stella {she/they}

Harmony going from being Cordelia’s friend in high school to dating Spike as an adult vampire is so funny because. She went from dating a mean girl who was obsessed with Buffy to dating a mean girl who was obsessed with Buffy

The 180 they do with Spikes character in Season 6 is so infuriating. From taking care of Dawn and despising the Buffy Bot, to the look he gives her as he comes down the stairs. The “every night I save you” speech which is 1,000 times more romantic than anything Angel ever said to Buffy and “you have to go on living so one of us is living”. How do they expect us to not love him? They are building him up as this incredible and compelling romantic lead and then boom, it all gets torn down, just because he can hit her again? I just don’t buy it. Was it really just Joss wanting to punish the fans? Or a misguided writing choice? It’s hard to tell, but it is so jarring and confusing. Don’t get me wrong, I like a lot of the dark stuff between him and Buffy in the season 6 and I enjoy his redemption arc but WHY did they go so hard on showing us his vulnerable romantic side at the back half of 5/beginning of 6 if they didn’t intend for us to be like: “this man would lay down his life for me and my family and yes I would marry him” lol