I don't post a lot but i visit here several times a day.
I love spoilers and have great respect for all members here.
However, this season I have been affected by the negativity and it has coloured my enjoyment of the show.
Yes everyone is entitled to their feelings good or bad.
The other show i loved nearly as much as BATB was Buffy.
I am now going to use a couple of Spike quotes to express some feeling I have.
In regards to Vincent and Catherine:
Spike: (faces them) You're *no<edited> friends. You'll never be friends.
You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag,
and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be
friends. (points at his temple) Love isn't brains, children, it's
blood... (clasps his chest) blood screaming inside you to work its will.
In regards to Vincent of Seasn 1 and Season 1 as a whole :
Spike : Oh, someone put a stake in me.
Xander : You got a lot of volunteers in here.
Spike : I just can't take all this mamby-pamby boo-hooing about the bloody indians.
Buffy : Uh, the preferred term--
Spike : You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what caesar did, and he's not going around saying, "I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it." The history of the world isn't people making friends. You had better weapons, and you massacred them. End of story.
Buffy : Well, I think the spaniards actually did a lot of-- Not that I don't like spaniards.
Spike : Listen to you. How you gonna fight anyone with that attitude?
Willow : We don't wanna fight anyone.
Buffy : I just wanna have thanksgiving.
Spike : Heh heh. Yeah...Good luck.
Willow : If we could talk to him--
Spike : You exterminated his race. What could you possibly say that would make him feel better? It's kill or be killed here. Take your bloody pick.
This is how I feel. Season 1 and that Vincent are gone. They were beautiful but all the wringing of hands ain't bringing them back. We have to build a bridge and get over it . Embrace the new and hopefully we will be rewarded.
Oh and I was a Buffy Angel shipper all the way