Buffy: I killed Angel! Do you even remember that? I would have given up everything I had to be with- I loved him more than I will ever love anything in this life. And I put a sword through his heart because I had to.
Yo, I may not know much about love but when Buffy says that she loved Angel
more than anything she will ever love in this life - I believe her and I certainly think that she knows better than
@gite63
And I'm sure that Buffy meant exactly what she said, and believed it absolutely. At the time that she said it.
How can anyone as young and relatively inexperienced as Buffy is at that point actually know what her feelings will be in the years to come? Then it was Angel, now, apparently, it's Spike, and who will it be this time next year? Buffy is a human being first, and a Slayer second. Neither one of those things gives her the ability to see into the future.
That Buffy didn't love Angel is utter and total fanon. It's almost straight up Bangel-hate actually.
Because some people (small, immature people) can't enjoy something nice without having to try and tear down something else to make their ship look better.
I can buy that Buffy doesn't love Angel now, maybe- that's certainly possible after Twilight, but never? Delusion.
Absolutely, Buffy loved, and always will love, Angel. That's what first loves are. They are the yard stick by which we measure all of the loves that come after her time with Angel. And there have been loves since Angel, and almost certainly will be more, perhaps even greater, loves in the future.
That in no way "tears down" anything whatsoever that Buffy shared with Angel. If anything, it reaffirms it and defines it as probably the single most important love in her life. Without a first love, there can never be a second love, or a third, or a twenty fifth love. True delusion would be trying to say that Buffy loves Angel, only Angel, and will never love anyone else again.
If what we saw in the preview of this issue proves nothing else, it proves that Spike's feelings for Buffy are sincere. Buffy is inside his mind, actually feeling what he feels, not just hearing the words spoken. This is the first time that she, or we, have had that kind of affirmation of anyone's feelings for anyone else in the entire Buffyverse. That in no way denies that Angel's feelings aren't just as real and sincere. It merely affirms that Spike does, actually, love Buffy, and, if her words are to believed (we're not inside her mind here, so we only have her word, and a few tears to go by) she also loves him. That's for now, with no guarantee what the future brings.
That's enough for me.
