I am acutely curious about these breadcrumbs also.
though we both agree that Buffy's totally lying. ;)
;D
it started out deeply creepy (well, kinda like Buffy and Spike)
BAHA. And yet, Ballard/Echo (and Claire/Boyd for that matter too) pings for me more on the creep meter. I have the feeling it has something to do with the fact that while one of them was about a male falling for an empowered female, the other was... not. That said, I can appreciate that Echo and Paul did forge an honest connection in the period they were all banded together and fighting for their lives. Still. S/B pwns you all. /crazy shipper
I don't know about a *breakdown*, but I have no doubt Buffy sobbed herself hoarse in private. Dawn would probably be the only one who would have the slightest idea of her loss. I just don't see anybody else getting it. Buffy's feelings for Spike were always so intensely *private*, which made them all the more tragic (as in, actually tragic, not overwrought ~ our love is so EPIC and DOOMED ~ melodramatic). And really, that was the crux of their connection, wasn't it. "I can be alone with you here"? (Makes the sentiment of being "always alone" that much more significant, really.) Which is, in essence, why I LOVE IT TO PIECES, and why it rips my cold dead heart in two, because I just have this certainty that Buffy's not ever going to find that again, you know? And you know me, I am so not the romantic in the room, but I don't think you need to be to recognise that after everything she went through with Spike (and yes, I am pulling out a VM quote) - spanning years and continents, lives ruined and bloodshed... any subsequent relationship is going to seem a tad lightweight ;)
Geez, get dramatic and rambly, why don't I. See what your post made me do? *shakes head* *returns to corner*
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though we both agree that Buffy's totally lying. ;)
;D
it started out deeply creepy (well, kinda like Buffy and Spike)
BAHA. And yet, Ballard/Echo (and Claire/Boyd for that matter too) pings for me more on the creep meter. I have the feeling it has something to do with the fact that while one of them was about a male falling for an empowered female, the other was... not.
That said, I can appreciate that Echo and Paul did forge an honest connection in the period they were all banded together and fighting for their lives.
Still. S/B pwns you all. /crazy shipper
I don't know about a *breakdown*, but I have no doubt Buffy sobbed herself hoarse in private. Dawn would probably be the only one who would have the slightest idea of her loss. I just don't see anybody else getting it. Buffy's feelings for Spike were always so intensely *private*, which made them all the more tragic (as in, actually tragic, not overwrought ~ our love is so EPIC and DOOMED ~ melodramatic). And really, that was the crux of their connection, wasn't it. "I can be alone with you here"? (Makes the sentiment of being "always alone" that much more significant, really.) Which is, in essence, why I LOVE IT TO PIECES, and why it rips my cold dead heart in two, because I just have this certainty that Buffy's not ever going to find that again, you know? And you know me, I am so not the romantic in the room, but I don't think you need to be to recognise that after everything she went through with Spike (and yes, I am pulling out a VM quote) - spanning years and continents, lives ruined and bloodshed... any subsequent relationship is going to seem a tad lightweight ;)
Geez, get dramatic and rambly, why don't I. See what your post made me do? *shakes head* *returns to corner*