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Buffy Summers and Spike

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 6x07

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER S4E17: Superstar | S6E7: Once More, With Feeling

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spuffy + watching tv  5.03 | 5.04 | 6.07 | 7.13

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BUFFY SUMMERS | 6.07: Once More, with Feeling

"Life's a show and we all play our parts And when the music starts We open up our hearts"

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, July 18-Friday, July 19

Joyce: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to put down... Buffy: Yeah, well, you did. It doesn't matter. I have to go. I have to go on one of my pointless patrols and react to some vampires. If that's alright with MOO... And nice acronym, Mom.

~~Gingerbread~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Dig Deeper (Buffy, PG-13) by veronyxk84

Make Me Better (Buffy/Maggie Walsh, M) by MadeInGold

What Was That Noise? (Angel/Spike, T) by MadeInGold

When the Hellmouth Freezes Over (Giles/Maggie Walsh, T) by MadeInGold

Game Over? (Giles, G) by LonesomeSundown

Drunken Dreams (Giles/Spike, E) by MaggieLaFey

Buffy's Bad Day (Buffy/Angel, G) by badly_knitted

Groovy Baby (Buffy/Giles, E) by unendingwanderlust

[Chaptered Fiction]

Forgiveness Doesn't Come Easy, Chapter 35 (Buffy/Spike, R) by slaymesoftly

Shadowed Suspicion, Chapter 434 (Crossover with Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, T) by madimpossibledreamer

are we destined to burn?, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Giles, E) by Skyson

Spuffy Drabbles, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, T) by spikesummers

Leveraged and Bestowed, Chapter 1 (Giles/Ethan Rayne, T) by CoffeeMilkLuvr

the face of someone (i don't know), Chapter 1 (Buffy/Giles, E) by guin_ramble and zombiesam

Dead Man's Afterparty, Chapter 1 (Giles, Buffy, G) by Greensword101

Stygian Nights, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by JamesMFan

Waiting for You, Chatper 13 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by honeygirl51885

The Degradation of Duality [Series Part 2], Chapter 30 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Ragini

A Blackcap's Song, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Murray

Tale as Old as Time, Chapter 7 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by honeygirl51885

Yes or No?, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by scratchmeout

In The Dark With You, Chapter 31 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Geliot99

A weapon of victory, Chapter 12 (Crossover with Lord of the Rings, FR7) by fpb

Unicorn, Chapter 7 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Desicat

Lie To Me, Chapter 32 (Buffy/Spike, AO) by In Mortal

Perception, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, G) by flootzavut

First Love, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, AO) by Spikesgirl

[Images, Audio & Video]

Craft:A little bracelet that I made! by DasSockenmonster

Artwork:just a bit of light reading by mistyintherivers

Artwork:Now Kith by fallinginaforrest

Artwork:Fantasy by ice-fire-art

Gifset:No, look at me. I love you. by ladyverdance

Gifset:6x07 | "Once More, With Feeling" by clarkgriffon

Gifset:Every Tara Look: S4E10 Hush by lovebvffys

Video: Buffy Summers x Rupert Giles - «I Always Wondered About You Two» by Kiss The Librarian

Video: Buffy Summers - The weight of living by Faith Victoria

Video: Buffy, The Vampire Slayer - Right Way To Do The Wrong Thing by Boo Harder

Video: Buffy Summers | forever young by Spuffylove Edits

Video: loml [buffy + angel] by Aurora Edits

[Reviews & Recaps]

The Hero We Needed | SEASON 6 FINALE | Buffy the Vampire Slayer 6x22 "Grave" by The Normies

Selfless: Buffy 7x05 Reaction by Dakara

Buffy The Vampire Slayer | 2x2 "Some Assembly Required" | REACTION by Andres El Rey

The Re-Watcher's Council | "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" Buffy S02E16 Spoiler Review by LGRN - Entertainment

"Blood Ties" | Buffy 5x13 - First Time Watching by Dodo Reactions

Buffy The Vampire Slayer 5x17 Forever Reaction | First Time Watching by Jules Reacts

