Coming in way late on this: Wow, it's been a while since I've read such a thoroughly moronic anti-Spike rant. It never ceases to amaze me how people can so fundamentally misunderstand what Joss and the other writers intended, or for that matter, how they can spend more time hating and ripping apart a character they don't like than enjoy the ones they do like.

Being a comic/movie/TV genre nerd, I don't often say this. but whoever wrote that'un? Get a life!

(OH, and B/A was not the adult ship. It was the 'sweet sixteen' flowery romantic teenage ship. Which is fine if that's what some people are into more, but to call that the 'adult' one? Just funny)