Please do not have Buffy beat Spike with a prosthetic leg and expect me to take the story seriously.

Good thing I don't remember it. ;)

I agree with your assessment of her Buffy, but I don't know who of the her characters was driving me crazy more: Coldhearted bitch Buffy, Too good to be true Spike, or the brick wall between Spike and William she built.

I've read couple of intallments of that last one, then ran away, so I don't know much of Gem, but I think I would like the ultimate goodness in her.