<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I also always found the photo refs to just be a flirtatious joke. It’s their thing. If his character was an actual stalker or general creep, then it would have a different meaning.<div><br></div><div>Buffy and Gilmore Girls are my other 2 all-time fave shows. I’ve never had an issue with Angel. The older I get in my annual rewatches of both Buffy and GG, the more I see Rory and Buffy treating her BFs badly too (not that the BFs didn’t also have problems). People in their teens and 20s were pretty immature.</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Claire</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 20 Aug 2025, at 17:18, Belinda <lynda2475@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">I always took this to be a joke. But running Lynda's undies up the flagpole actually happened so much more cringe worthy.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 19 Aug 2025, 21:51 Paul Bathgate, <<a href="mailto:starbuck320@googlemail.com">starbuck320@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear Laura</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thank you for clarifying that line, I never thought of it that way, just him joking around, but if he was being serious, well that is very creepy and out of order.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thank you again.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Paul</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 at 05:48, Laura Nunn <<a href="mailto:laura.nunn@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">laura.nunn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">That was one of the lines whilst watching with my then 11 year old I had to explain, yes it’s funny BUT that is not acceptable behaviour from Spike and it’s actually creepy and criminal. He might be joking, in which case it’s ok, but it’s not made clear, so… yikes!<div><br></div><div>There were a lot of toxic men presented as romantic or aspirational boyfriends in the 90s/00s - Angel from Buffy, all the ones from The Gilmore Girls, Ross from friends. They were all deeply troublesome.</div><div><div><br></div><div>Mostly PG holds up really well in terms of script and Spike isn’t truly toxic, but there are a few moments like this (mostly Spike-based but sometimes Colin and occasionally Lynda) where you really notice times have changed!</div><div><br></div><div><br id="m_8779966847088216787m_-7745598353271414512m_2098454965915223211lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 18 Aug 2025, at 21:54, Paul Bathgate <<a href="mailto:starbuck320@googlemail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">starbuck320@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div>🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣</div><div dir="auto">Great writing </div><div><br></div><div>Peace & One Love</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 18 Aug 2025, 03:27 prydonia, <<a href="mailto:prydonia@proton.me" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">prydonia@proton.me</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Spike:<span>
</span>Isn't this fun? I haven't done this since I took those pyjama shots of
you.<u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="SV">Lynda:<span> </span>Pyjama shots?<u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Spike:<span>
</span>You thought it was lightning, didn't you?<u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br>
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