*nodding universal agreement* The parallels were spectacular, as it happened, and I loved what they brought out in each character. Willow is seeing Buffy in Dean too (Buffy echoes this by seeing Xander, who is Buffy's heart) and Buffy is charmed by Sam's Willow-like nerdish qualities in a way that could have been 99% platonic in other circumstances -- I'm imagining how she might have reacted to Fred -- but given his looks, isn't.
Thank you for the link to that essay! I'm an appreciative reader of Crusie's books and her blog, and knew she was a fan, but somehow missed the anthology it's from. It's delicious (and makes me recalculate how much she knows about the dark.) I loved the conditional love thing, especially after months of "Delilah" on the radio. "Now let's talk about you. It's what you do to me."
And yeah, the excruciating thing for me about Buffy and Spike in S6 was how close they came to a real relationship. It's not a universal truth that lovers can't be friends; it's the particulars of their histories and their natures that defeat them. In S7 they don't just reconcile; he gets the chance again to give her just what she needs, and this time he manages it.
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Date: 2008-01-20 12:14 am (UTC)Thank you for the link to that essay! I'm an appreciative reader of Crusie's books and her blog, and knew she was a fan, but somehow missed the anthology it's from. It's delicious (and makes me recalculate how much she knows about the dark.) I loved the conditional love thing, especially after months of "Delilah" on the radio. "Now let's talk about you. It's what you do to me."
And yeah, the excruciating thing for me about Buffy and Spike in S6 was how close they came to a real relationship. It's not a universal truth that lovers can't be friends; it's the particulars of their histories and their natures that defeat them. In S7 they don't just reconcile; he gets the chance again to give her just what she needs, and this time he manages it.