Buffy season six: Admit it peeps, a woman taking sexual control threatens you, doesn't it?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 7, 2007 23:28
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Buffy shagged Spike for her own reasons, to confront her own 'demons' if you will. She used Spike.
Some on this board have said that it wasn't 'Buffy' to them anymore. Like the whole show turned to crap or something because Buffy was dealing with her issues in a way that involved her using sex. Is she supposed to be sweet little innocent Buffy forever? BTW, she lost it with a vamp in season 2....
I pose that most (GUYS) uncomfortability with this season stems from fear of true equality of the sexes!
Take your best shot Chrisisall
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See. I knew this was too frightening a topic to take on.
Chrisisall
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See my complaint with that relationship was that Spike turned into a whiney little cry baby. Man I hated him for the longest time after that! It wasn't until the last half of the final season that I enjoyed anything to do with his character. From the "Big Bad" to the Big Baby? WTF!!!!!!!!!!!
OK rant over now.
Kelkhil
The Shirtless Forsaken
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Buffy: "Then why do I let him do those things to me?"
Sound like someone in control to you Chris?
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My problem with season six is this: Buffy turned into an outright bitca. This has nothing to do with her having sexual control; I have absolutely no problem with that. Where my beef comes in is that she didn't want to take responsiblity for her destructive behavior toward herself and others. Buffy's decisions, along with those of the other Scoobies, often had horrible consequences on the people around them (Spike getting the crap kicked out of him, Dawn feeling neglected, the wedding, Willow's addiction). It's one thing to screw up, but another not to take responsibility for your mistakes.
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also don't forget "when she was bad", she was feeling unsure of herself (due to dying) so she made herself feel stronger by asserting her sexual power over xander and angel
it was totally in character.
I'd never really thought of that as people's problem with the season and the relationship, but I think you may be on to something chris 
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Originally posted by SerenityinScotland:
Buffy: "Then why do I let him do those things to me?"
Sound like someone in control to you Chris?
well she obviously wasn't that sucessful with the taking control, but that was the idea wasn't it?
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Quote:She phrased it that way to take blame off of herself. Spike only did what she allowed him to do, and there she went wild. She was in control of what she did, but not of the urges that drove her...it was an addiction, and one she had not so much to lose by exploring it; she'd already been dead.
Originally posted by SerenityinScotland:
Buffy: "Then why do I let him do those things to me?"
Sound like someone in control to you Chris?
My take Chrisisall
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Quote:One person on here who shall remain nameless said when he saw Smashed, he knew he'd never see another good Buffy episode again...ooohhh, what a dirty girl, expressing her feelings of no-feeling with wanton sexuality....
Originally posted by charliethebloody:
I'd never really thought of that as people's problem with the season and the relationship, but I think you may be on to something chris
I had absolutely no problem with it, aside from feeling bad for Buffy for what drove her to it. But it always sounded wrong to me when peeps used that inner journey of hers as a point where everything changed...you know, sorta smacked of the puritanical.
No Puritan Chrisisall
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Reckon you're probably pretty close to the mark there Chris, but as everyone loves a devil's advocate...
Buffy hated herself for sleeping with Spike in the first place (in 'Smashed' where she undoubtably had control) so to make it easier she let Spike control her, not the other way round. See 'As You Were', where Spike doesn't take no for an answer despite Buffy's persistent refusals and eventual relucant give. Do you think Buffy was in control there?
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