We might get spooked out by the thought of vampires, but the idea of a man insisting he loves a woman while assaulting her will always be infinitely more terrifying. And that’s so much scarier, because that’s the kind of evil we all see every day. So when Spike assaults Buffy, that’s not vampire-evil. He doesn’t seem capable on any level of caring about anything or anyone the way–even considering this scene–we’re meant to believe he cares about Buffy, or Drusilla before her. Even Angel, in the episodes when he loses his soul, doesn’t just turn mean. Spike’s relationship with emotions always felt different than that of other vampires. What makes this scene really unusual, though, is that the evilness Spike shows in this moment is not regular, removed, soulless vampire evil. Between not eating to stay lean while his hair was. Joss doesn’t do anything with half measures. Maybe Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans knew how James Marsters suffered for the role of Spike but I had no idea. And also give Spike a really good reason to try to reform and try to become better and try to get a soul. And I think he wanted to reinforce that in the most dramatic way imaginable. Joss was constantly trying to remind the audience, “Look, guys, I know he’s charming, but he’s evil.” He’s a bad boyfriend. Spike was evil, and I think a lot of people forgot about that. ![]() He says he was “curled up in a fetal position in between takes.” It was “unbelievably hard,” but he makes it clear he’s still glad they did the scene. Marsters calls the day they shot the scene the hardest day of his professional life. And so the audience, especially the female audience, they are not superheroes, but they are Buffy. That’s the vicarious experience that we’re offering. ![]() My argument was that, actually, when anyone is watching Buffy, they are Buffy. The thinking I think was that since Buffy was a superhero and completely capable of pushing Spike through a wall that it was kind of the same thing, and you could flip the sexes. 16 hours ago &0183 &32 Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a TV series that was based on the 1992 movie starring Kristy Swanson as Buffy Summers. It doesn’t really matter how strong she is, or if his brain chip will hold him back Spike’s intention in the scene is terrifying. Not just because Buffy, in the scene, is injured. The vampires in the canonical Buffyverse differ greatly from those that appeared in the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 5 Times We Felt Bad For Angel. In switching the genders of the characters, though, the result is pure horror. Angel and Spike loomed above him, game faces on and growling. And so she tried to do that, and really kind of jumped the guy, and he had to push her off and say, “No, you have to leave now.” In the case of that scene, one of the female writers, in college, had been broken up with by her boyfriend, and decided that if she went over to his place, and if they made love one more time, everything would be fine.
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