Comments | angearia: more than a killer, more than a monster

angearia

more than a killer, more than a monster

Nov 01, 2012 05:33

I haven't written meta in ages, but I was watching a Spuffy vid and the imagery of Spike in chains and Buffy freeing him gave me ~feels.
( ~it makes the world go round~ )

buffy, spike, meta

Comments 11

kikimay November 1 2012, 10:06:48 UTC

And that's why Buffy Summers IS love! <3

I adore S7, even if the second half, after Showtime, could be better written and without the stupid Angel parts. But, still, it's a great season and it's all about the others (Dawn, Willow, the potentials, Spike ...) At the beginning of the season, Buffy has "mom's hair" and, during the season, she really behaves like a matriarch.
And a big mother should always trust her soul, and her companion (Spike) in order to save the kids.

shapinglight November 1 2012, 10:15:58 UTC

Really lovely.

theramble November 1 2012, 11:18:07 UTC

i love this! /deep comment not

slaymesoftly November 1 2012, 11:54:03 UTC

Very thoughtful and well done. Miss you!

local_max November 1 2012, 12:21:16 UTC

Riiiight. So, in season six the chains come off, Daddy leaves, no Council, no demonic or god big bad. Spike can hit Buffy. Amy gets out of her cage. Magic gets psychadelic/mind expanding. The tower comes down, then the house in Smashed, then the Magic Box; hell is being forever trapped in your house against your will. But ah, Buffy chooses to stay when Halfrek undoes the spell, and Buffy could continue using Spike, or could feed her friends to a demon but she doesn't.

Sidebar: I just watched The Shining last night and it is not just Normal Again that resonates with it -- OAFA and Hell's Bells both contain nightmares of confinement, and domestic abuse and control abuse everywhere and people falling into old patterns.

So, Buffy and Willow and Spike especially get unchained, and Buffy and Willow (with some help in the latter case) stop themselves. They indulge in the darkness and come out on the other side, with only each other and the faith and hope that they can rebuild their lives somehow sustaining them, like Danny getting out of the ( ... )

kikimay November 1 2012, 13:15:26 UTC

Buffy doesn't think she's better than everyone else -- she knows she's better in some respects (slayer and all), but she doesn't think that she is so exceptional, that her ability to touch the dark and bring it into the light is unique. She even can't be unique totally - because if no one could ever do what Buffy did, then all the empowered girls are going to screw up. But basically, Buffy knows they can do it because she did it -- and her faith that they and Spike and Willow can make it becomes her faith that she can do it. She has returned from the labyrinth bearing not the exit to the labyrinth -- everyone's is different -- but the belief that it can be escaped, that the essential human nature when freed from restraints is, or can be, good. And the guy who wanted to be the hero of the story is there to accompany her sister, and the witch who suffered so for breaking the rules of nature finds a way to tweak them for the better, and she brings her guy into the light. And the town falls, and she smiles.Don't mind me, I'm just having ( ... )