caty_did | So I may be a tad neurotic (Reply)

I want to take a minute and explain some things about the season five chapters. There aren’t as many of them as one might expect. Season five is my favorite season and I really wanted to dive into all the denial and unrequited love, but I hit a roadblock. I had trouble finding organic places for a scene to occur. Buffy and Co. are pretty focused throughout the entire season on enormously important things, and it just doesn't seem realistic that they’d be sitting around and discussing Buffy and Spike. And then, when they did have a good reason, I felt like it was handled in canon. So even though I really wanted to utilize this season, I just couldn’t do it in a way I was comfortable with.