Watching Buffy on Logo

[samsom]

Family

And all of it is great, and makes me miss this show like whoa.

But

SPIKE.

How can someone so morally ambiguous be so adorable? It's hard to pay attention to just about anything else when he's in an episode.

*sigh* I guess I'm one of those fans. *pulls on wet panties, joins brigade*.

Also, the chip is so confusing sometimes. Most of the show, it's about Spike's awareness of what he's doing - hurting humans. Except in Family. There, he punches Tara to establish her humanness. So that suggests the chip works independent of Spike's intentions. Unless Spike knew she was human already and was just showing the others...?

Stupid show for not being clearer on this.

Triangle.

Wow. Here's something I never quite digested before. Amidst Riley's accusations of Buffy not opening up to him enough still ringing in the air, there's Buffy in her room, opening up to Dawn about Riley and how much it hurts that he left. So Buffy can open up, in the right circumstances, to the right person. It's just a guess, but it probably involves not being pressured to, subtle or otherwise.

And watching that scene again, it dawns on me that even though it wasn't love love with Riley, it was caring and affection and a genuine delight in being with him. And she was genuinely hurt by his leaving. But maybe it's mixed with a sad inevitability, as well - that he was right, she couldn't give him what he wanted from her.

Yep. He's better off with Sam the Perfect.

AKA Buffy-Without-the-Baggage.

And Buffy...she's the hero, the Slayer. Despite my Spuffyness, it's sort of clear to me that it's not about who she's with, but who she is...in the end. Spike's perfect for her because he's pretty much the only one who understood this.

And why is this called the Tara and Willow Forever! Marathon (on Logo) when things like Triangle and Checkpoint weren't big with the witchy love?