If "being in the light" is a priority for Spike - then it's on him to find methods and mentors to help him get there, whether Buffy chooses to help him or not.
Absolutely. I like Spike. I like Buffy. I could've found Spuffy delightful. I come to the show with no prejudices toward another pairing and no firm conviction about what Jossverse vampires can and can't be, so there's nothing to interfere with my reception of the storyline. I just...okay, I got a clue from a Joss interview in which he spoke about how touching and fab he found the idea of a man changing himself for a woman. And I guess I just don't find that particularly romantic or original or moving at *all*.# I'd thought I was being shown a guy who depended too much on the opinion and shining pure radiant example of perfect womanhood to inspire him. I thought the fact that he comes from the Victorian era was a comment; he brings all the expectations that era placed upon women as pure ideal holders of society's morals. Sadly, it seems that Joss kind of *bought* those ideas, and never really was trying to subvert them.
This particularly storyline, with Buffy as ideal moral muse and Spike as agent who changes, marked the first time in the entire series that I ever became truly, painfully aware that Buffy is a woman written by a man.
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Absolutely. I like Spike. I like Buffy. I could've found Spuffy delightful. I come to the show with no prejudices toward another pairing and no firm conviction about what Jossverse vampires can and can't be, so there's nothing to interfere with my reception of the storyline. I just...okay, I got a clue from a Joss interview in which he spoke about how touching and fab he found the idea of a man changing himself for a woman. And I guess I just don't find that particularly romantic or original or moving at *all*.# I'd thought I was being shown a guy who depended too much on the opinion and shining pure radiant example of perfect womanhood to inspire him. I thought the fact that he comes from the Victorian era was a comment; he brings all the expectations that era placed upon women as pure ideal holders of society's morals. Sadly, it seems that Joss kind of *bought* those ideas, and never really was trying to subvert them.
This particularly storyline, with Buffy as ideal moral muse and Spike as agent who changes, marked the first time in the entire series that I ever became truly, painfully aware that Buffy is a woman written by a man.