Absolutely yes. I am the spuffiest spuffy in spuffydom, but if you told me that Spike needed to save her, I would laugh right in your face. Because you were not watching the same show, or the same Buffy. Or the same Spike, for that matter. And that's OK. I wouldn't even say that a S.O. could heal her, but....give her the strength she needs to heal herself? Yes, I could see that. that's what love is for. And that's Spuffy, at least to me.
After Angel/Twilight, I don't think that Buffy would want someone to save her, either. Which was probably the excruciatingly painful, clumsily executed point of all of this. If Buffy does manage to put herself back together after all of this, *by herself* -- that would be something. I just don't know if I can stick around through the actual storytelling to see it. Too much collateral damage to characters that I love.
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Date: 2010-12-06 12:18 pm (UTC)After Angel/Twilight, I don't think that Buffy would want someone to save her, either. Which was probably the excruciatingly painful, clumsily executed point of all of this. If Buffy does manage to put herself back together after all of this, *by herself* -- that would be something. I just don't know if I can stick around through the actual storytelling to see it. Too much collateral damage to characters that I love.