Thanks for posting this :) I also bristled a little at the "would you let your little sister date Spike", whilst endorsing Buffy/Angel, even when Angel was set up as the original bad boyfriend
It's double standards being applied to Spike and his fans again, and I tire of the attempted rape being brought into every discussion with Spike/Buffy, whilt ignoring how Joss himself choose to portray Spuffy together in season 7. Seeing Red's bathroom scene should not be the final word on Spuffy when episodes like Showtime, Potential, Storyteller, Touched, and Chosen were all clearly romantic images for them after that scene. Judging the entire relationship on the attempted rape is as fair as judging the whole of the Buffy/Angel relationship on Angelus mocking Buffy over her virginity in Innocence, or judging Willow/Tara entirely on the mind wipe from All The Way. Characters and relationships will go through journey's in the Jossverse
no subject
It's double standards being applied to Spike and his fans again, and I tire of the attempted rape being brought into every discussion with Spike/Buffy, whilt ignoring how Joss himself choose to portray Spuffy together in season 7. Seeing Red's bathroom scene should not be the final word on Spuffy when episodes like Showtime, Potential, Storyteller, Touched, and Chosen were all clearly romantic images for them after that scene. Judging the entire relationship on the attempted rape is as fair as judging the whole of the Buffy/Angel relationship on Angelus mocking Buffy over her virginity in Innocence, or judging Willow/Tara entirely on the mind wipe from All The Way. Characters and relationships will go through journey's in the Jossverse