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ok I’m only on season 5 but can someone explain to me how Xander is the universally hated one for, from what I can tell, some bad choices and worse jokes, while Spike, the fandom’s babygirl and beloved heartthrob, literally stalks Buffy, holds her captive, and then commissions a robot version of her when it’s made clear he’ll never have her. like someone please explain it because the math is not mathing.

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And then they made everything dirty because people loved Spike and they couldn't allow people to like them together as well. Because it wasn't approved from their boss's team. Lol.

I remember losing my mind seeing the first kiss between Buffy and Spike and it is still perfect all these years later.

Buffy realising that Spike would do anything to keep her and her family safe without expecting anything in return is such an important step in their relationship.

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Because this way they would be compared. People would say who you like better and so on. They take another girl from the team and make a whole new show with her as the lead because they liked her enough to make a separated project.

This sounds really petty, but I can't feel the magic of buffy at the moment because what do you mean Angel's got his own show, too, like I knew about that before but he's just so ..... boring, why can't it just be cordelia, not that mopey dead guy.

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And then someone says that Riley "literally never said that he was affected by her strength". Literally never. When you neither pay attention nor want to know how that actually was

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Great abs. So really far

Spike: I have a great ass and I’m blonde.

Spike: You have no idea how far that gets me.

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Me coming out of my blanket

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insp

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"I love what you neglected to do with the place"

Joyce is so funny. I love that her and Spike get along and that Buffy trusts Spike to keep Dawn and Joyce safe.

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Girls when they are in love

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He doesn't like it

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Okay, so...I think we can call that flashback confirmation that the showrunners were doing the whole adult-taking-advantage-of-a-teenager subtext deliberately. Which is neat.

First- holy hell, Angel, you turned your financial situation around fast in less than a year! Do the Powers that Be give you a salary or something for you to be able to afford that nice apartment in Sunnydale or are property values in this town just that low?

...it would explain people still living there, I guess.

Second...I love, and by love I mean hate, the way that Angel later uses his century of eating rats as an argument of his moral superiority over Spike. You know, the guy who, within weeks of getting his soul, was back in the good fight without taking a century's sabbatical between-times? Yeah, it taking literal intervention from the heavens to make Angel start helping people as a means of redemption rather than just punishing himself does not actually help his case.

Third, I am unclear about why the Powers That Be decided that the best way to motivate Angel to start doing good in the world rather than just suffering endlessly to make himself feel that he's been properly punished for being bad was to dangle a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl in front of him. But it says nothing good about either him or the PTB.

Fourth - eugh. Just....eeugh. She's- so young, here. Like- the actress is an adult, but Buffy just...fuck, they gave her a damn lollipop, she's just- she's such a child in this scene. Not in a bad way, she's fifteen, of course she's a damn child. But that is a whole grown man right there, filmed in the most 'I have candy in my van' way imaginable.

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Idk how James Marsters pulls off that Disney princess eye twinkle.

oh sweet anon, i feel you.

I think there’s perhaps something in the shape of his eyes that makes him all innocent-looking, even if Spike’s just caused the usual chaos that follows in his wake.

He can go from bad-boy smize™ to wide-eyed angelic just like ✨that✨.

And when that doe-eyed look combines with the head tilt…something magical occurs…

…a Disney-princess twinkle you might say.

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Another piece done by my sibling about the fic Hit Rewind (which we both read and have many many discussions about)

Enjoy :)

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 6.13 | "Dead Things"

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3 episodes with sex. Season has 22. Again, looks like she won the argument. And I saw that she mostly didn't want to be naked. And in half of it she's fully dressed. And second half has her up to her chest covered with smth. So she won again. Not much of a boob tape and especially a thong. Yes, these arguments will be avoided when there's a coordinator. That's what coordinator talks mean. But anyway she won eventually. The one who was naked or half naked was James only. Because he didn't have a voice.

I saw dailes when she often laughs during it or she deliberately ruins takes making faces, so making them film it longer. Looks like the duration of a making out scene even when you're covered with smth wasn't such a big problem.

And about the duration of general scenes in s7. She just got married and didn't want to spend 20 hours filming. And eventually she announced that s7 is the last one during interview when the rest cast didn't know. So they learned that they no longer have a job in this interview. This doesn't look like caring a lot. I see that she was advocating for herself mostly. And give it or take she got what she wanted sooner or later.

I saw her interviews with Shannen Doherty when from time to time Sarah says that she likes talking about herself. And I see it there.

They also filmed their projects on the same network for 3 years and became friends. And continued it for 20 years. There was a big scandal with Charmed when the main actress and her friend left suddenly. Even years after that people were talking about it. And it turned out that Sarah didn't even know that they continued filming without Doherty. She is your friend and you didn't even bother and didn't care to learn it about her life when it was everywhere.

And praising Whedon and making your colleagues praise him too when he's right in front of you looks like ass kissing. You can talk about the series, which is PR already but when you put so much emphasis on his praise, when he neither wrote, nor directed nor played it. But he was a showrunner. This is ass kissing after 5 years when you didn't start a new equally big project as Buffy. This industry is such. I don't idealize these people. They're not their characters. If I watch their series doesn't mean they're my personal idols. These people praise you when you're at the top but when you're down they don't want their name to be associated with you, like Sarah said after Whedon got into trouble. Without direct connection, but people in this industry go to Diddy's parties, dream about it, praise it but the second he's in trouble they suddenly all left early and didn't see anything. This characterizes the industry very well. I don't idealize them.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer really could have used an intimacy coordinator. Someone specifically there to ensure during those intimacy scenes, the actors/actresses were safe and comfortable.

Idk if they were a thing 20ish years ago but damn.

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What exploitative sex scenes? I saw dailes and they filmed some hot stuff but the final cut, actual episode version is always much cleaner. And they stopped filming such scenes pretty fast. They had it 9, 12, 13. 10th had just kisses. So 3 eps and after 13 there are no sex scenes. I really think that she was the only person they actually listened. Because she was the main star. For the rest guys he didn't care. The only time when he didn't involving her is when she was against RA scene. But Whedon insisted because he liked it for them that much.

I will always remember the moment when they gathered all together 5 years later maybe and at some point SMG said about smashed scene. That it won some competition as the best sex scene. And she told James that he should thank Whedon. Whedon gave Marsters a physiological trauma after RA. But of all of them he is the one who should thank Whedon for his sex scenes. It didn't seem like sex scenes bothered her that much. She was more interested that it won smth.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer really could have used an intimacy coordinator. Someone specifically there to ensure during those intimacy scenes, the actors/actresses were safe and comfortable.

Idk if they were a thing 20ish years ago but damn.

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my favorite thing rn is imagining post-canon spike as being like. the most normal guy ever. it's so fucking funny i'm obsessed with the idea. like yeah he's a vampire and has done all sorts of crazy shit but he's also just some guy. his favorite hobbies are 1. Loving His Girlfriend and 2. Just Hanging Out. nothing else.