I absolutely agree with your theory. It's certainly what I needed. I was sitting there, both during the discussion in the truck ("pretend like you know me") and during Echo's breakdown, and being deeply, deeply weirded out that I almost cared. I definitely think it must have been because of the Buffy/Spike connection.
I also think that eventually I could have cared about those two. I always thought Paul was a major creeper, but then, I felt the same way about Topher at the outset, and now I fangirl him like crazy. If they'd dropped the "Echo is a special snowflake" bit and let Paul have some character development beyond his creepy white-knight complex, I think they could have (eventually) had an interesting relationship--possibly, as you say, Spuffy-esque.
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I absolutely agree with your theory. It's certainly what I needed. I was sitting there, both during the discussion in the truck ("pretend like you know me") and during Echo's breakdown, and being deeply, deeply weirded out that I almost cared. I definitely think it must have been because of the Buffy/Spike connection.
I also think that eventually I could have cared about those two. I always thought Paul was a major creeper, but then, I felt the same way about Topher at the outset, and now I fangirl him like crazy. If they'd dropped the "Echo is a special snowflake" bit and let Paul have some character development beyond his creepy white-knight complex, I think they could have (eventually) had an interesting relationship--possibly, as you say, Spuffy-esque.
But we'll never know now, will we?