I get so frustrated by some shipper attitudes when it comes to BTVS. I don’t want this to come out the wrong way, but it almost feels insulting to a show as legendary and multi-layered as BTVS to reduce it to the same level as any one of those hundred mediocre ‘relationship’ shows, where the fans can never get along due to their loyalty to a couple. The show was above that kind of crap - surely we can be too?
I just can’t watch Dawn and Spike scenes without getting skeeved out. Learning about James’ feelings for Michelle during that time period has forever changed the way I view the relationship between the two characters.
Mod note: Here’s the video where he sings the song “Dangerous” & says it’s about her, and here’s lyrics, if you can’t understand them all.
The world is lucky apocalypses only happened in Sunnydale and L.A.