Huh. I thought it was pretty obvious from my Spuffy posts. Yep, I adored Season 7 Spike, and S6 Spike. And 6-7 Buffy as well. I started watching with Bargaining, so I'm one of those late-coming fans who got starry eyed for the dark side of Spuffy, and weren't burned. How could I be burned or disappointed? I don't have all the expectations for Spuffy that a lot of people did, so the way it turned out was cool and wicked and beautiful and ugly and perfect to me. I got up in arms about the attempted rape, because by then I was deeply emotionally attached. But yep, I loved all of season 7. That's how it is with relativelynewbies.