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On Buffy the Vampire Slayerthe title character has faced many tough decisions over the years, but perhaps the hardest was choosing who her heart belongs to: Angel, a creepy vampire with a soul, or Spike, a bad boy vampire who reluctantly joined the Scooby Gang and even got a soul of his own.
Debates over which choice is the right one still rage throughout the community, with fans rooting for either Bangel (Buffy/Angel) or Spuffy (Spike/Buffy). While fans may never get a definitive answer, Buffy actress Sarah Michelle Gellar did. In an old Reddit Ask Me Anything thread, she chose Angela over Spike.
Buffy, Angel and Spike
If you’ve never seen a Buffy episodes or just caught the occasional reruns, you might need some background on how Angel and Spike became romantic prospects for Gellar’s character. In short, Angel has been her love interest since season one, and the show shamelessly plumbed the depths of romantic melodrama with a star-studded story of a vampire and a vampire slayer falling in love. Meanwhile, Spike was introduced as an enemy and former associate of Angel in season 2 and began developing feelings for Buffy in season 5, two seasons after Angel left Sunnydale for his own spinoff.
Buffy didn’t see much of Angel (besides the occasional cameo) after his spinoff started, and that spinoff made Spike a mainstay in the cast. The abandoned girl Cordelia also left Buffy and joins Angelo as another familiar face in Los Angeles Angel. Because of this, showrunner Joss Whedon brought Marsters on board as a regular BuffyA fourth season that fills the hilariously antagonistic role that Cordelia once did, though the evil vamp eventually developed feelings for Buffy, culminating in their destructive (literally and metaphorically) relationship in Season 6.
Ironically enough, BuffyThe latest episode did nothing to calm speculation about whether Sarah Michelle Gellar’s character should end up with Angel or Spike. Earlier in the episode, she has a candid conversation with Angel about her future, confirming that Spike is not a “friend” but that “he’s in my heart.” She admits that she’s not ready for a relationship yet and hasn’t “thought that far ahead”, but hints that she and Angel could still have a future together.
With this scene, you might think that Buffy will end up choosing Angel over Spike, but things get complicated when Spike sacrifices himself to save the world. Just before she dies, Buffy tells Spike, “I love you,” to which Spike replies, “No, you don’t, but thanks for saying that. There you have it, folks: in the same Buffy episode, our Slayer implied a romantic future with Angel and she pledged her love to Spike, leaving fans forever questioning who she was supposed to end up with.
Sarah Michelle Gellar chooses Angel
However, the Buffy actor Sarah Michelle Gellar he thinks Angel is the only logical choice, rather than Spike. On her Reddit AMA, a fan asked “Spike or Angel” and she capitalized it with “ANGEL.” Later, another Redditor asked the same question and she reaffirmed her answer: “still Angel.”
Hearing that the woman who brought Buffy Summers to life prefers Angel over Spike might be enough to end fans’ constant guessing over the matter. However, in all likelihood, most fans will continue to choose their battle lines based on which actor had the best performance and which one had the best hair. That last one is a little unfair…as all Spuffy fans know, Captain Peroxide has a better job and we’re always rooting for this bleached blonde bear to win Buffy’s heart over Boreanaz’s brooding boring leech.
Source: AND! News
