Re: clinging Andrew

posted by [identity profile] gobi-rex.livejournal.com at 01:11am on 01/02/2004
Andrew and Spike have a great dynamic on screen. And not in a slash-y way.

Have you seen NanDibble's episode reviews?
http://www.soulfulspike.com/nanreviews/nanangel_5-11.html

For example, she argues:
It's been suggested that Andrew follows Spike because he thinks Spike has the best chance of locating Dana. However, were that the case, he?d have had his pack of Slayers on call or close at hand, to take Dana down as soon as Spike led Andrew to her. So that's not Andrew's motivation here. He's so blatantly delighted to find Spike unalive, going to hug him for quite a while--despite being in a meeting where it's important to Andrew to seem adult, professional, the expert from the new Council of Watchers, that even Spike hasn't the heart to push him away or snark at him--that neither Andrew's sincerity nor the depth of his geeklove hero worship can't be doubted. He follows Spike because he wants to "hang" with him, chat with him, be (even for a little while) the Robin to Spike?s Batman, the Sam to his Gandalf.

It's nice to see Spike interact with somebody in a more or less 'honest' manner... snarky Spike is fun, but personally it's getting a little annoying.
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Re: clinging Andrew

posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 10:42pm on 01/02/2004
Spike seems to get snarky when he feels he has to be "on guard" or on the defensive. He doesn't tend to do that with Fred, and it seems to be a measure of his "comfort" (or at least his sense that he doesn't have to guard his feelings or put on a false front too much) in front of Andrew that he was so careful of Andrew's feelings and not trying to push Andrew away in any serious way.
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Re: clinging Andrew

posted by [identity profile] gobi-rex.livejournal.com at 07:34pm on 02/02/2004
Spike seems to get snarky when he feels he has to be "on guard" or on the defensive

Exactly.
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