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 3x15 & 3x16 REACTION | Faith in the Hot Seat & Vamp Willow Returns! by The Horror Bandwagon

Buffy the Vampire Slayer REACTION | Season 6, Episode 21: Two to Go by JayPeaKay

Podcast: Angel S4E5: Supersymmetry by Booze & Buffy

Podcast: Once more with feeling - 5x22The Gift by Nerd Subculture Podcast

[Fandom Discussions]

Buffy should have had a cat by 5bi5

What If: Cordelia did pass on the visions by multiple authors

Did anyone else notice that Anya talked a lot less about her victims/ demon days after this episode? by multiple authors

Why did Buffy not use her powers in 3x18 Earshot to defeat the big bad? by multiple authors

What would have happened if Angel hadn't left? by multiple authors

What's something from the Buffyverse that shocked you, but at the same time, it didn't shock you? by multiple authors

Giles leaving in Tabula Rasa by multiple authors

Does anyone else not feel strongly about Buffy and Dawn's relationship? by multiple authors

Has anyone had thoughts on the size of angels and spike (reproductive organ) [NSFW] by multiple authors

Between Superstar, Real Me, and Storyteller how would you rank these somewhat atypical character-centric episodes? by multiple authors

Food For Thought… by multiple authors

Let's talk about Buffy by multiple authors

Tento di Cruciamentum Slayer deaths by multiple authors

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[tuiyla]

Congrats on finishing season 6! I’d like to ask, what are your thoughts on Spuffy this season? I know Seeing Red can make it difficult, so totally chill if you don’t wanna, but I find their dynamic fascinating and I’d love to hear your thoughts.

I'm actually so sad that I finished season 6 haha but oh well.

The good part of Seeing Red is that it's at the very end and Spuffy's last interaction for the season so I can talk about everything else and then touch on it.

We were off to a good start with episode 3 and Buffy only finding it in herself to confide in Spike. I think it's so layered that she did so, including but not limited to Spike's lyrics in Once More, With Feeling: a whisper in a dead man's ear. In that sense, Buffy starts "using" Spike at the very start. She can't bring herself to confess to her friends but Spike, Spike is... there. And willing to listen and actually understands far more than Buffy thinks others would. (Side note and not a Spuffy one, but damn I thought Buffy and Willow would have more of a confrontation about the whole ripped-from-heaven thing post 6x07. Oh well.) By confiding in Spike, Buffy, perhaps inadvertently, forms a bond with him straight after returning to the land of the living.

I see 6x07 and after that as the next step of this. The songs do a wonderful job of conveying Buffy's depression and her need to just, feel. Doesn't matter what. And it's pretty clear that kissing Spike is more to do with her own feelings of depression than it is with him, at first anyway. Fascinating that Buffy knows, not so deep down, that she's using Spike but him being a special situation of a vampire without a soul she sort of lets herself get away with it. Buffy is usually the person being used, even when it's as innocuous as being everyone's hero. It's still a form of being an instrument to others.

The next stage, one I have the most icky feelings about up until Seeing Red happens is when Spike realizes Buffy "came back wrong". Which she didn't, as Tara reveals to us and Buffy, but Spike delights at the thought. Not only does it make them equal once again in terms of throwing punches but, in his eyes, it brings Buffy down to his level. His insistence that she's some sort of demon now, too, is wrong of course but it also betrays just how desperately Spike wants them to be equals. He resented being called beneath her and now he gets to, in a way, bring Buffy down to his level. Which I find extra insidious when you consider that it wasn't just Buffy trying to alienate Spike by degrading him, it was Spike putting Buffy on a pedestal and blaming her for it. So it's a messy dynamic for sure, but like you said in the notes of that other post it's meant to be. Spuffy is dysfunctional (in season 6), yes, but I appreciate the intentionality behind it. I think it's quite repulsive that Spike is so desperate to make Buffy believe she's lesser than she was and that she needs to come live in the shadows with him, but it makes sense for the character and provides interesting drama for Buffy.

