30 Days of Buffy, Day #23

[itsnotmymind]

Day #01: Favourite season
Day #02: Favourite episode
Day #03: Favourite song used in an episode
Day #04: Favourite female character
Day #05: Least favourite female character
Day #06: Favourite male character
Day #07: Least favourite male character
Day #08: Favourite friendship
Day #09: Favourite romance
Day #10: Least favourite season
Day #11: Least favourite romance
Day #12: Least favourite episode
Day #13: Favourite potential slayer
Day #14: Favourite female villain
Day #15: Favourite male villain
Day #16: Episode you like that everyone else hates - Favourite piece of monologue
Day #17: Character you relate to the most
Day #18: Character who didn’t get enough screen time
Day #19: Character you like that everyone else hates
Day #20: Best Spike-centric episode
Day #21: Best Willow-centric episode
Day #22: Best Xander-centric episode
Day #23: Two characters you wanted to get together that never did
Day #24: Favourite example of 90s special effects
Day #25: Favourite Buffyverse saying
Day #26: Favourite Scooby moment
Day #27: Cutest moment
Day #28: Character you love to hate
Day #29: Episode you hate that everyone else loves
Day #30: What you think made Buffy so great


Day #23: Two characters you wanted to get together that never did
I went through a phase where I was a Faith/Spike shipper. This started before they even sort of met in "Who Are You". I'm not sure that they would work as a long-term couple, but they would be hot in the short-term.

Comments

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

But then we really don't see very much at all of Spike and Dru - when they enter the story they've been together for 100 years then she gets well and mostly hangs around Daddy, then she appears in Crush and FFL only in terms of his story. Whereas Buffy and Spike pack in decades of intense history in a five-year span. (Those crazy kids.)

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Dru gets a bit more screen time in AtS, and her relationship with Darla is pretty interesting there.

There was a poll once that ended up with Drusilla ranked above Darla in "favorite vampires" and one fan who was hugely into AtS could not figure out how that was possible. Obviously, it's because Darla got almost no time on BtVS. I think she should get extra credit for just the first 5 minutes of the show, but if you don't watch AtS, you definitely don't get her full effect.

(I know you're not too keen on watching AtS, which is understandable, but I could steer you toward the episodes that might appeal to you, if you think you might want to sample.)

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I actually have been rather keen to see some of the eps like "Darla" that focus on the fanged four - and I've read about Dru basically re-vamping the human Darla and becoming her grandsire's sire. Metaphorical mothers? Yes please! This is right up my alley.

Which means btw that Dru is the only literal or figurative "mother figure" in either series who isn't killed, aside from Willow and Xander's mothers, who only appear in one episode each anyway. (Joyce, Tara, Cordy, Buffy twice, Darla. Am I missing anyone?)