Of course he's way into Buffy and her tricky fighting technique :)
"Buffy's light has literally invaded their safe space in the darkness, coloring everything they see" Oh, neat!
"There's no intention to deceive Dru in the readiness with which he placates her need for reassurance. The sentiment is automatic, unthinking, because he has loved her unconditionally for more than a century." Okay, this gives me the Sprusilla feelings.
I'm a big fan of Sprusilla. Spike *gets* Dru in a way that most people/vampires don't. And Spike is insightful about everyone else, but has a total blindspot when it concerns himself lol.
The set was really dark. I tinkered with the screencaps for a looong time because of how dark they were (and I didn't have access to Photoshop).
Thanks for reading and chiming in. :) There's a dearth of meta on LJ these days.
But, yeah, I think you're right. I mean, Buffy is able to use Dru as a hostage in "Lie To Me" a little later and as a bargaining chip in "Becoming", but there's a way to see Spike's reaction to that, as this, as autopilot behavior. He's spend nearly 120 years devoted to Dru. He's ruled by his heart, sure, and to an extent by loyalty, but there are also things that are simply habits. He's not going to think of this obsession as overtaking the old one for Dru, but rather as buttressing the older one.
It's an interesting take on the self-fulfilling prophecy aspect of Drusilla leaving him. He doesn't accept that Buffy is "floating all around" him, and may never have left Drusilla. But Buffy becomes the center of his universe, eventually, proving Dru's point. What if they had stayed together and never darkened the Slayer's existence again, though? Was the bloom off the rose of their long romance? Were the thorns of the new one already set in his flesh? Would the Master have been stuck underground, if
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You ask some interesting questions. Prophecies are clever, tricky things in the Buffyverse. Is everything that happens part of "destiny" or just happenstance? Maybe Dru knew that Spike was always going to leave her - if not for Buffy, then maybe for a different Slayer, and that was why she pushed him away?
Of course, writing for a TV show as it airs, and gauging fan reaction to plan the course of the rest of the season (and beyond), the writers could very well be contradicting themselves, or accidentally hitting the mark. Either way, we'd be scrambling to come up with an in-universe explanation. :P
I honestly love obsessed!Spike at this stage, because he still hasn't realised what is happening and I believe he's sincere in his "obsession-over technique". He thinks he's just studying, he believes that. At the same time, Dru is understanding more and she asks for a confirmation. Aww. Juliet and James has the most amazing chemistry.
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"Buffy's light has literally invaded their safe space in the darkness, coloring everything they see" Oh, neat!
"There's no intention to deceive Dru in the readiness with which he placates her need for reassurance. The sentiment is automatic, unthinking, because he has loved her unconditionally for more than a century." Okay, this gives me the Sprusilla feelings.
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The set was really dark. I tinkered with the screencaps for a looong time because of how dark they were (and I didn't have access to Photoshop).
Thanks for reading and chiming in. :) There's a dearth of meta on LJ these days.
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But, yeah, I think you're right. I mean, Buffy is able to use Dru as a hostage in "Lie To Me" a little later and as a bargaining chip in "Becoming", but there's a way to see Spike's reaction to that, as this, as autopilot behavior. He's spend nearly 120 years devoted to Dru. He's ruled by his heart, sure, and to an extent by loyalty, but there are also things that are simply habits. He's not going to think of this obsession as overtaking the old one for Dru, but rather as buttressing the older one.
It's an interesting take on the self-fulfilling prophecy aspect of Drusilla leaving him. He doesn't accept that Buffy is "floating all around" him, and may never have left Drusilla. But Buffy becomes the center of his universe, eventually, proving Dru's point. What if they had stayed together and never darkened the Slayer's existence again, though? Was the bloom off the rose of their long romance? Were the thorns of the new one already set in his flesh? Would the Master have been stuck underground, if ( ... )
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Of course, writing for a TV show as it airs, and gauging fan reaction to plan the course of the rest of the season (and beyond), the writers could very well be contradicting themselves, or accidentally hitting the mark. Either way, we'd be scrambling to come up with an in-universe explanation. :P
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I honestly love obsessed!Spike at this stage, because he still hasn't realised what is happening and I believe he's sincere in his "obsession-over technique". He thinks he's just studying, he believes that. At the same time, Dru is understanding more and she asks for a confirmation. Aww. Juliet and James has the most amazing chemistry.
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Poor Dru, though. She sees everything that's going to happen, and can't do a thing about it. :/
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