After all these years of UST I figured they would go for it but I was surprised to see just how explicitly sexual season 6 was. Not just through the Spuffy kinky sexcapades, though mostly that, but also with Willow and Tara being allowed much, much more than before. Which was lovely to see and wild to think that this was back in 2001/2002. And with Spuffy, it wasn't just what the camera showed and suggested but the graphic language used. Again, it fits, and if they just danced around the topic it would have made no sense and lessened the impact of the storyline. I suppose it's just strange to compare it to the, no pun intended, innocence of Bangel. Even curse aside, it was such a wildly different dynamic. I bring the sexuality of it all up because, as I mentioned when you asked about 5x07 violence and sex really do have such a thin line between them with Spike. And I do think it got a bit too much during their first sex scene, because there's only so much you can do in conflating the two before it becomes, sigh, hate the word but problematic. I'll circle back to this when I get around to talking about, sigh, Seeing Red.

Anyway, I think that thought process would lead me down quite the side tangent. So what I will say about the on and off sexcapades of Spuffy during midseason is that I've already seen arguments on just how bad it was for Buffy to be using him but to me it just reads as a mutually destructive thing. Yes, Buffy was using Spike despite knowing, if not wanting to believe that he had genuine feelings. Yes, even after she realized she too had feelings she denied and deflected and degraded. But like I say, I don't see that as any worse than Spike whispering in her ear about being demon-like, about being something that can't be around her friends anymore. More than the thin line between sex and violence and the using of each other physically, this is what's truly messed up about them in season 6. Buffy keeps hitting him the heart with all but an actual stake and Spike keeps fuelling her worst fears.

On a storytelling level, I think it's really interesting and overall executed well. I don't think the presentation of the text ever shies away from how messed up it is. The one thing I've seen backlash for in terms of how it was/was not acknowledged in the text is Buffy's invisibility stunt and the whole pinning Spike to a wall and unbuttoning his shirt before he realizes it's her. I don't know if it's even worth discussing, honestly, but I will say that I find one on one comparisons of that scene with Seeing Red to be wholly disingenuous. I do think it was a bit of a double standard portrayal and the rest of the season is quite good at acknowledging Buffy's treatment of Spike as iffy, but this scene isn't nearly the same.

Alright, let me think if there's anything else in the leadup to 6x19. Oh yes, the whole "tell your friends!! fine I'll tell your friends!!!" thing and Spike sleeping with Anya. Eh. Compared to their earlier drama I didn't find this stage nearly as compelling. Spike is pissed and petty. Rip to me I might just be different but I don't find him sleeping with Anya that big an offense. Sure, it was a dick against Buffy but it's not like Buffy's hurt really has a leg to stand on after she's made it clear that she wants them to be over. And Spike didn't do it out of malice, so I don't blame him much for this. As for telling Xander about them and the cat being out of the bag, it was again not something I can really hold against Spike. I'm not saying my conclusion of this portion of their arc is "wow Buffy was a bitch, poor Spike!" but, if not for Seeing Red, I'd think most of Spike's pov is justified. Keeping in mind that him wanting to gaslight Buffy into thinking she was a demon was still appalling.

And then, okay, Seeing Red. I accidentally spoiled this for myself when browsing on TVTropes, or at least a Spuffy assault scene happening and I'm glad I was mentally prepared cause god, that was a lot. I think I'll be able to say more conclusive thoughts once I see season 7 and see how they handle the aftermath. For now, I'll say that I don't think it's impossible for Spike to come back from this but he'll need to work harder than "just" going through the Demon Trials and getting that soul. I like that it broke the pedestal Dawn had him on. In terms of Spuffy, god.

It does make things marginally better that he seemed like he genuinely was just not thinking and got carried away. I already hate anyone who justifies it by saying Buffy had "trained" him not to take no for an answer and to be rough, though. Because assault is assault. And there were other Spuffy sexy times where Buffy did say no and nevertheless, they ended up having sex, and not saying that's not sus. But Buffy screaming and crying and begging is surely different. Damn, SMG acted her heart out with that.

