Writer: Christos Gage
Penciller: Rebekah Isaacs
Willow’s loyalties to Buffy are questioned when she makes a decision behind the Slayer’s back... Are the besties growing apart? Also unknown to Buffy, Spike has a conversation with an old friend that leads him to question the patterns of his relationship with Buffy.
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It's already avaiable (on cell phones, at least).
Dylan comes to San Francisco to thank Spike for having changed her life and apologises for how she treated him when they first met (she got really scared when he put his game face - Spike: Into the Light). After having found out about vampires and monsters on TV (watching Harmony), she decided to pursue her dream: to make a life as a painter. Spike right away tells her he is in a relationship, to what she answers:
You really think I'm so needy and sad I'd uproot my life just to chase a guy I knew for, like, two days?
Well, thing is that her whole talk seems to be targeted specifically to Spike. She admits she was willing, after all, to drop everything for a guy she barely knew, but then she realized that what she really wanted was a new life, a new job, a new city to live.
Grown adults don't put someone on a pedestal, make them some kind of romantic ideal, and decide they're the key to happiness in life. And once it hit me I was actually considering running off to chase some storybook notion of a prince charming, it wasn't a big leap to the truth.
Basically the same thing Harmony and Angel said before. Or Gage is repeating himself – and saying something I don't think it's true about Spike – or the Scoobies are really being spied on. It's like Angel's words were “stolen” by Harmony and Dylan, and hammed on Spike's head for some purpose.
The fact is that it seemed to work, a little, at least. Spike gets uncomfortable with the whole “how grown adults should behave” issue. Later, Spike and Buffy go to Dylan's first gallery show – and she asks Spike how good is his poetry nowadays. He answers he hasn't working on that anymore.
I think the pattern he may question in his relationship with Buffy it's not the relationship per se – we've seen in the mind walk that he loves her and is very happy – but that being with Buffy, loving her, fighting her fights, cannot be the only thing in his life.
Then we have Willow working with the military. Buffy gets very mad at her because she didn't tell anything about it for a week, and worse, she has already accepted to work with them. Buffy reminds Will about a Slayer who died in her arms in Tibet, killed by the military (and Angel, Buffy...), and Will angrily says she remembers well, but not everything is about her, which sends the Slayer out of the room, slamming the door shut.
And, I'm really suspicious about the “let's keep them apart” scheme that appears to be recurrent (Harmony, Vicky and maybe Dylan attacking the Buffy-Spike front): now it's time to work on Willow.
Lake Stevens, from the Department of Defense, is gay and she doesn't waste any time, hitting on Will while showing her the wonders of their working place and telling that her lover has left her; next, the two of them are in a fancy restaurant, and Stevens are saying that when people become adults, their priorities change and it's difficult to maintain the same friends from when you are young. She says that Willow didn't tell anything to Buffy because she knew wich would be her reaction, that there is a point in life that you have to choose between the life you have and the life you want.
Coming back from the gallery, Spike asks Buffy – who is upset by the whole thing with Willow – if the two of them (her and Will) having different convictions changes things between them, and suggests that Buffy should talk to her friend to sort things out – which she does.
Great issue.
Forgot to say: Spike does the dishes. And feeds the cats. He is totally housebroken.
Penciller: Rebekah Isaacs
Willow’s loyalties to Buffy are questioned when she makes a decision behind the Slayer’s back... Are the besties growing apart? Also unknown to Buffy, Spike has a conversation with an old friend that leads him to question the patterns of his relationship with Buffy.
Source: Wikipedia
It's already avaiable (on cell phones, at least).
Dylan comes to San Francisco to thank Spike for having changed her life and apologises for how she treated him when they first met (she got really scared when he put his game face - Spike: Into the Light). After having found out about vampires and monsters on TV (watching Harmony), she decided to pursue her dream: to make a life as a painter. Spike right away tells her he is in a relationship, to what she answers:
You really think I'm so needy and sad I'd uproot my life just to chase a guy I knew for, like, two days?
Well, thing is that her whole talk seems to be targeted specifically to Spike. She admits she was willing, after all, to drop everything for a guy she barely knew, but then she realized that what she really wanted was a new life, a new job, a new city to live.
Grown adults don't put someone on a pedestal, make them some kind of romantic ideal, and decide they're the key to happiness in life. And once it hit me I was actually considering running off to chase some storybook notion of a prince charming, it wasn't a big leap to the truth.
Basically the same thing Harmony and Angel said before. Or Gage is repeating himself – and saying something I don't think it's true about Spike – or the Scoobies are really being spied on. It's like Angel's words were “stolen” by Harmony and Dylan, and hammed on Spike's head for some purpose.
The fact is that it seemed to work, a little, at least. Spike gets uncomfortable with the whole “how grown adults should behave” issue. Later, Spike and Buffy go to Dylan's first gallery show – and she asks Spike how good is his poetry nowadays. He answers he hasn't working on that anymore.
I think the pattern he may question in his relationship with Buffy it's not the relationship per se – we've seen in the mind walk that he loves her and is very happy – but that being with Buffy, loving her, fighting her fights, cannot be the only thing in his life.
Then we have Willow working with the military. Buffy gets very mad at her because she didn't tell anything about it for a week, and worse, she has already accepted to work with them. Buffy reminds Will about a Slayer who died in her arms in Tibet, killed by the military (and Angel, Buffy...), and Will angrily says she remembers well, but not everything is about her, which sends the Slayer out of the room, slamming the door shut.
And, I'm really suspicious about the “let's keep them apart” scheme that appears to be recurrent (Harmony, Vicky and maybe Dylan attacking the Buffy-Spike front): now it's time to work on Willow.
Lake Stevens, from the Department of Defense, is gay and she doesn't waste any time, hitting on Will while showing her the wonders of their working place and telling that her lover has left her; next, the two of them are in a fancy restaurant, and Stevens are saying that when people become adults, their priorities change and it's difficult to maintain the same friends from when you are young. She says that Willow didn't tell anything to Buffy because she knew wich would be her reaction, that there is a point in life that you have to choose between the life you have and the life you want.
Coming back from the gallery, Spike asks Buffy – who is upset by the whole thing with Willow – if the two of them (her and Will) having different convictions changes things between them, and suggests that Buffy should talk to her friend to sort things out – which she does.
Great issue.
Forgot to say: Spike does the dishes. And feeds the cats. He is totally housebroken.
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