Although it does sort of fit with his 'give up the day job' line in Something Blue.
True, although he is evil there, and her day job was hunting his kind. I always thought it was a bit weird, too.
well hell it's Buffy and Spike being declarative about feelings which is never not worth seeing.
That was gratifying, even though I didn't like the outcome.
s7!Buffy is Buffy to me.
Exactly! S9!Buffy is lamentably foreign to me.
There's some serious cognitive dissonance going on here.
Great way to describe it.
in my head!canon he's totally the kind of guy who wants to be a dad anyway
Oh, yeah, that's definitely mine, too. I think it was easy to make that assumption even before the comics. And even if he weren't a parental type in general, he'd definitely be that way for Buffy's baby.
And he's pretty much unconcerned? Fuck Chambliss and Whedon for pissing all over Spike's reaction to the bot in Bargaining. I loved those scenes so much and now this. /rages
I know it's a fool's hope but honestly, I wish Joss and co would just let Buffy and Spike's relationship run its natural course without stupid OTT obstacles getting in the way all the time (robot arm I'm looking at you!) or just shut the ship down canonically altogether so the shippers will know where they stand.
Yeah, I mean, I'd even be "okay" with Buffy telling Spike flat-out she doesn't want him that way (I wouldn't be happy about it, obviously). I'm not okay with the writers contriving to prolong and stall the resolution as they did here. It reeks of silly rom-com tropes.
There is no cognitive dissonance, because Buffy never said anything about WANTING to be "normal" or have a "normal" life. It was just Spike's assumption that this is what she wants. In fact, she was saying the exact opposite. "But, Spike... if I were trying to have a normal life, you'd be exactly what I'd be running away from". If she were... because she's not. And she's clearly not running away from him at all. She's touching him tenderly and looking at him when she says that. It's reassurance, not rejection. (Then she facepalms in the next panel, realizing it came out wrong and he took it the wrong way.)
I think Buffy is realizing that she isn't cut out for "normal" and that she doesn't even really want "normal".
Also: I love and unashamedly continue to love the "dark place" line (which was in #37, not #40). I don't want Spike to be "normal", I don't want Buffy to be "normal", whatever the heck that means. I don't want them to turn into the couple from the cover.
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True, although he is evil there, and her day job was hunting his kind. I always thought it was a bit weird, too.
well hell it's Buffy and Spike being declarative about feelings which is never not worth seeing.
That was gratifying, even though I didn't like the outcome.
s7!Buffy is Buffy to me.
Exactly! S9!Buffy is lamentably foreign to me.
There's some serious cognitive dissonance going on here.
Great way to describe it.
in my head!canon he's totally the kind of guy who wants to be a dad anyway
Oh, yeah, that's definitely mine, too. I think it was easy to make that assumption even before the comics. And even if he weren't a parental type in general, he'd definitely be that way for Buffy's baby.
And he's pretty much unconcerned? Fuck Chambliss and Whedon for pissing all over Spike's reaction to the bot in Bargaining. I loved those scenes so much and now this. /rages
THIS.
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Yeah, I mean, I'd even be "okay" with Buffy telling Spike flat-out she doesn't want him that way (I wouldn't be happy about it, obviously). I'm not okay with the writers contriving to prolong and stall the resolution as they did here. It reeks of silly rom-com tropes.
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I think Buffy is realizing that she isn't cut out for "normal" and that she doesn't even really want "normal".
Also: I love and unashamedly continue to love the "dark place" line (which was in #37, not #40). I don't want Spike to be "normal", I don't want Buffy to be "normal", whatever the heck that means. I don't want them to turn into the couple from the cover.
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