But, yeah, I think you're right. I mean, Buffy is able to use Dru as a hostage in "Lie To Me" a little later and as a bargaining chip in "Becoming", but there's a way to see Spike's reaction to that, as this, as autopilot behavior. He's spend nearly 120 years devoted to Dru. He's ruled by his heart, sure, and to an extent by loyalty, but there are also things that are simply habits. He's not going to think of this obsession as overtaking the old one for Dru, but rather as buttressing the older one.
It's an interesting take on the self-fulfilling prophecy aspect of Drusilla leaving him. He doesn't accept that Buffy is "floating all around" him, and may never have left Drusilla. But Buffy becomes the center of his universe, eventually, proving Dru's point. What if they had stayed together and never darkened the Slayer's existence again, though? Was the bloom off the rose of their long romance? Were the thorns of the new one already set in his flesh? Would the Master have been stuck underground, if Buffy had just gone to the Spring Fling?
Buffy's vitality in comparison with Dru's weakness must be a bit of a gut punch for Dru. I feel sorry for her, too.
You ask some interesting questions. Prophecies are clever, tricky things in the Buffyverse. Is everything that happens part of "destiny" or just happenstance? Maybe Dru knew that Spike was always going to leave her - if not for Buffy, then maybe for a different Slayer, and that was why she pushed him away?
Of course, writing for a TV show as it airs, and gauging fan reaction to plan the course of the rest of the season (and beyond), the writers could very well be contradicting themselves, or accidentally hitting the mark. Either way, we'd be scrambling to come up with an in-universe explanation. :P
But, yeah, I think you're right. I mean, Buffy is able to use Dru as a hostage in "Lie To Me" a little later and as a bargaining chip in "Becoming", but there's a way to see Spike's reaction to that, as this, as autopilot behavior. He's spend nearly 120 years devoted to Dru. He's ruled by his heart, sure, and to an extent by loyalty, but there are also things that are simply habits. He's not going to think of this obsession as overtaking the old one for Dru, but rather as buttressing the older one.
It's an interesting take on the self-fulfilling prophecy aspect of Drusilla leaving him. He doesn't accept that Buffy is "floating all around" him, and may never have left Drusilla. But Buffy becomes the center of his universe, eventually, proving Dru's point. What if they had stayed together and never darkened the Slayer's existence again, though? Was the bloom off the rose of their long romance? Were the thorns of the new one already set in his flesh? Would the Master have been stuck underground, if Buffy had just gone to the Spring Fling?
Buffy's vitality in comparison with Dru's weakness must be a bit of a gut punch for Dru. I feel sorry for her, too.
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Of course, writing for a TV show as it airs, and gauging fan reaction to plan the course of the rest of the season (and beyond), the writers could very well be contradicting themselves, or accidentally hitting the mark. Either way, we'd be scrambling to come up with an in-universe explanation. :P
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