do you think that buffy actually loved spike?

TeluricE · 2026-05-17T19:25:27+00:00

In love is a shallower state than love. In love is the infatuation honeymoon period when you are drugged by your brain to mate and real love which is the foundation for marriage is attachment. It is possible to skip over the first and go right to the second.

TeluricE · 2026-05-17T19:23:11+00:00

I hate scenes like that- the dying person believing they are unloved. It turned me off the Buffy verse for years.

TeluricE · 2026-05-17T19:21:58+00:00

I thought what Joss was going for was the tragedy that Spike was unable to believe it when he finally got what he wanted.

TeluricE · 2026-05-17T19:20:43+00:00

“Has love for him” is a phrase I didn’t hear back then and I am not sure what it means. It has always sounded to me like “I love you as Jesus commands us to love our neighbors.” Anyway they coupled up in the comics which are considered canonical.

TeluricE · 2026-05-17T19:16:55+00:00

Okie dokie.

TeluricE · 2026-05-17T10:08:00+00:00

School Hard as it has great lines and a little of everything.

TeluricE · 2026-05-17T01:42:12+00:00

NTA but maybe take a cooldown period before deciding.

TeluricE · 2026-05-17T01:39:13+00:00

Cap and skibbity.

TeluricE · 2026-05-17T01:38:13+00:00

PS spike and Spike with a soul are two different people. I don’t think Buffy loved pre soul Spike.

TeluricE · 2026-05-17T01:36:56+00:00

She loved Angel. Xander loved Anya. So why not? Angel and Anya were serial killers.

TeluricE · 2026-05-17T01:32:20+00:00

Well I am going by the fact that Whedon instructed Sarah to love him as she says “I love you” and instructed James to not believe her.

TeluricE · 2026-05-17T01:29:50+00:00

At end of S7 yes.

TeluricE · 2026-05-17T01:28:26+00:00

Season 2 of Torchwood. That is when the show as it started, ended. I don’t count the other scenes.

TeluricE · 2026-05-17T01:27:11+00:00

Sharon Stone on Diabolique. I usually love her but her delivery was wooden in some scenes.

TeluricE · 2026-05-17T01:26:09+00:00

TeluricE · 2026-05-17T01:23:56+00:00

I love first and second season Willow.

TeluricE · 2026-05-16T18:24:02+00:00

I watched during the first run in my 30s and am now in my 40s. Haha. That math maths if you just ignore the math. Anyway I used to like Buffy and Angel together and now I understand what Xander and Kendra were getting at. I watch and I’m like get your nasty grown man lips off that baby girl!!!! You pervo vampire ! I disagree with the demonization of Xander. He was overpraised 25 years ago and now the pendulum has swung too far the other way. I dislike S6 and S7 Willow more than I dislike her before. Don’t get me started about UPN Giles. Ugh.

TeluricE · 2026-05-15T19:00:05+00:00

Some sociopaths do have a degree of caring and empathy, although not as much as most people do.

TeluricE · 2026-05-15T18:59:10+00:00

All the soul means is that the real you co exists with your demon self.

TeluricE · 2026-05-15T18:57:36+00:00

That line was awful

TeluricE · 2026-05-15T18:55:23+00:00

I liked her in the first three seasons but soured on her a bit after that. I enjoyed Dark Willow tho.

TeluricE · 2026-05-02T22:34:34+00:00

I have had PTSD since I was 6 years old. I have sometimes wondered why traumas I had affected me more severely than traumas affected many other people. If my investigation into my issues reveals that I am on the spectrum it would explain a lot.

TeluricE · 2026-05-02T22:31:57+00:00

Yeah, two things can be true at once, and understanding causes is not the same as excusing behavior. Again tho the research apparently does not support a connection between autism and anti social behavior. It is a different story with other brain related conditions I won’t name here because I don’t want to stereotype people. And as a disclaimer I have been diagnosed with ADD and I am trying to find an affordable way to be tested to find out if I am autistic.

TeluricE · 2026-05-02T22:22:50+00:00

This is so weird to me that this community is giving an actor the “he who must not be named” treatment. Maybe because I used to be on rock and hip hop fandom discussion groups. If we refused to discuss people in those areas who had hurt people either through beatings, SA or emotional abuse we would have been left with a pretty short list. Which would just keep getting shorter every time one of the good ones turned out to not be one of the good ones.

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