Issue:

    Alright I made a campaign a few weeks ago hoping to get people behind a Buffy movie.  I have been very pleased with the amount of new members and their comments.  In thinking about a possible new movie one question keeps coming up.  Should Buffy ultimately end up with Angel or Spike?

Belief:

            I believe that if they do make a Whedonverse movie to tie up the loose ends of the plots of Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, that Buffy should choose once and for all which vampire she loves the most.

            For anyone who isn’t familiar with this love triangle here is the most objective synopsis I can give.  Angel was Buffy’s first love.  He was her guide and protector in Sunny Dale until they had sex and he lost his soul turning into the evil Angelus.  Then he tormented her for a season until he got his soul back just before she had to send him too hell.  He, of course, got out of hell but had to bail because he got his own series set in Los Angeles.  In one of the early episodes of Angel he gets some demon blood in a cut on his hand and is turned human.  Buffy happens to be in Los Angeles at the time and it looks like they can now be together because his curse is truly lifted.  Unfortunately, he is a champion that knows his job is not yet complete so he goes to an oracle that reverses time and Buffy has no knowledge of the one amazing day they had together.   In one of the final episodes of Buffy she does insinuate that they could be together someday.

            Spike arrived on the scene in the season two premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  He looks and talks like Billy Idol and has very heavy influence from Luke Perry’s character, Pike, in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie starring Kristi Swanson.  His character was actually on the show much longer than Angel’s though evil for much longer.  In season 4 the military puts a chip in his head that shocks him if he tries to hurt humans.  He then discovers he can hurt Demons and becomes a pseudo good guy at the same time falling in love with Buffy even though he kind hates her too.  At the end of season six he goes to some sort of demon shaman and goes through trials and torture to get his soul back.  He and Buffy also had tons of sex because Spike was all about her and she was kind of tweaked out on account of the fact that she died went to heaven and was ripped back to earth by a magic spell.  But that is another story.

            So Whedon tried to tie this up by having Spike and Angel go to Italy only to find that Buffy was dating some immortal guy called “the immortal.”  I personally thought this was lame because you don’t see Buffy.  I think Sara Michelle Gellar had other obligations at the time.

            So I think the fans should decide.  If you think Buffy should be with her first love and you still remember that song that they used to play when they were together then vote for the Vampire with a soul who helps the helpless Angel.  If you feel that Buffy and Spike’s relationship was better developed in the plot and that he was more true to her because he sought out his soul and ended up later sacrificing himself to save the world then vote for the witty British rock star Vamp William the Bloody, aka Spike.