it's an interesting parallel to "I Will Remember You" All Buffy wanted was a normal boyfriend
What I think is so interesting about IWRY is that Buffy was very close to having a normal boyfriend with Riley, but she was willing to forget about him to be a normal girlfriend with Angel. Not that I blame her, but that always made me question the depth of her feelings for Riley.
I think he was ridiculous when it came to his expectations about Buffy where Joyce's illness (and Buffy's feelings about it) were concerned.
I agree with this but I also think that, objectively, her reaction told him something about how Buffy felt about him. I think he should have let her react how she wanted, but when the woman you love isn't leaning on you, that says something about your relationship.
Even when the woman is a superhero, and not one to lean?
It's not like he started dating a leaner, or a woman that promised to lean and reneged.
Some women don't lean, and still get loved.
Ask Wash.
Even when the woman is a superhero, and not one to lean?
I guess that's part of loving a slayer, but she was a leaner - she leaned on Angel, and she leaned on her friends. That's part of why she was different from all the other slayers.
re: Zoe. I see Buffy as more of a leaner than Zoe.
ETA: Clarity
Buffy had walls, definitely. But I do think the Slayer Problem was something that Riley mostly created in his own mind, and that then became the situation they had to deal with. Life being life, Buffy had more urgent things on her plate just then and didn't have the [time/emotional energy/insight] to make that a priority.
Not that I blame her, but that always made me question the depth of her feelings for Riley.
well, there are people you love, and there is your soulmate. It's a different level of commitment. Buffy always had a hard time leaning, strong women often do.
Are you people still talking about Buffy?
God.
That was so two years ago.
Hey, I just learned that Angel was a vampire!!!!
Aahccck! Whitefont spoilers, PLEASE!
