I've never been that into any of them, to tell the truth. I never cared personally about Buffy with Angel, but I could see that Buffy and Angel would be interested in one another; my interest in the characters led to an interest in the pairing, but I wasn't exactly broken-hearted when that ended, as the ending made perfect sense, too.
And it seems to me that her inability to be a good girlfriend is one of Buffy's little tragedies. I still haven't seen S6 or S7 and I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to remain unspoiled, but I know enough to be aware that Buffy and Spike hitch up, and that makes total sense to me, too. But, again, I don't really care personally, and I can't see the Buffy character ever making a relationship work long-term, especially since she's really only hot for dead boys.
The non-canon pairings really rub me the wrong way though, and I do have strong feelings against them. I absolutely don't see Spike/Xander, say, and I don't understand why people even want to see it (though most of my Buffy-watching friends do seem to love this pairing) because it strikes me as 1) preposterous and 2) unnecessary. It does seem to me that the writers for all the Joss shows are prepared to put characters together as serves the story, and if Spike/Xander had made sense to them, they'd probably have figured out a way to put it onscreen.
As a latecomer to all the Joss Whedon shows, I'm seeing things in a compressed timeframe and essentially without fannish input, so perhaps I'd feel differently if I'd been watching while Buffy aired, and watching Angel from the beginning. As it is, I'm not interested in the pairings at all except as they serve the story/develop the characters. But I still don't think I would have liked Spike with Xander, and only partially because I don't particularly find Nicholas Brendon very sexually appealing ;)
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Date: 2004-04-01 03:21 pm (UTC)And it seems to me that her inability to be a good girlfriend is one of Buffy's little tragedies. I still haven't seen S6 or S7 and I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to remain unspoiled, but I know enough to be aware that Buffy and Spike hitch up, and that makes total sense to me, too. But, again, I don't really care personally, and I can't see the Buffy character ever making a relationship work long-term, especially since she's really only hot for dead boys.
The non-canon pairings really rub me the wrong way though, and I do have strong feelings against them. I absolutely don't see Spike/Xander, say, and I don't understand why people even want to see it (though most of my Buffy-watching friends do seem to love this pairing) because it strikes me as 1) preposterous and 2) unnecessary. It does seem to me that the writers for all the Joss shows are prepared to put characters together as serves the story, and if Spike/Xander had made sense to them, they'd probably have figured out a way to put it onscreen.
As a latecomer to all the Joss Whedon shows, I'm seeing things in a compressed timeframe and essentially without fannish input, so perhaps I'd feel differently if I'd been watching while Buffy aired, and watching Angel from the beginning. As it is, I'm not interested in the pairings at all except as they serve the story/develop the characters. But I still don't think I would have liked Spike with Xander, and only partially because I don't particularly find Nicholas Brendon very sexually appealing ;)