Day 9: Favorite Romance
Buffy and Angel had the epic love. This was teenage girl/vampire romance done right. They loved each other completely and it all came crashing down anyway. And it hurt, but they moved on, grew, healed. And maybe, someday, they'll be able to make it work.
Honestly, I would have expected my answer to this to be different. When I first started typing it was. But every other couple seems to have some fatal flaw, some problem that I couldn't quite get over in declaring them my favorite. They lie and cheat and hurt and manipulate each other. All of them, ultimately, destroyed their own relationships. But the reasons Buffy and Angel couldn't make it work were all circumstantial.
Okay, so Buffy killed Angel. But that was to stop the apocalypse. She had to choose between love and the world, and she chose the world. It was hard, and it was painful, but it was right.
They even managed to move past that little incident and rebuild their relationship. Until Angel realized that a mortal and an immortal can never be together unless one of them switches sides. Since Buffy would never consent to becoming a vampire, they parted ways.
But someday Buffy will be done baking and Angel will become human and they'll get their happily ever after.
Honestly, I would have expected my answer to this to be different. When I first started typing it was. But every other couple seems to have some fatal flaw, some problem that I couldn't quite get over in declaring them my favorite. They lie and cheat and hurt and manipulate each other. All of them, ultimately, destroyed their own relationships. But the reasons Buffy and Angel couldn't make it work were all circumstantial.
Okay, so Buffy killed Angel. But that was to stop the apocalypse. She had to choose between love and the world, and she chose the world. It was hard, and it was painful, but it was right.
They even managed to move past that little incident and rebuild their relationship. Until Angel realized that a mortal and an immortal can never be together unless one of them switches sides. Since Buffy would never consent to becoming a vampire, they parted ways.
But someday Buffy will be done baking and Angel will become human and they'll get their happily ever after.
Many good points are made here.
ReplyDeleteBut I'll still be in my Spuffy corner (which I may occasionally abandon in favor of Willow/Tara).
I do love me some Spuffy. And Willow/Tara is arguably the only relationship that actually worked out (except for that death thing). But looking at the romances as a whole, there were a few questionable decisions on the parts of Willow and Spike.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt that Willow and Spike both made major mistakes - and are deeply flawed. But I think it's the flaws that draw me to those relationships.
ReplyDeleteI mean I like my romance epic and with a happily ever after (I am, after all, Team Edward), but the writers did such a great job developing Spuffy especially over so many seasons. Gah! Now I want to break out my DVDs!