Stop Me

[itsnotmymind]

An exchange from Buffy vs. Dracula:

Buffy: Stay away from me.
Dracula: Are you afraid I will bite you? Slayer, that's why you came.
Buffy: No. Last night ... it's not gonna happen again.
Dracula: Stop me. Stake me.
Buffy: I...Any minute now.

“Stop me.” Shades of Buffy/Spike?

A Buffy/Spike shipper who had more sympathy for Spike in S6 once suggested, discussing Wrecked, that maybe people thought Spike had power by his sexiness, and mocked the idea. But as I have discussed before, it's not sexiness. It's shame.

Something interesting that I've never seen anyone comment on: In Beneath You, when Spike starts taunting Buffy, goes into vamp face, claims he hasn’t changed, he references the balcony. Seeing Red isn’t as awful as Dead Things, for me, because while Spike tries to overpower Buffy physically in SR, he is not playing on her shame. He’s not using her self-loathing.

Comments

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Yeah I always find Spike creepier and darker in Dead Things, he is actively playing on Buffy's self-loathing and manipulating her when he asks what her friends would think if they knew etc, whereas Seeing Red didn't feel nearly as calculated, even though it was of course still horrible to watch

[itsnotmymind.livejournal.com]

I sometimes wonder if I am the only fan who had more sympathy for Spike in Seeing Red than in Dead Things, and for Buffy in Dead Things than in Seeing Red. But yeah, Spike's attempted rape of Buffy was terrible, but also 100% impulsive. Balcony scene not so much.