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botiasI often read sympathy for Spike about the way others treat him without any reference as to why the Scoobies or Buffy might reasonably find him disgusting, like the fact that he is a sadist, rapist, liar, stalker, drunkard, thief and murderer.
I often read about how Spike 'fixes' broken people who then abandon him. Spike is seemingly attracted to the broken, yet another less then stellar quality and with predictably poor results, but I've not known him to fix anyone.
I encounter Spuffy fans who are actually just Spike fans. They hate, hate, hate Buffy for abusing Spike, but Spike wants her, therefore he shall have her. I've definitely gone through my own phases where I wanted to feed our heroine to the pretty vampire.
Why am I a Spike fan? Why do I ship Spuffy? Some days I'm not sure. But I have dark suspicions.
I often read about how Spike 'fixes' broken people who then abandon him. Spike is seemingly attracted to the broken, yet another less then stellar quality and with predictably poor results, but I've not known him to fix anyone.
I encounter Spuffy fans who are actually just Spike fans. They hate, hate, hate Buffy for abusing Spike, but Spike wants her, therefore he shall have her. I've definitely gone through my own phases where I wanted to feed our heroine to the pretty vampire.
Why am I a Spike fan? Why do I ship Spuffy? Some days I'm not sure. But I have dark suspicions.
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Date: 2006-05-16 02:04 am (UTC)Actually, most of the time the whole soul/atonement/redemtion thing makes me tired. Apparently it was important to the writers or to Joss at least from time to time. Which is very shallow of me, as the whole reason the shows worked so well is that the heroes were flawed (big time flawed!)and they were working toward being less flawed.