True, true. I already share a brain with Gvambat and there's really not room for more people in there.
Yes, you're entirely free to feel whatever you would like about Spuffy. I've read way too much meta on it, since it's a popular topic for meta, and have been told that: -It was a horribly abusive relationship for both of them -It was in fact a genuine romance -Spike almost raped Buffy -Buffy raped Spike -Buffy's abuse of Spike was worse than Spike's of Buffy -But of course anyone who believes that is in the habit of blaming the victim -S7 should have dealt with it and then had them move on -S7 they should have had sex, PCness be damned -Spike was entirely to blame for the AR -Spike wasn't at all to blame for the AR -Buffy was to blame -Or possibly Marti -And also of course Joss, who's fault it all is. -they were in a BDSM 'ship without a safeword and shit happens -Their relationship had no BDSM elements whatsoever
Personally I think that Spike should have gone to Africa to get a soul, and they should have played it straight, no stupid gimmick that leaves us all confused three years later, and then fought all the battles and then gotten his soul and then -- nothing. He felt exactly the same, the same guilt, the same desires, the same. Because dammit, that's where they were headed and it would have been interesting.
When I saw that the S6 overview on the DVD was called "Life is the Big Bad" I was totally struck and that's how I see the season and it works so well for me.
I totally sympathize with Buffy's financial problems since I couldn't even get a summer job last summer, not even working at the real life equivalent of a DMP. Also like Buffy, I can't drive. And that's about where my identification with her begins and ends, but S6 I totally get her. Except that she's a bitch to Spike, but honestly, on watching it for the second time, I was less appalled by her behavior towards him.
Elizabeth it is, then. I suck at witty nicknames, and the only one I ever bestowed's recipient has been trying for four years to make me stop calling her "Ska."
You, by the way, may call me wisdomeagle or Ari or RE or Ruth Ellen, although I generally prefer Ari for ol discussion and in fact it feels odd to have people call me by my full name now since I've been nicknamed for so long, but if you call me Ruth, I'll have to beat you with a virtual stick.
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Date: 2005-02-03 06:27 am (UTC)Yes, you're entirely free to feel whatever you would like about Spuffy. I've read way too much meta on it, since it's a popular topic for meta, and have been told that:
-It was a horribly abusive relationship for both of them
-It was in fact a genuine romance
-Spike almost raped Buffy
-Buffy raped Spike
-Buffy's abuse of Spike was worse than Spike's of Buffy
-But of course anyone who believes that is in the habit of blaming the victim
-S7 should have dealt with it and then had them move on
-S7 they should have had sex, PCness be damned
-Spike was entirely to blame for the AR
-Spike wasn't at all to blame for the AR
-Buffy was to blame
-Or possibly Marti
-And also of course Joss, who's fault it all is.
-they were in a BDSM 'ship without a safeword and shit happens
-Their relationship had no BDSM elements whatsoever
Personally I think that Spike should have gone to Africa to get a soul, and they should have played it straight, no stupid gimmick that leaves us all confused three years later, and then fought all the battles and then gotten his soul and then -- nothing. He felt exactly the same, the same guilt, the same desires, the same. Because dammit, that's where they were headed and it would have been interesting.
When I saw that the S6 overview on the DVD was called "Life is the Big Bad" I was totally struck and that's how I see the season and it works so well for me.
I totally sympathize with Buffy's financial problems since I couldn't even get a summer job last summer, not even working at the real life equivalent of a DMP. Also like Buffy, I can't drive. And that's about where my identification with her begins and ends, but S6 I totally get her. Except that she's a bitch to Spike, but honestly, on watching it for the second time, I was less appalled by her behavior towards him.
Elizabeth it is, then. I suck at witty nicknames, and the only one I ever bestowed's recipient has been trying for four years to make me stop calling her "Ska."
You, by the way, may call me