This is another one of those posts that could easily make me rather unpopular. My least favorite romance is, without a doubt, Spuffy. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it refers to the romance between Spike and Buffy. If you remember from previous posts, these are my two favorite characters in the Buffyverse. However, I don't like the two of them together in Season 6. I really wish I could say differently, but, I can't.
Also mentioned in previous posts, I fell in love with Spike after he fell in love with Buffy. He tried so hard to prove himself to her from his epiphany moment in Season 5 through the end of the series. And I really do believe that he loved her that entire time.
But romance simply can't be a one-way street. Buffy was really good for Spike, but a romantic relationship with Spike wasn't good for Buffy. Their relationship was damaging to Buffy from the beginning. In "Once More with Feeling," Buffy sings in "Coda" of her budding relationship with Spike "This isn't real, but I just wanna feel." When Buffy was pulled out of heaven, she became emotionally numb to the world, and the only way she saw out of that was to jump into a relationship that would at least allow her to feel something. Spike was her escape from the deep depression she faced after being resurrected. She used him to avoid the painful healing processes that she needed to work through. But because she knew it wasn't right, she felt worse about herself in the end.
If the romance had happened differently; if it hadn't been so damaging to Buffy, I would have loved it. After making it all the way through the series twice, and knowing that Spike returns in Season 5 of Angel, I've actually come to want Buffy to wind up with Spike rather than Angel, because once a strong friendship formed between Buffy and Spike in Season 7, I think they would be good for each other. However, as their Season 6 romance exists in the series, it is my least favorite romance in BtVS.
I agree! The entire time they were together was almost awkward because you could tell it wasn't real on Buffy's side. Still love both of them though, just not together.
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