Comments | magratpudifoot: "See now, I think it's the daddy thing that's throwing her."

magratpudifoot

"See now, I think it's the daddy thing that's throwing her."

Feb 15, 2012 01:55

Oh my heck, I do not think I can ever read the comments on Mark Watches Buffy again. Or any other fan community. But definitely not that one.

[shudder]

It's not the commenter's fault. I have to assume zie is watching along with Mark and has only seen up through "Amends" and has no inkling of what zie typed. But that doesn't mean I didn't ( Read more... )

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bizarreoptimism February 15 2012, 15:13:38 UTC

I am slightly nervous to say this, but: while I wouldn't have necessarily known what to make of a Joyce/Spike relationship, I REALLY would have enjoyed the show a lot more (and probably could have watched it till the end) if they had chosen to make Spike another paternal figure for Buffy instead of an ill-fated love interest. I woulda LOVED that.

Again: the Spike/Joyce relationship (which I assume is the thought that made you fling and hiss) woulda been ick-inducing, don't get me wrong. (In fact, I gotta stop thinking about that before _I_ have to spend several minutes rocking back and forth while cuddling my Jack Sparrow blanket.) But that aside -- wouldn't a paternal!Spike to Buffy (instead of just to Dawn) been kinda COOL??? The fact that he doesn't actually appear much older than her (but of course IS much MUCH older than her) coulda made such a dichotomy all the more interesting ...

Ah well. ;-)

(No, Spike user icon, I apparently will never stop whining ;^P) magratpudifoot February 15 2012, 16:34:06 UTC

Ya know, it's really not SO much that I am grossed out by the thought of Joyce and Spike together if he had turned out to be a significantly different character. The trouble is, when it comes right down to it, the reason I love Joyce and Spike interaction so very much is because it is founded in Spike's deeply-rooted mommy issues. All of his relationships are, really, which is why all of his romantic relationships are so twisted and ultimately unsustainable (and why I could never truly ship Spike with *anyone*, at least not until well into the comics), and why it is his relationships with women who are for one reason or another sexually off-limits to him (Joyce, Dawn, Fred, Willow, Buffy in BS7) that wind up being his healthiest friendships. I don't find it gross to think of Joyce with Spike, I find it gross to think of Spike with someone who is unavoidably a stand-in for his own mother ( ... )