Yea, she was being a real bitca, but I felt that it was in character. I think she was holding a lot of feelings inside the entire season, and refusing to "own it," and it just kept building and building until the "breakup" wherein she realized that she just has to let it all go and be an adult about her various problems (mainly taking responsibility for her newfound power, trusting her friends, and working on her relationship).
I think its how she took it out on her friends, who were also going through stuff, and how the narrative seemed to painting it like Buffy had some remote sort-of point
I was partly joking, but I would actually disagree... sort of. You're not wrong, but when it comes to comics I think the term 'crossover' pretty specifically denotes a story that weaves in and out of two or more series.
I judge it in terms of the show, not comic-books, so to me its no different than Buffy coming over to AtS to fight that ninja demon in S1. YVMY I guess.
Oh ok, I get that. Hw comes off like a dangerous sociopath that should not ever be trusted. If it wasn't for some stuff surrounding Andrew's idiocy I think I would be just as pissed.
I wouldn't have minded except for the apology (also the fact that Andrew never gets held to account for the 'mistakes' he constantly makes). Overall I understand that its an over reaction, but the guy just bugs me, plus he takes up way too much air-time with his little subplots. I wanted the guy to buzz off.
I don't think it's retconning. I think theres a valid argument to be made that Spike was slowly becoming more "good" throughout the TV show.
Or just doing good things for a selfish reason? That's also entirely valid and doesn't break the lore of the show 'no soul equals evil'.
Spike was forced to change and good things happened to do with his specific mentality, but it didn't make him good otherwise why did he sexually assault Buffy?
I certainly don't hold souled-Spike responsible for
that, otherwise how could I ever want these two as a couple? Why would anyone?
Maybe you're right and its not really a ret-con, but its a message from the show that I fundamentally disagree with since its kinda...destroys the Buffyverse if you think vampires can just 'be good' sometimes for no apparent reason. Anyway, way OT.
I tend to think of this as Buffy saying something mind-fumblingly stupid, a non-uncommon occurrence in the comics.
But I think this is where my hopes for Buffy S10 being anywhere near as GOOD as Angel & Faith S9 finally ended. Obviously that season had a lot of good ideas/writng behind it that had little or nothing to do with Gage.
Hence bitterness that comes from disappointment. If I didn't care- at at this point I still did- then I wouldn't dislike it so much.
I mean, hell, soulless Spike made the conscious decision to get a soul. I can't imagine any other demon ever doing that.
Why not? Other demons also willingly commit suicide for things such as love or honor; we've seen it happen on both shows. Spike ain't unique he's just rare.
Examples: The Three in S1 and James in Angel S3 'Heartthrob'.
Hmm... I guess I found him threatening enough. I honestly had no idea how they were going to beat him until it actually happened. I also liked the twist of D'Hoffryn taking over, behind the scenes
I liked the bait and switch takeover- that was smart writing- which made the ending such a letdown; the depiction of his dimension, everyone smirking and rolling their eyes as he begged for his life. So. Lame.