Didn't notice that . . . very good eye. (Then again, I was reading it at double speed at midnight after a long day, so the only extraordinary thing I noticed was Nikki's giant Marvin Gaye poster).
SPIKE AND DOWLING ARE SO GREAT TOGETHER! I WOULD TOTES BE OKAY IF BUFFY AND SPIKE HAD A THREESOME WITH HIM.
I'm loving all the happy Dowling feels everyone's having! They can have a threesome in the treehouse Mari wants Dowling, Koh and Andrew to build!
I love that he recognizes how his mother and Buffy are different and would approach child-rearing differently.
Yes. Robin was all together more likable here than he was in the series. He takes Buffy seriously, and offers good advice.
Would Giles have reacted the same way as Crowley (only obviously out of parental love)? I think he would have.
I can't help but think that Giles or her mom were the first people she would have wanted to talk to in this situation. Poor Buffy! No parental figures! I say we get Alaric from The Vampire Diaries and move him to San Francisco!
My heart breaks for Buffy at the end, and I LOVE that she recognizes and admits that the reasons she's not ready to have a baby are because of her ordinary human circumstances- because it means someday down the line, if she felt more stable in her job, home, etc., she could have a baby regardless of the slaying. Obviously mileage varies in fan opinion of Buffy-as-mother, but personally I think she'd be really good at it, and I've never gotten the impression that Buffy would dislike having kids (worry about it because of slaying? Sure, definitely, but not want kids on principle? No; I don't see that at all), so the fact that this issue basically affirms the idea that Buffy is open to the idea of being a mother MAKES ME REALLY HAPPY.
That's very true. It's the Buffy part that is worried about raising a baby, not the slayer. And good point about her wanting children someday down the line - it's a future she couldn't dream of earlier in her life, and now the reality that she has choices now has her in the face.
I do want Buffy to have the baby because of DADDY SPIKE and BABY FIC, but it would be a bold choice to have her go through with the abortion. However, some poster on Buffyforums mentioned that if Buffy regrets her decision and isn't confident and happy after the abortion, women's groups are going to crucify Joss for showing abortion in a negative light. So I don't think the abortion will actually happen. I don't know if it's circumstance or Buffy herself that will decide against it, but somehow the abortion won't happen.
THOSE LAST PAGES THOUGH. I said last night that the comics make it SO DAMN EASY to be a Spike fan, and this scene encapsulates WHY we ship Spuffy - the compassion, understanding, and acceptance that Buffy gets from nowhere else.
And I think if they have the baby, it will be a girl, too.
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Date: 2012-02-08 07:12 pm (UTC)Didn't notice that . . . very good eye. (Then again, I was reading it at double speed at midnight after a long day, so the only extraordinary thing I noticed was Nikki's giant Marvin Gaye poster).
SPIKE AND DOWLING ARE SO GREAT TOGETHER! I WOULD TOTES BE OKAY IF BUFFY AND SPIKE HAD A THREESOME WITH HIM.
I'm loving all the happy Dowling feels everyone's having! They can have a threesome in the treehouse Mari wants Dowling, Koh and Andrew to build!
I love that he recognizes how his mother and Buffy are different and would approach child-rearing differently.
Yes. Robin was all together more likable here than he was in the series. He takes Buffy seriously, and offers good advice.
Would Giles have reacted the same way as Crowley (only obviously out of parental love)? I think he would have.
I can't help but think that Giles or her mom were the first people she would have wanted to talk to in this situation. Poor Buffy! No parental figures! I say we get Alaric from The Vampire Diaries and move him to San Francisco!
My heart breaks for Buffy at the end, and I LOVE that she recognizes and admits that the reasons she's not ready to have a baby are because of her ordinary human circumstances- because it means someday down the line, if she felt more stable in her job, home, etc., she could have a baby regardless of the slaying. Obviously mileage varies in fan opinion of Buffy-as-mother, but personally I think she'd be really good at it, and I've never gotten the impression that Buffy would dislike having kids (worry about it because of slaying? Sure, definitely, but not want kids on principle? No; I don't see that at all), so the fact that this issue basically affirms the idea that Buffy is open to the idea of being a mother MAKES ME REALLY HAPPY.
That's very true. It's the Buffy part that is worried about raising a baby, not the slayer. And good point about her wanting children someday down the line - it's a future she couldn't dream of earlier in her life, and now the reality that she has choices now has her in the face.
I do want Buffy to have the baby because of DADDY SPIKE and BABY FIC, but it would be a bold choice to have her go through with the abortion. However, some poster on Buffyforums mentioned that if Buffy regrets her decision and isn't confident and happy after the abortion, women's groups are going to crucify Joss for showing abortion in a negative light. So I don't think the abortion will actually happen. I don't know if it's circumstance or Buffy herself that will decide against it, but somehow the abortion won't happen.
THOSE LAST PAGES THOUGH. I said last night that the comics make it SO DAMN EASY to be a Spike fan, and this scene encapsulates WHY we ship Spuffy - the compassion, understanding, and acceptance that Buffy gets from nowhere else.
And I think if they have the baby, it will be a girl, too.