I suppose I could allow that Joss is human and he just goofed it. But in secret I still kind of think of him as my television God.

Dru was truly CREEPY when other vampires tended to put the vamp in vampire. I loved her and the actress was also brilliant. Joss gets the good actresses. I suppose that has to do with writing juicy female roles, eh? Loved the Fanged Four, too. Sometimes I felt like the back story was crowding out the current story from a narrative PoV but I never minded because they were so interesting.

I liked Spike. I liked him better as a villain because it felt a little like they were writing him into the role that Angel was meant to fill, down to his gaining a soul. I love James Marsters and his chemistry with SMG was scorching. I didn't like the way that they wrote the Spike/Buffy relationship but I just wanted James on my screen so I kind of lump it. (But Buffy is the one show I can think of where I don't have an OTP. Or even a preference. I love them all. I love Willow/Oz AND Willow/Tara. I love Buffy/Angel, Buffy/Riley, and Buffy/Spike. I love Anya/Xander.)

I watched the show in spurts over a year rather than over seven years. Watching a show that way fundamentally changes how I interact with it so it's no surprise that I'm less OTP-prone. I don't get invested in couples in quite the same way emotionally.