Fool For Love
Nov. 5th, 2011 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightI went with Fool For Love in the end. It really is a brilliant episode.
I know I'm probably not supposed to think that any more, or I'm supposed to hate Spike because of it, or something. But I do, and I don't. I think the only difference is that, watching it this time, just post him killing Nikki, I didn't feel sorry for him at all when Buffy told him he was beneath her.
Apart from that, though, Spike clearly believes everything he tells Buffy, even if some of it was pretty arrogant and stuff he couldn't really know, and that it resonates with her is very clear. Of course she understands that the day might come when she's tired enough to want the uncertainty to stop. Of course she does.
Other stuff: the flashback party scene with William the Bloody Awful Poet is teeth-grittingly bad. It doesn't look at all like a Victorian society party, but more like a saloon/whorehouse setting in an old Western. Cecily's accent still amuses me no end, though. She keeps going all northern, and I keep expecting her father, who must be some self-made Northern industrialist, to burst into the room going, "Eee, Cecily, lass, there's trouble up at t'mill." :snorfle: Dru's seduction of poor William is perfect, though. She knows exactly what to say to him.
Speaking of Dru, I remember listening to the episode commentary by Doug Petrie and him saying that after Spike kills the Chinese slayer is when he and Dru have sex for the first time. It seems a little unlikely - she put him off for twenty years? - but after watching it again, that is probably what we're supposed to think.
I still adore the Fanged Four slo-mo power walk, and love the porch scene to pieces.
I know I'm probably not supposed to think that any more, or I'm supposed to hate Spike because of it, or something. But I do, and I don't. I think the only difference is that, watching it this time, just post him killing Nikki, I didn't feel sorry for him at all when Buffy told him he was beneath her.
Apart from that, though, Spike clearly believes everything he tells Buffy, even if some of it was pretty arrogant and stuff he couldn't really know, and that it resonates with her is very clear. Of course she understands that the day might come when she's tired enough to want the uncertainty to stop. Of course she does.
Other stuff: the flashback party scene with William the Bloody Awful Poet is teeth-grittingly bad. It doesn't look at all like a Victorian society party, but more like a saloon/whorehouse setting in an old Western. Cecily's accent still amuses me no end, though. She keeps going all northern, and I keep expecting her father, who must be some self-made Northern industrialist, to burst into the room going, "Eee, Cecily, lass, there's trouble up at t'mill." :snorfle: Dru's seduction of poor William is perfect, though. She knows exactly what to say to him.
Speaking of Dru, I remember listening to the episode commentary by Doug Petrie and him saying that after Spike kills the Chinese slayer is when he and Dru have sex for the first time. It seems a little unlikely - she put him off for twenty years? - but after watching it again, that is probably what we're supposed to think.
I still adore the Fanged Four slo-mo power walk, and love the porch scene to pieces.