Buffy and, errr...Spike (Spoilers if you ain't seen season 6)
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Thursday, August 31, 2006 22:46
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Hey purplebelly, can you expand on your post? I'm trying to figure out what you're saying (Xander's response to Spuffy is a typical response that a straight guy makes when he finds out his best friend is gay?) but I'm coming up blank. Although you have intrigued me enough to want to watch some BtVS tonight.
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
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You know, Buffy shagging Spike is about as expected as Xander shagging the newly outed football jock at S.H.
The 'It can't BE' moment.
Vampophobe Chrisisall
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Hei, RugBug. I have problems expanding the idea, because it's only vaguely formed in my own mind; to be honest, I'm not enough into BtVS to want to do the research 
The disgusted Xander I have in mind appears at his confrontation with Anya and (Good enough for Buffy) Spike outside the Magic Box.
The central approach is to say that what is significant about Buffy and Spike is that they use their bodies to effect violence and this both enables them to communicate with violence and gives them a reason to communicate on a sexual plane. In the US today this similarity in the level of violence and potential violence is most commonly manifest among relatively young males - although using sex to mitigate violence might be more common among bonobos 
Thank you for being intrigued - that's the highest compliment - please share any further thoughts.
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BTW, y'all have seen this, right?
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=12580
The man's phenominal.
Art appreciation Chrisisall
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So, I watched Entropy again (well, most of it. I skipped through some of the Trio stuff). Xander's response is "I don't want to know this" and walks off. So, I can see how you got the guy learning his best friend is gay thing.
But really I think it's more of finding out someone you love has a huge, unpleasant secret thing. Like finding out our perfect parent is having an affair. It just obliterates your understanding of that person...and possibly your little world. Buffy sleeping with Spike IS pretty wrong. There is nothing good about that relationship (well, the sex was hot...or so it seemed, but even then it was still way twisted). She knows it and yet she still went to him, time and again. Xander, who has always had a problem with the harmless vampires and who is reeling from Spanya (heh), finds out Buffy, the heroine who has always made the hard decisions, isn't as strong and upstanding as he thought she was. "I don't want to know this" is a perfectly legitimate and expected response. It may not be the most accepting, but it's human.
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
BTW, y'all have seen this, right?
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=12580
The man's phenominal.
Art appreciation Chrisisall
thanks for the compliments, dude..
m(lurker)phillips
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