Yeah, Hard Candy has been one of the very, very few fics I've read that have maybe insinuated itself as canon in my head... I catch myself watching eps and thinking, hey, Hard Candy, then realizing that really, those fics weren't episodes!
Well being interested in S7 Spike probably made S7 much more interesting! I think something just didn't hook me.. I just read someone's LJ in which they described the on again off again Buffy Spike relationship in S7 as not really developing their characters, and I tend to agree. We get to see Buffy kind of care for Spike but not say anything, and that ambivalence doesn't quite have the attraction that the S6 relationship did. I guess mostly it was the sense of resolution I felt after Spike got his soul and subsequently went nuts. I loved the Spike who tried to be good despite himself and who didn't know what the hell he was doing, and I guess the soul kind of took a bit of that away for me. Although I absolutely loved his final scene in Chosen.
And no worries about spoilers -- am spoiler whore most of the time. And oh, I desperately want Angel/Spike interaction with more Fanged Four history.
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Re: Spike and Hard Candy
Date: 2003-09-11 12:00 am (UTC)Well being interested in S7 Spike probably made S7 much more interesting! I think something just didn't hook me.. I just read someone's LJ in which they described the on again off again Buffy Spike relationship in S7 as not really developing their characters, and I tend to agree. We get to see Buffy kind of care for Spike but not say anything, and that ambivalence doesn't quite have the attraction that the S6 relationship did. I guess mostly it was the sense of resolution I felt after Spike got his soul and subsequently went nuts. I loved the Spike who tried to be good despite himself and who didn't know what the hell he was doing, and I guess the soul kind of took a bit of that away for me. Although I absolutely loved his final scene in Chosen.
And no worries about spoilers -- am spoiler whore most of the time. And oh, I desperately want Angel/Spike interaction with more Fanged Four history.