The reason that I first became enraptured in BtVS was the relationship between Buffy and Angel. This is probably why I have always had this thing about Buffy and Angel and not being able to be together. Sure he's immortal and she's not, but in case everyone's forgotten: she's also the Slayer. This means that not only will she never get a normal life, it will be short. It was decreed by Fate a long time ago and we all knew that she would kick the bucket. The ending of season five has more than proved my case.

The only problem I ever saw them having to face is the part about not being able to have sex. But even then, I never thought it was the act itself that would make him lose his soul, but rather the idea that he was in the arms of someone he truly loved. Which was also proved last season on Angel when nothing happened to him after having sex with Darla. So really, none of the things the Mayor described would have happened to them because she would not only die early, but he could theoretically have sex with her as long as he was a touch paranoid about it. So why not be with the one both of them truly loves for the rather short amount of time one of them has on earth? That's why I think what Angel did in The Prom was cruel. And that's why all this "they can never be" crap always got on my nerves.

And as for the "normal life" thing anyway, who would want one? If I had a love as great as what they had, an attraction that pulled them so in tune with one another that they can sense the others' presence without even knowing it, I wouldn't really care. I would find some way to work it out. Honestly, the biggest thing tearing them apart is individual whineyness. I want to see them together and I feel like the lamest excuses are used to keep them apart. And now it's really all over. Buffy died, and so where did their "being smart" get them? Just two years where Buffy still didn't have a real life. And another screwed up, although yummy, relationship, which she could have had with Angel.