Essay: The Alley-scene
28 February 2006 05:19 pmOK, I seem to have spent forever fiddling with this, and I should probably post it before I go completely off-track!
First a disclaimer of sorts. I came to fandom late (post S7, didn’t even get an LJ until post-NFA) and as such never realised how much of a bother certain scenes caused. I quite simply watched and enjoyed the show - I never knew I was supposed to hate Buffy for the alley-beating or despise Spike for the way he talked to Buffy in The Bronze balcony scene. So I was always more of a neutral party, meaning that once I got sucked into fandom and the show began to eat my brain in earnest, I was more interested in working out motivations than allocating blame. And recently, I’ve been wondering about Buffy’s mindset when she beat up Spike in ‘Dead Things’ (6.13). I know a lot of this stuff has been said before, but I wanted to get everything together in one place. And I think I came up with a few new things.
I should probably point out that I love both Buffy and Spike to little pieces, including (and because of) all their faults. I apologise for stating opinions as facts, and all the bolded quotes are from ‘Dead Things’ (6.13).
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