S8 complaint based on discussion of an issue I have not yet read

[snick_backup]

The idea that Buffy is still hung up on Angel, after all the clear not-rightness we saw at the end of BtVS S4, her several relationships since then, and particularly the Spuffy relationship I thought I saw in S7 (even though I didn't care for it much), suggests a great deal of stupidity on the part of either the writers or Buffy.

Is the damage he caused still having a major effect on her? Oh, yeah. But I'd rather thought she'd gotten over her dreamy-eyed first love stage. Then again, I also thought the tongueless kiss and the cookie dough speech was shameless audience pandering, not serious characterization. It seems I was mistaken.

Comments

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

You and me both. Sigh.

[snickfic]

*sighs with you*

[diebirchen.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah!

[snickfic]

Grr. Grump.

[diebirchen.livejournal.com]

Yup! What you said!

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Well, you know how I feel. *joins the chorus of sighs*

[snickfic]

How do you feel? Has the week improved? I've been praying for you.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Work has gotten better, but I don't know that I have. I cried myself to sleep last night over absolutely nothing yet again. I'm hoping this is just a fleeting thing and not a sign of another real downturn.

But I can't tell you how much your prayers mean to me. I always remember you in my own, and knowing that you're out there praying for me as well means so very, very much.

[angearia.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I've been thinking of you today and missing you online. Maybe you're over on Tumblr? I haven't been on there at all today.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I just got home, actually, so I haven't been online all day. And now I need to write. WRITE LAUREN WRITE! *cracks whip at self*

[snickfic]

Ugh. I'm so sorry. If it's any comfort, I've been slogging through a bad mood for three or four days now. I suspect it's related to the position of the moon - maybe yours is, too?

knowing that you're out there praying for me as well means so very, very much.

Ditto.

Here's hoping the writing is going okay, despite it all. *fingers crossed*

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Haven't got my issue yet, but I saw Maggie's discussion and it sounds pretty bad for Buffy's common sense and integrity. I don't know why Joss et al can't understand that one can have strong feelings for a former love without turning into a complete idiot every time he appears...

[snickfic]

Yes. I am mystified as well.

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

You will get no argument from me on this. It's just...weird. Not hardly complimentary to Buffy. I don't get it.

[snickfic]

Yeah. It's so bizarre I have a hard time being offended by it. It's just another reminder that, yeah, I don't really care about these comic thingies.