TV Couples That People Stopped Shipping As The Show Went On

[just444]

21 TV Couples That People Stopped Shipping As The Show Went On https://t.co/HPpcZpFFHr
- BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) October 18, 2020

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5/21 TV Couples People Loved At First But Ended Up Absolutely Hating

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[chaos_organised]

never understood buffy/spike ugly relationship from beginning to end 🤢
i'm kinda sad about jonah/amy they were really sweet for a while.

[ahkna]

Me either.

He's 100+ years old. She's a teenager he wants to murder. Then she's a teenager he wants to fuck, so he convinces someone to make a sex robot that look exactly like her that he can fuck whenever he wants. Then when she's isolated and deeply mentally traumatized, he preyed on a 20 year old's vulnerabilities because he wanted to fuck. And that's before you even get into the attempted rape.

Why do people hate Buffy so much they liked this for her?

[villanellesalt]

People shipped themselves with Spike. It happens a lot with couples like this. They don't give a shit about the female counterpart. Bella, Buffy, Elena... they're merely self-inserts for some of these people.

[ahkna]

Definitely. That's one of the reasons I absolutely LOATHE Jane Espenson's writing because she like violent, cruel men and the female character always needs to be actively ignoring the red flags.

[ghastly]

I figure that it allows for both the "bad boy she can fix" stereotype & the fact they were allowed to be slightly more graphic with their sex scenes than they were in the early seasons with Angel, so it was deemed more appealing as a result.

I loved Spike as a villain + I loved Spike on "Angel," but Spuffy was always a no-go for me.

[ahkna]

Probably. Although Angel and Buffy was even more gross because Buffy was a literal child and he's an old man who stalked her.

[ghastly]

Yes, and Angel literally murdered her surrogate father's girlfriend.

But "bad boys" in a vampire show who aren't actually evil aren't that common.

[kjesta]

I still have not watched more than 3 episodes of Buffy and this is horrific, wtf.

[ahkna]

Yeah, her relationship before that was with a 200+ year old vampire who stalked her from age 15, fucked her on her 17th birthday, then turns evil.

A lot of it is portrayed as tragic or romantic as well instead of adult men preying on young women. :/

[meow_tan]

i can like a character and still like to see them in "bad" situations or even toxic relationships. i dont know where this idea came from that if you like a character you can only want them to be happy 24/7 all the time. thats not how i engage with fiction or how im interested in it.

[ahkna]

lmao. i think you're misunderstanding the conversation and the context.

[spacemonkey_699]

I shipped them so much when it was airing and I was a teenager, now I look back like jesus teen me, that's not it, what that is is extremely damaging.

[ahkna]

sometimes i look back on what i was obsessed with as a teen and it is scary

[anna_drenxavier]

SAME. I was so excited when they got together, but that had a lot to do with my crush on James Marsters. Spike was an interesting character, but their "romance" was just sick and twisted.

[skyler_white_yo]

Buffy and Spike were horrible from beginning to end.

[goferkevey]

I liked when Spike had the chip and he didn't know how to process his murderous rage and it turned into an infatuation, and I dont hate the way Buffy fell into his arms in season 6, but I hate when they started acknowledging feelings for each other. I wish Buffy was able to heal and realize how awful Spike was and cut him out completely.