Wow. So many great points in here--and I actually never made that connection either--that Buffy gave her death as a gift and got Spike's death as a gift as well. Excellent.
Because the love that buoyed Buffy up at the end of s5, becomes an affront. How can Spike love so much, when she can’t feel anything?
This and the whole paragraph before and after it are some of the best reasoning I've heard for Buffy's behavior toward Spike during the latter half of S6.
One thing that always struck me (as I go off on a bit of a tangent here) is that it's only after Spike gets his soul that Buffy can openly tell him that she'd noticed how he changed--how he "faced the monster" inside of him and "fought back". He was fighting back long before actually getting the soul and I'm sure Buffy knows this, but she can only tell him now because now that he has the soul, her feeling that way is no longer "wrong".
Thanks very much for posting this. Mind if I pimp?
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Because the love that buoyed Buffy up at the end of s5, becomes an affront. How can Spike love so much, when she can’t feel anything?
This and the whole paragraph before and after it are some of the best reasoning I've heard for Buffy's behavior toward Spike during the latter half of S6.
One thing that always struck me (as I go off on a bit of a tangent here) is that it's only after Spike gets his soul that Buffy can openly tell him that she'd noticed how he changed--how he "faced the monster" inside of him and "fought back". He was fighting back long before actually getting the soul and I'm sure Buffy knows this, but she can only tell him now because now that he has the soul, her feeling that way is no longer "wrong".
Thanks very much for posting this. Mind if I pimp?