Buffy Viewing Update

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So Spike and Buffy beat eachother up then have passionate sex while a building collapses on top of them. Kinky. What's interesting is this thing that now Spike can hurt Buffy even though his chip is working "perfectly." He says "you've come back wrong." Can this be true? Is it perhaps that she's gone against nature in coming back from whereever it was she was that she thought was heaven...? I love this show.

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I am so glad you love it - I'd be disappointed in my own judgement if you'd turned out to hate it!

So, what did you make of OMWF and Tabula Rasa?

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Oh, OMWF was absolutely brilliant. I loved the way they all revealed their deepest feelings (once more with feeling of course). And the whole postmodernity of it - "did you find yourself suddenly breaking into song? It must be a spell!" And Spike going "oh bugger it" at the end and stomping out of the group "kumbya" Tabula Rasa was mostly hilarious, then surprisingly tough at the end - a necessary transition from OMWF, I think. I was worried that the writers were going to cop out by making them forget everything they had learned in OMWF, but of course the show is too good for that...
Good grief, if I didn't love it by now, I wouldn't be at season six and unable to stop watching!! It's fabulous. I'm a complete Buffy convert, don't worry.

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Somehow I always felt you might take to it! Season 6 splits fans - some hate it because it is so dark; others (myself included) love it for the exploration of complex issues - to me the whole thing is a metaphor for clinical depression and the process of recovery. Plus, naked Spike. *g*