I don't think I've blindspotted -- well, maybe Lindsey. But when my efforts to keep enjoying them as I like them most, I just shrug and say "Well, Spike up through season 4." I liked the bad stuff about the characters I like the most.
ita is me in this regard. Willow and Angel were my favorite characters, but I was fully aware of their (demonstrated) potential for ruthless cruelty and morally questionable decisions, and enjoyed watching them make mistakes. I suppose if one expanded the definition of blindspot to include characters that one completely does not get the appeal of, Andrew would be mine.
Spike and DisCordy were my big anti-blindspot characters, though a huge chunk of fandom was with me on the latter.
First with the cruciamentum and second with siccing Principal Hottie on Spike.
I forgive the cruciementarium (or whatever it was) because he did the right thing in the end. And it made Buffy realize just how much she meant to Giles. "Your feelings for your charge are as a father's love for a child." I remember how Buffy's eyes got large as she realized that Giles had compromised everything that he (had) believed in for her. *sniff*
The Spike thing was . . . ill advised.
What blind spot?
See, the Spike thing, to me, was after the "Who is this and what have they done with Giles"-ness. I just don't get the line that got him to there (as opposed to, say, Willow, who had an arc that made sense in where she ended up)
Connor, however, would have been just fine had he been given soup and a hug instead of something real. Damn it.
Which is sort of born out by my very much liking Normal!Well-Adjusted!Connor, as one imagines N!W-A!Connor got plenty of soup and hugs growing up.
Psh. Souled Champion Vampires grow on trees. Can always get another one in a pinch.
BWAHAHAHA!
See, the Spike thing, to me, was after the "Who is this and what have they done with Giles"-ness. I just don't get the line that got him to there
I was really starting to buy into the the "It's actually Ethan" line after just a couple of episodes with Pod!Giles.
See, the Spike thing, to me, was after the "Who is this and what have they done with Giles"-ness. I just don't get the line that got him to there
And yet...it was consistant with his characterization in "Helpless." Also the same Giles that killed Ben. Same Watcher training that had Wesley sending peons to their death in Pylea.
I'm racking my brains, and I have no idea what "the Spike thing" was. Someone refresh me? What season are we talking about?
Decoying Buffy while in colusion with Principal Wood for the latter to set a trap for Spike?
I'm racking my brains, and I have no idea what "the Spike thing" was.
The one Abi and I are talking about is actually about Giles' colluding with Principal McHottie to kill Spike.
Oh right...there's so much of S7 I don't remember. Probably for the best.
Hec, that isn't the defining incident of my PodGiles characterization. It's just that it happens after it, and so, doesn't really fall under the same rules, to me.
