Via Kerk, an excellent meta post using Fool for Love to map out the Buffy/Spike relationship:

Q: so my question for you is do you see that any one episode cleanly predicts the path spike and buffy eventually go down together? and if there isn’t, how does that deviation from the pattern affect the reading of the spuffy dynamic, if it does at all?

I've been meaning to write *something* about the whole Harvey Weinstein thing. There are a hundred things I could link you to. However, the thing that I can't get out of my head is this bit of dialogue from 'The Initiative' (slightly edited):

Parker : [Laughs] oh, yeah. The word is stamina. I mean, definitely a bunny in the sack, but later on, ( Read more... )

One reason I love BtVS so much is that Buffy gets a happy ending. She wins. I've not seen Dollhouse, but on his other shows winning doesn't enter into it. Angel will be forever fighting. Mal only wishes to keep flying.

But Buffy wins. And there's something else I've realised too. Putting it under a cut, so as not to take up all your flist.

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Read about the latest issue of s8, and went running into the arms of my favourite Buffy vids. And you get links, even though I'm sure you know them already. :)

Vow by sdwolfpup.
Summary: Buffy kicks ass. (It's only one minute long, yet packs in so much. Even if you're run off your feet, make time for this one.

Bachelorette by obsessive24Summary: In the shape of a ( Read more... )

Written by xlivvielockex. (Context here.)

We believe in the Spike Almighty, creator of cheekbones and shagging. And in Buffy, his only love, The Slayer, who was created by some shadowmen who were dicking around with magics that they did not themselves understand; who suffered under Glory, died twice, but was only buried once. That she ascended into Heaven, and ( Read more... )

First though, I must wish the Happiest of Birthdays to earth_vexer! May you continue to vex the earth for many, many years to come! :)

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But! The Queen of Polls, gabrielleabelle, made a poll about which show is more adult/mature/dark - Buffy or Angel? Now it's tempting to go for Angel, but otoh there's few things as dark as S6 of BtVS... So, instead of doing the poll, I ( Read more... )

Don't know why, but this has been going round in my head recently. It's very obvious, but it gave me insight into Willow (which is a good thing), and how she grows etc. ( Read more... )

( All my meta, in one place! )

So, I watched School Hard on Spike's birthday, and then (thank you molly_may for the link - I’ve read it before, but couldn’t remember where) read this very excellent review by Alira.

She’s rather scathing towards Angel, and towards the end has this to say (I’d question the ‘trustworthy’ part myself! *g*):

Buffy learns that Spike’s playful, resourceful, ( Read more... )

This was supposed to be a quick run-through a la my review of ‘Shadow Puppets’, with a few thoughts re. Spike’s arc (and Beck) at the end. And then... meta ate my head. Again. So... it’s kinda long. And I’m not sure I’m actually saying anything original. But I had to write it, so there you go ( Read more... )