I often like to reevaluate my thoughts on the show...

[gabrielleabelle]

I'm using this icon because it has Sandy. See what I did there?

I've been rewatching S5 and just finished Into the Woods. Predictably, I have some disconnected Buffy/Riley thoughts for you guys

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[rebcake]

Yup, yup, yup. They were not meant to be, wanted different things, and he created problems where there were none (or few). In fairness, there is another incident that could possibly give more credence to Riley's worries, although he might not know about it. In Buffy vs. Dracula, even before Riley gets the full OOMM power-down, Buffy is shown slipping out of bed to go "hunting", which implies that she isn't being fully satisfied by their night-time activities. I don't only mean sex, though that would be the first guess. ;-) Plus, she never does tell him that she loves him. He worked up the courage to tell her the three little words back in Who Are You?, but it was Faith and she reacted badly. Could've been traumatic.

I've always been pretty agnostic on the Buffy/Riley relationship, thinking he's just too innocent or rigid in his thinking for it to work, but my recent rewatch of Doomed made me see him as an actual, full-fledged jerk. When Buffy refuses to go out with him (because there will be too much drama, essentially) he accuses her of being "self-involved" for refusing. Nice. Then he says he won't force the issue, which is just soooo generous, isn't it? Grr.

[gabrielleabelle]

In Buffy vs. Dracula, even before Riley gets the full OOMM power-down, Buffy is shown slipping out of bed to go "hunting", which implies that she isn't being fully satisfied by their night-time activities.

True. Though that kinda leads to Riley being Joe Normal in the world of the Slayer. In Family, he has a bit of a snit when he feels Buffy is holding out on him. And she is. She's (very badly) keeping the Dawn-as-Key thing a secret. This is absolutely understandable why she would do this as the Slayer. But it's a huge blow for Riley that his girlfriend has this dark, kinda secret world that he doesn't have access to.