And when it comes to relationships, well, Brian/Justin is hot, but their relationship is completely uninteresting to me. And Brian/Michael is incredibly interesting, but not at all hot.

You've articulated exactly my problem with the ships on that show! That's why I like Chase, I think... she brings the Brian/Michael angst and add her own brand of hotness.

Years of reading almost literally every Spike fic I could find have left me with very little tolerance for bad writing.

Heh. I just started reading just about all the Veronica Mars fanfic I could find (for vm_fic, and my oh my is there a lot of terrible fic out there. I start to see the pain.