gunn (in S5 definitely Gunn), Lorne, Drusilla, Darla, and the Spike/Angel relationship. All of which I'm still getting with the possible exception of Wes, Darla and Lilah in the comic books. So, yay, me. I wasn't ambivalent towards Buffy/Spike. It remains amongst my favorite television couplings. For a lot of reasons. That said, I remain unsatisfied in how it was resolved or the fact that the writer seems to want to drag out the non-resolution for forever and a day in the comic books. Oh, I know full well what the writer's intent was - but it left me unsatisfied, in much the same way that ATS and the Spike/Angel relationship left me unsatisfied. It was as if both were left sort of up in the air. Brian Lynch - has actually to a degree resolved the S/A relationship to my satisfaction - they exchanged ring-tones at the end of Angel After the Fall and more or less acted like the Sam and Dean of the Whedonverse (except unrelated). Brothers in blood if not by biology. Acknowledging each other's strengths and weaknesses and moving past their rivaleries. Whedon, unlike Lynch, hasn't satisfied me on any of his characters relationships...which is rather aggravating. My tolerance for being teased is only going to last so long before I give up and move on to greener pastures (ie. fanfic - wait, already there.)
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