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[butterfly]

So, I'm watching my BtVS tapes to make sure that I have the right labels and...

I just saw the end of Lovers Walk and my heart broke into a thousand tiny pieces. Xander and Willow screw up so badly and then you have Buffy and Angel...

Buffy: "What I want from you, I can never have. You don't need me to take care of you anymore, so I'm going to go."
Angel: "I don't accept that."
Buffy: "You have to."
Angel: "There's got to be some way we can still see each other ."
Buffy: "There is. Tell me that you don't love me."

And, of course, he can't. So she walks away.

*sniffles as her OMG! Tragic Love! button is hit*

It didn't hurt like that the first time around. I wasn't at all invested in Angel's character, so I didn't care much. Enough.

ETA: OMG! The mood icon is so appropriate!

Comments

[spacedoutlooney.livejournal.com]

What's interesting is that she's not taking responsibility for her own feelings either time.

If she could control her own feelings, then it shouldn't matter what the other person felt.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

I don't think that she's failing to take responsibility for her feelings in Lovers Walk -- she's admitting that, yes, she loves Angel in a way more than 'friends' way. Because of that, she's decided that they shouldn't play at being friends. Angel wants to know if there is any way that they can still see each other. And Buffy's saying no. Because she knows that Angel loves her and that he's not going to lie to her about it.

In As You Were, I don't think that she's doing that either. She wants to believe that someone loves her, even if it isn't who she wants, even if it isn't someone she loves back. She knows that Spike does love her. I think that AYW may be the episode where she finally does figure that part out. That he really does love her, in his own fucked up way.

[spacedoutlooney.livejournal.com]

Actually, now that I think about it, it might be more appropriate to compare Lovers Walk ("tell me you don't love me") and Entropy ("you have to move on").