Thursday Movie Picks: Love Triangles (Television Edition): Wandering through the Shelves hosts a weekly movie challenge in which you choose 3-5 movies based on that Thursday’s theme and explain why you chose those movies. Today’s theme is Love Triangles (Television Edition), so here are my choices! Mind you, there are spoilers ahead for these shows. BRENDA/DYLAN/KELLY (BEVERLY HILLS 90210) The Brenda/Dylan/Kelly love triangle is one of the very first love triangles I remember becoming incredibly invested in. I was Team Brenda all the way, and I have never wavered from that. Dylan and Brenda had so much more chemistry; Brenda seemed to understand Dylan way better than Kelly ever could, and frankly, Kelly should have known better than to go after her best friend’s boyfriend (Dylan is not innocent here either, I know). The Kelly and Dylan relationship never felt right to me, and I suffered through it as long as I could. I don’t care what happened in the “new generation” series between Dylan and Kelly… in my head, Brenda and Dylan are still living happily in Paris. (RIP Luke Perry). ANGEL/BUFFY/SPIKE (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER) This is a love triangle I try to keep from arguing about. I will never understand the appeal of Spike and Buffy as a couple. Yes, they had some good chemistry, and yes, Spike is a fantastic character (mostly)… but he and Buffy had zero going on beneath the physical attraction. Spike’s love for her is obsessive and creepy, and the scene between the two in the bathroom during season 6 (?) is one that I will never forget. For me, Angel and Buffy were always Meant to Be. She is his definitive happiness, and he is hers. BtVS and Angel tried to push the two toward other people, but it never felt quite the same. Buffy and Angel had that spark from the beginning, and it never faded. Team Angel 4EVA. JORDAN/ANGELA/BRIAN (MY SO-CALLED LIFE) My So-Called Life was a perfect television show that no one watched. I loved everything about it, and I still mourn that there was never a second season, especially as the season one finale left so many things up in the air. One of which was the outcome of Angela (Claire Danes) discovering Brian’s unrequited love for her. She had been pining over Jordan Catalano for the majority of the season, and while he took his time, Jordan finally came around to admitting his feelings for Angela as well. All the while, Brian Krakow, her childhood friend, has pined for her. When Jordan royally screws up, he recruits Brian to help him win Angela back by putting into a letter how he feels about her. Brian fills the letter with his feelings but signs Jordan’s name. The letter is practically perfect, and Angela and Jordan reunite. Of course… Angela discovers the truth…  we never get to know what would have happened between Angela and Brian because the show was canceled. But this was a love triangle where I wasn’t one hundred percent on board with one love or the other. Jordan grew a lot as a person because of Angela and how he felt about her. They had amazing chemistry, and while the bad boy tends to win over the sensitive soul, Brian’s love for Angela was clearly something that moved her, and the *promise* of these two lifelong friends finding love with each other was a very real possibility. I adored both, and I wished I knew what had happened to these characters. Do you have a favorite love triangle from television? Sound off in the comments!