I feel sorry for both Spuffies and Bangels after all this. Jeanty, Allie, and Whedon have talked about the "respect" that they wanted to show for both fan-groupings, but I don't see much respect for either in this story. It would have been much better to have this season have a new bad guy, just as all the other seasons had a new Big Bad.
Even so, I don't get the sense that she keeps quiet to spare Spike's feelings, but more because she's embarrassed at being caught out having naughty thoughts. Totally agree. She actually stomps on his feelings more by not coming up with a better excuse for her distance. There he is trying to help her and take the time to explain things to her specifically, allowing her to use his facilities so that she'll feel more comfortable, and she can't give him the courtesy to listen to him. Instead, she imagines him being all defensive and then pouting childishly, and then he instantly falls for her slight show of affection and not!compliments.
It's even more frustratingl when you have Allie who thinks that it's "respectful" to just to say "Well, Buffy just misses sex" as though being a liberated, modern woman means that the only thing that one has on the brain is sex and when/where one is going to get it next. Her sister needed her guidance when she was a giant, could have used a real sister in that moment, but all Buffy could think of was, "Well, at least Dawn got some sex." It's very demeaning to all women to say that we are so easily distracted from life itself if we don't get sex. Why doesn't Whedon just say that Buffy's uterus is floating about her throat and that she needed Angel's cold dead seed to anchor it and make her not hysterical anymore? Argh.
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Date: 2010-10-23 06:40 pm (UTC)Even so, I don't get the sense that she keeps quiet to spare Spike's feelings, but more because she's embarrassed at being caught out having naughty thoughts.
Totally agree. She actually stomps on his feelings more by not coming up with a better excuse for her distance. There he is trying to help her and take the time to explain things to her specifically, allowing her to use his facilities so that she'll feel more comfortable, and she can't give him the courtesy to listen to him. Instead, she imagines him being all defensive and then pouting childishly, and then he instantly falls for her slight show of affection and not!compliments.
It's even more frustratingl when you have Allie who thinks that it's "respectful" to just to say "Well, Buffy just misses sex" as though being a liberated, modern woman means that the only thing that one has on the brain is sex and when/where one is going to get it next. Her sister needed her guidance when she was a giant, could have used a real sister in that moment, but all Buffy could think of was, "Well, at least Dawn got some sex." It's very demeaning to all women to say that we are so easily distracted from life itself if we don't get sex. Why doesn't Whedon just say that Buffy's uterus is floating about her throat and that she needed Angel's cold dead seed to anchor it and make her not hysterical anymore? Argh.