 Sarah Michelle Gellar spoke about her own personal feelings about Buffy’s relationships with Angel and Spike. She told the BBC: “There’s a part of me that will always believe that Angel is Buffy’s true love. That there will be a piece of her heart that will always be with him for the rest of her life. It doesn’t mean that’s the person that she’s meant to be with eternally. The thing about Buffy and Spike is they understand each other on a level that nobody else understands her. They’ve both lived a hundred lives and I think there’s a connection there that we will see evolve over the next couple of years where she realizes that he really is someone that she can trust, someone that’s a companion to her and someone that really understands her unlike anybody else.” |
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September 4th, 2005 at 4:25 pm
It seemed by the end of the show she changed her mind about the Spike/Buffy relationship, in EW interview about the end of Buffy she was asked about Buffy’s sexual obession with Spike and she said “It wasn’t who Buffy was or why fans loved her” Gellar also mentioned the sex scene on the balcony with Spike in front of all her friend in the Bronze, that she felt it was out of character for Buffy.
It wa reported that Nicholas Brendon told people at several conventions that Gellar went to him and asked him to go with her to Whedon and try and get a Buffy/Xander relationship going in season7,Whedon refused.
September 4th, 2005 at 4:34 pm
“Whedon refused”
Thank you Joss.
That would have been cheesy and stupid, and Season 7 was bad enough. The beauty of the show is its emphasis on the power of friendship. Not that romantic love isn’t important, but it just wouldn’t have been believable between Buffy and Xander.
September 4th, 2005 at 5:37 pm
I don’t know. Maybe it would have been bad, but kinda cool that in the first season he was so into her and in the last season they actually get together.
September 5th, 2005 at 10:20 am
Hmmm, I’m not so sure about a Xander-Buffy relationship. I like the whole cookie dough idea - that Buffy has finally realised she needs to find out more about herself before she gets into yet another relationship.
September 6th, 2005 at 10:57 pm
I just wanted to give a little more time context to SMG’s statement for this trivia item. The BBC interview with her referenced above was during season five, well before the Buffy-Spike relationship took the depressing turn it did. When I first read this item, I was interpreting it after seeing seasons six and seven, with both the rebuilt Buffy-Spike trust and the Buffy-Angel-Spike triangle in End of Days and Chosen fresh in my mind.
April 27th, 2006 at 2:09 am
There’s no way a Buffy/Xander romantic relationship would have been right.. they were much more like brother and sister with Xander always disapproving of her boyfriends and being protective of her… exactly the way a big brother would be. Having them getting together would have been icky on a multitude of levels!
In season 5 I can see SMG thinking the Spike relationship was going in a different direction from the one the writers took, I suspect that she had never had the psychological problems that Buffy experienced when she was brought back, and didn’t understand how that might affect a person’s actions and cause them to behave out of character for a while. Personally I found the relationship very believable.
I also kind of understand Spike’s attempted rape in the context it happened… not so much as a trying to force Buffy to have sex with him for his own gratification, but more trying to get her to admit to the feelings he was convinced she experienced while they were having sex… “I know you feel like I do. You don’t have to hide it anymore” then “Let it go… Let yourself love me… Buffy, Buffy…” and “I know you felt it… When I was inside you…” and “I’m going to make you feel it”.
When she thought about it later she must have realised that the way she had treated him had contributed to his confusion and desperation, and that made it easier for her to forgive him when he came back with his new soul and made that moving speech in the church… telling hr that he had sought out his soul for her so he could become “The kind of man who would never… a kind of man”, and then showed such obvious contrition in that “I hurt the girl” speech in the school basement…
June 25th, 2006 at 3:24 am
Actually, to clarify on a previous comment, both Brendon and Gellar went to Joss to see if he was going to go with B/X since it was believed that was always his intention, so they could prepare. Joss said that no, Buffy always want the unattainable. There was no insistence from the actors.