This is why I become quite unreasonably cranky when I read reactions of how "Spuffy" the next issue was.
Dude, we just had an issue that made very, explicitly clear that Buffy has no respect for Spike and the 'verse's creator has no respect for the characters fans. No fantasy crumb thrown an issue later is going to erase that. And I have no expectation of the comics ever lifting even a pinky to do 1/10th the work it would require to build back what they just broke.
The iceberg was hit. The Titanic sunk. Jack is cold fish-bait in the ocean. That ship's story arc is for all intents and purposes done. Spike died saving the ffing world, and Buffy still cannot help herself to stop looking down on him. He's still 'less'. There's nothing left to be said or done after that, not after everything that has gone before. If she can't respect him after his sacrifice, if he's still beneath her after everything they've done... there's nothing left to discuss.
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Date: 2010-12-07 07:26 pm (UTC)Dude, we just had an issue that made very, explicitly clear that Buffy has no respect for Spike and the 'verse's creator has no respect for the characters fans. No fantasy crumb thrown an issue later is going to erase that. And I have no expectation of the comics ever lifting even a pinky to do 1/10th the work it would require to build back what they just broke.
The iceberg was hit. The Titanic sunk. Jack is cold fish-bait in the ocean. That ship's story arc is for all intents and purposes done. Spike died saving the ffing world, and Buffy still cannot help herself to stop looking down on him. He's still 'less'. There's nothing left to be said or done after that, not after everything that has gone before. If she can't respect him after his sacrifice, if he's still beneath her after everything they've done... there's nothing left to discuss.