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⌈ Secret Post #3333 ⌋

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[iCarly]

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[Sublunary: --enter the moonlight--]

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[Tokusatsu (Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Ultraman)]

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[Harry Potter + Pokemon, Wonder Woman, Anne of Green Gables, Looney Tunes]

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[Kyuuketsuki Hime Miyu]

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[Usagi Drop]

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[Ranma 1/2]

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I have a soft spot for Spuffy, maybe because it does seem so much more messy and real? Plus, the two characters just seemed to spark together. I wish the writers had actually been able to handle it better; half the time, they seemed confused about what they were writing. I remember they actually had to come out and say, no, they weren't (deliberately) portraying Buffy as abusive.

I was probably predisposed to Spuffy since I started watching in Season 6 (while eventually watching DVDs of previous seasons at the same time), so the first time I saw Spike and Buffy interacting was when Spike saw Buffy, and realized she was back, and that scene and the look on his face just burned into my brain.

They definitely had a spark to them! And I think that's the thing with Buffy, is you want her to have that spark, and she was connecting with him at a time she had no other outward emotions.

I think that's the biggest problem, that they didn't realize what they were writing.

Season 6 was always my favorite and for a while I only owned seasons 1 and 6. So there I am, 14 and impressionable and watching nothing but Spuffy, so of course I grew attached.

I think I like season 6 to a point - but after Tabula Rasa, I felt that it really did veer off the road into nasty territory. And again, I am fine with writers venturing into that territory when those are the issues they want to explore, except in this case, it seemed the Buffy writers were always clarifying and essentially saying "no, you don't understand - you're not watching the show properly". Kind of the Anne Rice "you're interrogating the text from the wrong perspective" argument.

I feel like I would have liked Season 6 better than I do if I hadn't been involved in online fandom and aware of what was going on behind the scene with the writers.

But, nevertheless, I still love my Spuffy, as messy and problematic and difficult as it is. It was one of my first great fandom loves, so I guess that sticks.
:)

Yeah, I'm all for 'what the author says is canon' but if you have to clarify every single thing, you are maybe not writing very well. And season 6 kind of felt like 'HOW MANY BAD THINGS CAN WE WRITE ABOUT? ALL OF THEM? LETS DO ALL OF THEM!'

I was way too young for the fandom, and also too young to properly understand abuse (I was 10 when it ended and had grown up with the show, so I was mostly watching season 6 between the ages of 9 and 15ish) so I had no interaction with the authors and no interaction with people going 'ewwwww' so my love just kept growing.

Yeah, your first ships stick with you!

Oh, yeah, starting with Season 6 would be a little different than having been a BtVS fan before.

AYRT, yes, it was a little jarring seeing slicked-back-hair Evil Spike juxtaposed with Season 6 Spike.

That's actually something I've wondered about before, how much my jumping on point will affect which characters I sympathize with, or whether or not I would have come to sympathize with them anyway. I suspect I was always going to like Spike, because he is snarky and funny. But definitely knowing he was going to love Buffy gave me a different perspective to watch for as the series went along.

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