Buffy rewatch: 3.08. Lovers Walk

[boot_the_grime]

This season so far has been rather lackluster, but this episode is a big improvement. It used the magical trick for making everything more exciting: Spike is back - if just for one episode. It's a very funny episode that first introduces us to Pathetic!Drunk!Spike, but it’s also the episode with a lot of relationship pain. Spike comes back

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[diebirchen]

I'm pretty sure she was impaled on a piece of rebar in the building, not pike, which is a weapon.

[boot_the_grime]

Thanks for that - not being a native speaker sometimes shows, especially with the name of objects I don't normally talk about!

[diebirchen]

I'll be glad to help when you have questions. Really!

[itsnotmymind]

But soulless vampires don't have the same ideas about consent that we do (see also: Angel/Darla in Reprise), so it might work on Dru.

When I saw this episode the first time, I was disturbed when Spike announced that he was going to torture Dru until she liked him again. But after seeing later Buffy and Angel episodes, I realized that that was just the way vampires are. But that does raise a lot of questions about whether the show is sending any messages about domestic abuse in real life, and if so, what kind of messages (see: the entire controversy about Buffy/Spike from midway through S6 onwards).