Saw this on Whedonesque:
BTVS writer Jane Espenson has a blog, now..
http://www.janeespenson.com/ She loves our Spuffy, yes she does....
She also is responsible for the episode I'm doing tommorrow with some of the greatest Spike lines ever... (AFTERLIFE--Every night I save you..)
What Jane had to say about Spuffy over the years:
Some would say Angel and Buffy really had more of an idealized first love while Spike and Buffy have the more adult, messy, kind of love which is more realistic. That's right. It's not idealized and it's just so often ugly and yet when James Marsters does stuff where you look in his face and you go 'Oh, my God, he loves her so much!' Ahh! It's just so wonderful." - Jane Espenson (Btvs writer)
"How do you follow-up her romance with Angel? I like the romance with Spike better. I'm more interested in the heat between those two characters because I felt Buffy and Angel had romantic love. Spike and Buffy have something so much more complicated that it's got that romance and all this other stuff on top of it which makes it so interesting for me." - Jane Espenson
"They were always so funny. I've been interested in Principal Wood this year. But my number one has got to be the Buffy and Spike love story. I think that is just a gorgeous story." - Jane Espenson