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Subject: Re: Another Spike Spoiler

Author:
alane

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Date Posted: 21:08:57 03/16/02 Sat
In reply to: Platypus 's message, "Re: Another Spike Spoiler" on 20:47:40 03/16/02 Sat

>Well, as much as people here liked the scene in Hell's
>Bells, it worried me because I felt she did throw him
>some crumbs. Yes, she said it didn't change anything
>- but she also let him know that she was hurt that he
>was with something else.
>
>Maybe it's just me, but if someone first told me that
>they didn't love me yet acknowledged being hurt at
>seeing me with another person, I'm going "ding ding
>ding" - maybe you DO have feelings for me after all.
>And that's my problem with the scene, it seems to me
>like she's still sending him mixed signals.

I wonder if Joss purposely changed that Wedding scene so that Spike wouldn't come off quite as bad in this scene where she has to literally stop him?

I mean, if we had AYW with her saying it was over. HB where she in the original scene was very cold and bitter to him. NA where she told him he was not a part of her life. And then, after he has drunken sex with Anya, he tries to force himself on her, that really would be a disaster for the character.

>
>BTW, aside from the physical abuse issue, I think one
>of the things that disturbs me the most this season
>has been the whole "Buffy saying no but not meaning
>it" running storyline. Since we now have some
>spoilers on the consequences of that, I feel more
>justified in being upset at ME's decision to use that
>as a plot point.

I'm not a big fan of the "her lips say 'no' but her eyes say 'yes.'" That's an antiquated, circa 1950s, notion.

What the lips say should be the final word -- regardless of whether or not the guy thinks he "knows" how she truly feels about him.

Alane

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