[ SECRET POST #3635 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3635 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I never got the Riley hate. I guess because none of my friends were hard core shippers of any pairing and Riley wasn't standing in the way of my own ship, so he never bothered me that much. He was a little bland for my own personal tastes but I totally got why she was into him.

[(Anonymous)]

The Riley hate is a little OTT and it may relate to shipping and that people found his introductory season and him as a character boring. I mainly liked him for Buffy because at the beginning, it didn't come with the host of issues her and Angel had (like a several hundred year old vampire hitting on a teenager, and that's not even getting into the fact that he loses his soul when they have sex and has killed a bunch of people.)

Buffy needs someone who is able to keep up with her but also has hints of normal to him. Riley could have worked or someone similar.

[philstar22]

The reason I didn't like Riley was because he had issues with her as a woman being stronger than him. He needed her to be feminine and to "need him" when she had to be an adult and care for Dawn and needed to be strong. He didn't really care about what she actually needed so much as he cared about his own macho pride.


For the record, I liked him in season 4. One of the few things in season 4 I liked. But he started to bug me in season 5.

[(Anonymous)]

Well yeah, that's where I kind of consider the writers to have ruined him because I felt like they were essentially coming up with reasons to destroy the relationship.

It's why I'm not completely Team Riley but still considered it better at the beginning then Angel or Spike.

[(Anonymous)]

Fucking godamn Riley for wanting to comfort and support Buffy during a difficult time. That asshole.

[(Anonymous)]

If you actually care about someone and want to comfort and support them, you do what they need you to do. Not what you think they should need you to do. So yeah, Season 5 Riley was kind of an asshole, for that and many other reasons.

[(Anonymous)]

I understand why Buffy liked him (before she knew his Secret™), but something about the way he acted about her being strong (better in a fight) etc than him just rubbed me the wrong way.


I love Spike, and didn't hate the Buffy/Spike relationship as terrible as it was for both of them, but I ultimately feel like no guy on the show was 100% right for her.

[(Anonymous)]

The one thing I liked about Spike is that he loved Buffy's strength and power. In the earlier characterization Spike exulted in it because he enjoyed the challenge of fighting an equal; when he developed his crush/got woobified, he loved her strength because it was one more thing he could be starry-eyed about. But at least he never seemed to resent it a la the [late] characterization of Riley.

[(Anonymous)]

riley was fine until he started resenting buffy for not needing him enough. when he got mad at her for breaking down about her sick mother and not calling him/telling him after the fact he was dead to me.