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   permanent stay of execution - Spike was only supposed to last a few   
   episodes. It’s not that Whedon doesn’t think that Buffy and Angel are a   
   love   
   story “for the ages.” However, Whedon finds Spike a bit more “evolved”   
   and   
   feels that he was the better choice for Buffy.   
      
   Whedon also stated that he recognizes it’s a bit like “like saying   
   Juliet’s   
   going to be so happy with Benvolio.” That may be true, but Romeo and Juliet   
   was a tragedy, after all.   
      
      
   4 SHE TRUSTED HIM NOT TO TAKE HER LIFE BUT BARELY KNEW HIM   
      
   Buffy couldn’t really see straight when it came to Angel. Anyone who’s ever   
   been in love knows what that’s like. However, her pattern of losing all   
   reason where he’s concerned stretches back to the very beginning. After the   
   season 1 reveal that Angel was a vampire, he admitted to Buffy that he took   
   the lives of his own family. On top of that, Darla had framed him for   
   attacking Joyce.   
      
   What about any of that caused Buffy to drop her crossbow and walk toward him   
   unarmed? Sure, he had told her about the Romani curse and happened to be a   
   total dreamboat. No one’s saying she should’ve loosed an arrow right then.   
   However, the two had shared a single kiss and barely knew each other, so   
   perhaps that wasn’t the best time to take such a leap of faith.   
      
      
   3 HE HAS TERRIBLE TIMING   
      
   Putting aside his incredibly romantic prom entrance, Angel doesn’t have   
   great timing. Perhaps breaking up with Buffy right before the dance that   
   mattered so much to her wasn’t the right call, to begin with. Angel might   
   not really get the prom, but he understands Buffy’s immense desire to be a   
   normal girl.   
      
   As if all that wasn’t bad enough though, the guy then has to tell her he’s   
   not going to say goodbye before leaving town - as they’re preparing for the   
   fight of their life against the mayor. It seemed like that news could’ve   
   waited. We get it, Angel was leaving Buffy for her own good and it was the   
   right call. However, he could’ve thought it through a little more. His   
   timely arrival at the prom almost makes up for it though.   
      
      
   2 THEIR CHEMISTRY IS SO INTENSE   
      
   Few fictional couples have lit up the screen quite as much as Buffy and   
   Angel. Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz had amazing chemistry. If   
   you’re wondering what about that doesn’t make sense, it’s that the actors   
   were so incredible at their jobs that viewers had no idea about the   
   behind-the-scenes shenanigans going on. According to Gellar, onscreen   
   kissing is the “[most unattractive] thing in the world.”   
      
   Gellar and Boreanaz were very close and did their best to make those scenes   
   more fun … by constantly pranking one another. They would try to one-up each   
   other, eating tuna fish or pickles right before kiss scenes.   
      
      
   1 THEIR SHARED DREAM EXPERIENCE   
      
   The slayer has prophetic dreams and is psychically linked to the rest of the   
   line. However, in “Amends”, Buffy and Angel make guest appearances in each   
   other’s dreams and how that happens is never expressly stated. The First   
   Slayer has the ability to walk in the dreams of others, so it might be a   
   power that Buffy possesses, but this was never really addressed.   
      
   The First could’ve also been responsible, but again, that was never   
   clarified. “Amends” is a great episode, so no one really complains. Still,   
   it’s interesting that this shared dream experience was never really   
   explained or revisited.   
      
      
   David   
      
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