so being pleasant and pleasing doesn't have anything to do with being genuinely nice?

a bad guy in real life would ingratiate himself with her little sister

I would say she doesn't love any of them - including the immortal.

he seemed normal but with a dark side - but I liked the whole military in the basement thing - I thought Buffy was going to be upgraded to a better life regardless of her relationship with one of their operatives.

he was the same character throughout - a lot of people aren't going to stick it through if they see their diminished importance/control in the future - that's not love, not even friendship.

I think the breakups are realistic in real life including Anya and Xander.

it felt like 300.

I didn't need any romance from Buffy - it wasn't a romantic show other than her sacrifice. The show called out evil especially disguised by slick socializing.

Maybe Buffy and her mother were in some kind of spell that meant they had no social lives while they were in Sunnydale so her main relationship was with the slaying and her mother didn't bring in an outsider to affect her. Maybe the monks were watching her the whole time and casting spells on her to steer her.

he was on that show?

I think I saw that one or some of it - they had Becky's husband from Roseanne who DIED in real life - I really didn't believe that news. Angel just has a gigantic head - literally a Square Head, so blocky ….

I didn't think Anya was a good character at all. She was dirty which pleased guys but I didn't think she was forgiven for being a former demon even before the contretemps.\

that romanticizes him but I think it was important to see the vampire and not the pleasant actor playing him

was Jack Deverow the eyepatch guy - I could not follow the stories but Wednesday was half day and my mother would have it on to learn english but we couldn't follow - she just said Marlena was SO beautiful but that only lasted a few years and then we were latch key kids when my brother started school.

I think like SMG he is less officially successful/employed than less talented people from that show but he always sounded even when he was on the show that he wasn't fantasizing about success.

I think that because of the actor, the audience could not see what Buffy could see- that he was repulsive.

too bad he wasn't just her buddy

I thought that it was essential and planned and the writers didn't make mistakes.

but hes not a bad boy - he's an artsy comic book geek from Seattle whose scared of confrontation and dark alleyways and makes a great buddy if you tell him you're gay.

if Spike was fat and strange like an internet troll on South Park, he would still be cool and first choice to hang out with - that's why Dawn could hang out with him and Clem.