Re: OT Marti Previews Season 7 *Spoilers*

[Tater <tater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:02 AM 6/1/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Referencing, again, the David Fury Succubus club interview spoiler that
>I mentioned 
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>Tater, I too had a thought of Willow/Spike (which would please a certain
>section of fandom, it's true). It's the hetero version of Willow/Faith,
>with the two fallen children healing each other. (Difference being, W/F
>have the history that would make the 'ship more interesting, but they
>probably can't get Dushku for enough eps to do it.)
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>However, I'm thinking no, for two reasons:
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>? David Fury said Willow was still gay. For some reason, I can see
>him lying to hide a W/X thing, which (in the story) would be
>reconnecting with your true love regardless of gender, but not lying to
>hide a hookup with a new man (or whatever Spike is, now) in her life.
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>? All that stuff that Spike said to the cheesy Lurking Demon about
>wanting to change so he could "take care of [Buffy]", "give her what's
>coming to her" and "give her what she deserves", all that seems to
>pretty well foreshadow that, Spuffy 2.0 or not, Spike's story is pretty
>well tied up with Buffy's. His soul was returned so that he can affect
>her life. Dating Willow seems rather OT, there.
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>Also if Marti's reference to Willow's new love interest as "coming on"
>later in the season means "someone not yet in the permanent cast", that
>would DQ Spike as well. But Cas pointed out that Marti sometimes trips
>over her tongue in these interviews, and she might simply have meant
>"coming up" later in the season.
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>(Oh, and as to Kirayoshi's jibe at us for dissecting the interview so, I
>would say that's where the fun is. Looking for clues in these teasers
>is much more interesting than being the first on your block to know
>Warren kills Tara; I find specific Spoilers incredibly dull. JMO.)
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>So I can see the Willow/Spike danger, but is it coming? I don't think
>so.
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>Hmm, there's a poll question: If you're someone who doesn't like either
>Willow/Spike or Buffy/Spike (which not everybody is, even here, of
>course) and you had to choose between the two, which one could you live
>with better? If one of our girls absolutely has to be sacrificed on the
>altar of James Marsters and his sunken cheeks, whose suffering would be
>more bearable?
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>Anyway, thanks for the input.
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>Dan


Dan, I really hope you're right and there is no Willow/Spike coming.
However, Marti was being all enthusiastic about Willow, and about Spike, and
for some reason, possibly this entire crappy season, Marti being
enthusiastic strikes terror in my heart.

And I don't mind Buffy/Spike, if Buffy pulls her head out of her ass and
admits to being with him by her own choice, not out of some weird weakness.
There was a time when the two had good chemistry between them.
Willow/Spike, have nothing in common to build a relationship on, and no real
chemistry.


tater (Vegetables of the world unite!)