I've just read the IDW board's threads on Asylum and Shadow Puppets, and BL's comments on a possible Spike/Beck pairing caught my eye.
Interestingly, he doesn't think of them that way, because in his eyes Beck is too young for Spike. It's more of a older brother-little sister thing, or even a Spike-Dawn thing (but not a Spike/Dawn thing, I hasten to add). Now that shows one of the comics' flaws for me, since I hadn't really got that impression of her age - I knew she was young, but not that young. If it had been on TV and they'd cast a 17-year old actress in the Beck role, it would have been much more obvious. So now I have to shift my paradigm and re-read Beck's scenes with this new perspective on her age. :)
It's a shame, though, because if they're writing a new canonical season 6 to move the story forward, I'd hate to see Spike mooching around pining for Buffy all year with no resolution. Give him a new, original character to fall in love with. Beck would have been perfect for him - hey, she even killed her own mother, just like Spike did...
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Interestingly, he doesn't think of them that way, because in his eyes Beck is too young for Spike. It's more of a older brother-little sister thing, or even a Spike-Dawn thing (but not a Spike/Dawn thing, I hasten to add). Now that shows one of the comics' flaws for me, since I hadn't really got that impression of her age - I knew she was young, but not that young. If it had been on TV and they'd cast a 17-year old actress in the Beck role, it would have been much more obvious. So now I have to shift my paradigm and re-read Beck's scenes with this new perspective on her age. :)
It's a shame, though, because if they're writing a new canonical season 6 to move the story forward, I'd hate to see Spike mooching around pining for Buffy all year with no resolution. Give him a new, original character to fall in love with. Beck would have been perfect for him - hey, she even killed her own mother, just like Spike did...