it was cute that the one woman was a little starstruck by Spike, having written her thesis about him.
Someone online has actually written what they think it would be. *digs* http://www.channelingboards.com/SpikeThesis/
BtVS 14: Crush
To give you some background here, this episode was quite controversial at the time because the writer of it, David Fury, made some comments about the fans of Spike/Buffy before it aired (I can find them if you're curious?) that basically said he hated the idea of it and that fans of it should be writing to real-life murderers. A lot of people said the writing of the episode felt heavy-handed, like the author is trying to hit them over the head with a 'message' rather than letting things develop organically (which also became a complaint for a particular episode in S6 by a different writer) especially the scene where Tara's discussing Quasimodo. So it's interesting to see a reaction from someone who wasn't exposed to the whole thing at the time.
He just wanted Buffy to see how much he really wanted her, and as usual, he overestimated how much Buffy would care about that.
And once again, Buffy's emotional rather than practical - I'd totally have had Spike kill Drusilla. She killed a bunch of people on a train, and Buffy's the Slayer. It's not like you can't say 'Just kidding' afterwards! ;) I like Dru, though, so I'm glad they didn't.
I had really hoped he would come
This scene actually didn't work for me at all; I wonder whether it has to do with being a B/A shipper or not. (I was usually ambivalent towards them.) I liked the resolution they had in S3, and while I liked most of 'I Will Remember You', I found it a tad sentimental; but by this point, it seemed like the crossovers were just ratings stunts and meant that the characters progression apart seemed to dissolve for the sake of fanservice. (Not that visiting because of Joyce wasn't IC, but following on from the four S4 crossovers, it just felt a little 'Ross/Rachel' by this point for me.)
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Date: 2006-10-04 03:59 pm (UTC)Someone online has actually written what they think it would be. *digs* http://www.channelingboards.com/SpikeThesis/
BtVS 14: Crush
To give you some background here, this episode was quite controversial at the time because the writer of it, David Fury, made some comments about the fans of Spike/Buffy before it aired (I can find them if you're curious?) that basically said he hated the idea of it and that fans of it should be writing to real-life murderers.
A lot of people said the writing of the episode felt heavy-handed, like the author is trying to hit them over the head with a 'message' rather than letting things develop organically (which also became a complaint for a particular episode in S6 by a different writer) especially the scene where Tara's discussing Quasimodo.
So it's interesting to see a reaction from someone who wasn't exposed to the whole thing at the time.
He just wanted Buffy to see how much he really wanted her, and as usual, he overestimated how much Buffy would care about that.
And once again, Buffy's emotional rather than practical - I'd totally have had Spike kill Drusilla. She killed a bunch of people on a train, and Buffy's the Slayer. It's not like you can't say 'Just kidding' afterwards! ;) I like Dru, though, so I'm glad they didn't.
I had really hoped he would come
This scene actually didn't work for me at all; I wonder whether it has to do with being a B/A shipper or not. (I was usually ambivalent towards them.)
I liked the resolution they had in S3, and while I liked most of 'I Will Remember You', I found it a tad sentimental; but by this point, it seemed like the crossovers were just ratings stunts and meant that the characters progression apart seemed to dissolve for the sake of fanservice. (Not that visiting because of Joyce wasn't IC, but following on from the four S4 crossovers, it just felt a little 'Ross/Rachel' by this point for me.)