Except, I actually went wherever the writers wanted me to go shipwise. I was B/A until it became clear to me that it was dead in the water. I was B/R until it became clear that was dead in the water - which was Into the Woods. I never forgave Riley for doing that in the manner he did. It was cowardly and immature, and how he came back in As You Were, rubbing it in her face and not giving a damn what had happened to her - made me hate him. What an immature, self-absorbed, egotistical ass. Those two episodes ruined the character for me. After that, I was like, let's not see Riley again.
Regarding the A/R? I was also spoiled for it in S6. Mainly because the people downloading episodes from a satellite feed got Seeing Red before Entropy and felt the need to spoil everyone and include screen-caps. So the internet exploded and the fans acted like whiny five year olds who had just had their best toy taken away from them. I remember wanting to strangle people. You couldn't discuss it rationally with people. You either hated Spike forever and thought he was EVIL! RAPIST! or you were a sick human being and a rapist sympathizer who needed counseling. (Fan does stand for fanatic, which means crazy after all. LOL!) Truth was? He never raped her. Actually he didn't do much more than he'd done in S2, S4, S5...where he'd lunch himself at her neck, try to sink his teeth in and she'd either kick him off or he'd scream in pain. The only difference is they took away the vampire metaphor, and Spike felt remorse, and didn't try again and left in self-loathing and humilation, thinking he was a worm. How people could not see that blew my mind, but people also can't figure out that "Was S3 your Favorite Season Buffy?" literally means S3 was/is your favorite season of Buffy. LOL! People never fail to bewilder me.
I didn't become Spuffy until Intervention. I didn't become obsessed with it until Once More with Feeling, when the writers shocked me. Because I didn't think they'd go there or do that. I honestly saw the relationship as impossible up until Once More With Feeling...and Smashed. Then I went, whoa. When I was watching the show live and unspoiled, I found Spike sort of creepy prior his capture in Intervention to be honest. They surprised me. I became an insane Spike fan after that.
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Date: 2012-03-02 05:45 pm (UTC)Except, I actually went wherever the writers wanted me to go shipwise. I was B/A until it became clear to me that it was dead in the water. I was B/R until it became clear that was dead in the water - which was Into the Woods.
I never forgave Riley for doing that in the manner he did. It was cowardly and immature, and how he came back in As You Were, rubbing it in her face and not giving a damn what had happened to her - made me hate him. What an immature, self-absorbed, egotistical ass. Those two episodes ruined the character for me. After that, I was like, let's not see Riley again.
Regarding the A/R? I was also spoiled for it in S6. Mainly because the people downloading episodes from a satellite feed got Seeing Red before Entropy and felt the need to spoil everyone and include screen-caps. So the internet exploded and the fans acted like whiny five year olds who had just had their best toy taken away from them. I remember wanting to strangle people. You couldn't discuss it rationally with people. You either hated Spike forever and thought he was EVIL! RAPIST! or you were a sick human being and a rapist sympathizer who needed counseling. (Fan does stand for fanatic, which means crazy after all. LOL!) Truth was? He never raped her. Actually he didn't do much more than he'd done in S2, S4,
S5...where he'd lunch himself at her neck, try to sink his teeth in and she'd either kick him off or he'd scream in pain. The only difference is they took away the vampire metaphor, and Spike felt remorse, and didn't try again and left in self-loathing and humilation, thinking he was a worm. How people could not see that blew my mind, but people also can't figure out that "Was S3 your Favorite Season Buffy?" literally means S3 was/is your favorite season of Buffy. LOL! People never fail to bewilder me.
I didn't become Spuffy until Intervention. I didn't become obsessed with it until Once More with Feeling, when the writers shocked me. Because I didn't think they'd go there or do that. I honestly saw the relationship as impossible up until Once More With Feeling...and Smashed. Then I went, whoa.
When I was watching the show live and unspoiled, I found Spike sort of creepy prior his capture in Intervention to be honest. They surprised me. I became an insane Spike fan after that.