The fact of the matter is, Seeing Red was a natural conclusion to their destructive dynamic this season. I'm not saying it was inevitable and if I'm correct many (including James Marsters?) hate that it happened. But I don't think it was out of character, as such. Really, a lot depends on how it will be handled. Spike now with a soul better feel damn guilty about the thing and I would hope that this makes him reconsider the whole sex+violence=love thing. But I also hope Buffy takes longer than a second to forgive. This was a traumatic experience no matter how we spin it and I want justice for Buffy as a character in that sense. I don't think this marked a point of no return for them at all, but since BtVS hasn't had the greatest track record with sexual violence I think this is their chance to get it right. Ah well, we'll see.

I'm sure their whole season 6 deal and particularly Seeing Red is quite polarizing. I'd actually be super interested if there were discussion threads or old forum posts, whatever, floating around about Seeing Red specifically. Even if they're not spoiler-free in terms of season 7 I'd love to save them and go back when I can.

Alright, I'm not sure I could offer much or anything novel but the bottom line is that yeah, I find them fascinating too. The relationship works very well with the season's themes and characters' arcs and while I can't comfortably say I support what they have this season, it is interesting drama.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Favorite episodes (1/?) | Once More, With Feeling

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Spike being literally the only one of her friends to be like "ummm obviously she's not facing the dancing fire demon alone - wtf is wrong with you people?!"

Like how is everybody else failing her so fucking hard? 😆

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— 6x07; "once more, with feeling"

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Spike and Buffy Summers

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER  S5E7: Fool for Love | S6E7: Once More, With Feeling (requested by disco-tea) 

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30 Days of Buffy Challenge

13. Favorite S6 Episode Once More, With Feeling (6x07)

I had to.

Once More, With Feeling is what I would consider to be one of my top favorite episodes of Buffy overall. It's a musical episode, and I love me a good musical episode, it delves into Buffy and her struggles with being brought back from the dead, and has one of the hardest scenes to watch in the whole series.

While I do believe the music can be a tad rough at times, Rest in Peace and I'll Never Tell are two songs I'll never get tired of. I could delve into the specifics of each song in the episode and why they're important in their own ways, but that would make this post far too long. Maybe I'll make a separate post about that, but for now I just want to say the music is Good.

The most important part of the episode is that it very explicitly leads into upcoming events. It's a transition episode. It foreshadows Giles leaving (again), Xander and Anya's marriage never coming to be, and of course, Spuffy's evolution into a sort of full-fledged, toxic relationship. We, as the audience, have been aware Spike has been in love with Buffy since s5 - although it probably started earlier, to be fair - but I feel Buffy doesn't TRULY reciprocate it till this season. There are some Spuffy moments in s5, but it isn't dived into until now. Of course, their relationship is very very fucked up, regardless of love being there or not. Buffy is using Spike as a way to cope with the trauma of dying and being brought back to life, and she admits this. Spike is... well, Spike. He's fucked up as a whole.

Spuffy aside, let's talk about the hardest scene to watch in the whole series.

I'd say Under Your Spell is simultaneously one of the sweetest yet hardest to endure songs I've ever heard. Tara is oblivious to what happened between her and Willow, oblivious to the fact that she'd been manipulated by her lover. She's so heartfelt and honest in this song that it's achingly sweet, until you realize how fucked up it really is. It's made even worse by the fact that Willow and Tara end up having sex, when Tara would probably not consent to that if she'd known about the events that happened previously. When Tara finds out Willow used a spell on her to make her forget their argument, she is very reasonably upset and feels betrayed. She confronts her about it in the next episode, which is also an equally heartbreaking episode for Tillow. Honestly, I don't know how Tara managed to even look at Willow after that. I've barely talked about my thoughts on the whole thing, but @girl4music has some amazing posts about Tara and Willow's relationship during s6. I suggest checking their blog out!

This post is already getting really long, so I think I'll end it here. It's a good episode.

Honorable mentions: Tabula Rasa, Older and Far Away, Doublemeat Palace. DIShonorable mention: Normal Again. God, I hate this episode, I hate it so much.

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Once More With Feeling 6x07