I edited my comment so I could rant. And then I killed the comment limit by about 1.5k characters.havocthecatMarch 23 2008, 20:42:36 UTC
Spike/Dru was awesome! Back when Spike was a good bad guy instead of a boring, overused Angel-substitute! (I have Spike issues.)
EXACTLY. Possibly I shouldn't get into my seething, burning hatred of Buffy/Spike. I would rant SO HARD on it.
ETA: So, like, the above was my placeholder, because at the time I typed this, my son was sitting on my lap, and it took me five minutes to get those three sentences typed out. Here's the thing. During second season, I fell hard for Spike and Drusilla, not to mention Dru/Spike, because despite the fact that they were all kinds of fucked up, even before Angelus came back into the picture and woke up all Dru's previously-latent daddy issues (oh, the Freudianism, did we have to go there?), Spike and Dru were actually one of the two devoted couples on the series. (The other was Giles/Jenny, which, not uncoincidentally, I also fell for hard. And I maintain that they were not just devoted, but healthy until the retcon of Jenny's Roma heritage came into play. Argh.)
Otherwise, what did we have? The Romeo & Juliet that was Buffy and Angel, the I-want-you/I-want-someone-else that was Willow/Xander, and the increasing adorableness-but-tentative-start of Willow/Oz (and that's not to say I didn't read my fair share of those pairings and more, because this series was definitely where I got my start in mad multishipping). But none of those were really couples who were devoted solely to each other. Even though Buffy and Angel were devoted to each other, there was still Darla in season one, and Dru in season two, and let's not get into the tangled mess that was Willow/Xander and Willow/Oz.
EXACTLY. Possibly I shouldn't get into my seething, burning hatred of Buffy/Spike. I would rant SO HARD on it.
ETA: So, like, the above was my placeholder, because at the time I typed this, my son was sitting on my lap, and it took me five minutes to get those three sentences typed out. Here's the thing. During second season, I fell hard for Spike and Drusilla, not to mention Dru/Spike, because despite the fact that they were all kinds of fucked up, even before Angelus came back into the picture and woke up all Dru's previously-latent daddy issues (oh, the Freudianism, did we have to go there?), Spike and Dru were actually one of the two devoted couples on the series. (The other was Giles/Jenny, which, not uncoincidentally, I also fell for hard. And I maintain that they were not just devoted, but healthy until the retcon of Jenny's Roma heritage came into play. Argh.)
Otherwise, what did we have? The Romeo & Juliet that was Buffy and Angel, the I-want-you/I-want-someone-else that was Willow/Xander, and the increasing adorableness-but-tentative-start of Willow/Oz (and that's not to say I didn't read my fair share of those pairings and more, because this series was definitely where I got my start in mad multishipping). But none of those were really couples who were devoted solely to each other. Even though Buffy and Angel were devoted to each other, there was still Darla in season one, and Dru in season two, and let's not get into the tangled mess that was Willow/Xander and Willow/Oz.
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