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womanaction · 2 years ago

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Oh 100% I didn’t mean to imply she didn’t have feelings for him on that level but rather that her other actions didn’t show that she would label him as a “boyfriend” and yet we see immediately in season 7 her thinking back on him as such (predating the soul info) despite the complicated nature of their relationship.

I’m also not sure that “Entropy” reflects any rules of their relationship as much as underlying feelings - she’s hurt because she has feelings for him, just as in Hell’s Bells she’s hurt when he brings a date, but by this point they have “broken up” so he’s not going against any terms of an active relationship. I agree it hurts her because she does have feelings for him, but not because he is her boyfriend (even if he WAS her boyfriend, as she seems to accept later, he isn’t by that point in the narrative).

I’m interested in what you’re referring to in season 6 though, can you clarify?

also it’s weird when people in fandom are so insistent that Buffy and Spike weren’t like “dating” or “together” and like I get that from the text of season 6 but she literally starts out season 7 by talking about dating dead guys plural and how THEY were hotties and throughout s7 she talks about him as her last relationship so. idk if we think of this as a soft retcon or just how buffy thinks about relationships

#didn’t expect this to get traction so sorry if original post was unclear #I’m firmly on team buffy loved spike in s6 #but there’s a difference between the questions of if you love someone vs what kind of relationship you’re in with them at that time #and I think she changes her mind a lot on this fact #I think in older and farther away she definitely acts like he is her secret boyfriend who will eventually be revealed but this is #not always consistent with her thoughts and feelings across episodes #meanwhile in s7 from what I remember and am rewatching she’s VERY consistent #so I was pondering to what degree we should read this as Buffy changing her mind after their relationship ends on what it meant at the time #vs more of a reevaluation in the text I guess #from non spuffy shippers there seems to be a lot of pushback to the idea of them as together in s6 #and I don’t think s6 really contradicts this much even as it establishes that they have feelings for each other #she treats their every liaison as a one time thing even though they both recognize that as untrue #so while they’re functionally together I don’t think there’s a point where she’d even admit that to herself #vs after their relationship and after he’s committed something so heinous to her she’s still very open that they were together #I just think it’s interesting #btvs #otp: mortal enemies

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