banner!fear

[timepiececlock]

ok, just went to see the B/A banner at the www.televisionwithoutpity.com forums.

My reaction?

Initial: Bleh. Grow up. Don't waste your money. Jane E. said the Buffy/Spike love story is her favorite plot arc, hah!

Belated, hidden: **fear builds deep in heart that somehow, somewhere, Joss will see this, and against all logic and rationality change his mind, and have Angel get back with Buffy, and it will be horrible for so many many reasons oh please make it stop!!!!**

Third: Bleh. Grow up. Spend your money on SaveFarscape! banners instead.

Comments

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Oh god no.

What I'm saying is that Joss built this show around a small cute chick who can kick anyone's ass. And what it's going to be remembered for is if she chose a blond vampire or a brunette. Bleh. It would be FINE if that was an integral part of the whole. But as the key to the series ENDING? Why? What is that doing for the genre, hell, for TV in general, that hasn't been done a million times before? Some guy gets redeemed by the twuu loooove of a girl who forigves him his trespasses (again, this goes for Angel or Spike) and they wander off into the sunset. For gods' sakes, if I wanted to watch that I'd turn on Seventh Heaven.

I wanna see mayhem and majik and death and destruction, and Buffy realizing that she can stand on her own for a while, and be that "just a girl" she's been craving since to be since S1. And that she's still kick ass.

(I'd also like to see Spike and Angel go back to LA and realize that when Buffy is in her prime, neither one of them are worth her ass. Then they can shag one another into glorious oblivion with- er.. you know, I'm a slasher, butnot deluded enough to think that's gonna actually happen. ;} )

[(Anonymous)]

Hehe, well, that's okay then. I agree there is far too much pressure put onto who Buffy will end up with in the end, it would be a very Jossian twist to have it be no-one.
I'm still rooting for Buffy to realise she'll never be a normal girl (that there is no such thing) -- and that's okay.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

And what it's going to be remembered for is if she chose a blond vampire or a brunette. Bleh. It would be FINE if that was an integral part of the whole. But as the key to the series ENDING?

I've had a mini-revelation here, and I think I see what the problem is here. If there is an Angel crossover at the end (I'm unspoiled), that would lead to a situation of "choose the guy." If Angel is not present or part of the series finally, and things with Spike develop normally as they are, then it will be scene as "an integral part of the whole", because the main thing in Buffy's life would be saving the world. Spike's always taken a back seat to that, in everything we've seen before, and I think if even if Buffy did have a gushy moment saying "I wuv you Spwikey" and all that, it would not be the defining moment of Buffyverse. I've never realy worried that it would, because I've always thought that one reason Spike's relationship with Buffy worked is because it did not conflict with her destiny (like w/ Riley), or overrun it completely (like w/ Angel).