And now it's time for Wrecked! Which everyone kinda hates, so, please take this quiz and enjoy an image of shirtless Spike at the end of it!( Poll behind the cut )
1. I think this episode is underrated because it has one of my favorite things in the Buffy verse, lots of Nekid Spike. Yes, I'm shallow. 2. I never thought of the alcohol thing, but that would have worked much better. But I chose the power answer. 3. Definately luring. 4. Because Rack just DGAF about his decor. 5. There is no good answer. 6. Garlic. Pft. Might spoil the mood is all. 7. BUFFY The other night was the most perverse, degrading experience of my life. SPIKE Yeah. Me too. It's the delivery, he says that "me too" so fondly and with such affection and pride. Love it. 8. Nekid Spike! 9. I gave it a six. Did you not see Nekid Spike?
Agreeing with molly_may that I really loved the Spuffy scenes and the morning-after is one of my favourites, the problem is the second-hand embarassment I get with just how heavily they push that Willow is an addict now, even right down to acting too wild after getting her fix and getting Dawn into a car accident. (Alyson's acting in that scene with the out of control giggling just makes me cringe everytime). The first half wasn't so bad with Rack being very well-acted, and I didn't mind the initial drug trip *that much*, even if it did kind of screw up Willow's arc. It's when they introduce all of the after-school-special elements with the sage, the car accident etc that it really loses me
the second-hand embarassment I get with just how heavily they push that Willow is an addict now
The cringing! Soooo true. Even with relatively weak episodes/moments I don't think there's anything in the show that makes me cringe as hard as "stoned Willow drives the car."
I don't remember having a particular problem with this episode, actually? I found it difficult to watch in terms of...whatever the amped-up term for second-hand embarrassment is, but that's exactly the response I think the show was going for? Rack's sleaze, Amy's attempt to suck Willow into her own spiral, Willow's eagerness for a fix - it's a deliberate attempt to create an unpleasant atmosphere. So I wouldn't call it an unsuccessful episode, even though it's not one I enjoy very much.
*My big asterisk is that I have serious reservations about using something that's been a metaphor for lesbianism becoming a metaphor for drug use, given The World. But that's not on this episode specifically, it's a season arc problem.
6. I liked the garlic as a touch. Something she has no reason to believe works against vampires representing her unwillingness to face whatever it is she has going on with Spike.
I have serious reservations about using something that's been a metaphor for lesbianism becoming a metaphor for drug use
Agreed. I do think that if this particular episode hadn't been so clumsy... we might have still been able to see it as being about Willow making stupid choices and therefore screwing up her relationship with both magic and with Tara. But playing it as pure addiction, as it ends up being here... no.
I do think this is one of those episodes that played worse in real time, not knowing where it was going, than when you watch it now, with a sense for where it's going to go. I remember vividly getting online to RANT RIGHTEOUSLY to my Buffy-watching pals about how much I hate-hate-hated this episode... but then I liked the Dark Willow storyline enough that I kind of retroactively forgave Wrecked a little bit. In my head, it was like ARRRRGH I CAN'T STAND WHERE THEY'RE GOING WITH THIS, and then, once Willow goes on her vengeance rampage, I was more like, oh, so that's where they were going with that. Okay.
About the garlic garlands, I think that she's just declaring to herself her intention of shutting out/refusing Spike, and also there may be a component of lady-that-does-protest-too-much in it.
Good point. It's a way of saying "I don't want him to come around again, except maybe I do." If she were serious, she would be finding some other way of casting the disinvite spell.
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2. I never thought of the alcohol thing, but that would have worked much better. But I chose the power answer.
3. Definately luring.
4. Because Rack just DGAF about his decor.
5. There is no good answer.
6. Garlic. Pft. Might spoil the mood is all.
7. BUFFY The other night was the most perverse, degrading experience of my life. SPIKE Yeah. Me too.
It's the delivery, he says that "me too" so fondly and with such affection and pride. Love it.
8. Nekid Spike!
9. I gave it a six. Did you not see Nekid Spike?
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The cringing! Soooo true. Even with relatively weak episodes/moments I don't think there's anything in the show that makes me cringe as hard as "stoned Willow drives the car."
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*My big asterisk is that I have serious reservations about using something that's been a metaphor for lesbianism becoming a metaphor for drug use, given The World. But that's not on this episode specifically, it's a season arc problem.
6. I liked the garlic as a touch. Something she has no reason to believe works against vampires representing her unwillingness to face whatever it is she has going on with Spike.
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Agreed. I do think that if this particular episode hadn't been so clumsy... we might have still been able to see it as being about Willow making stupid choices and therefore screwing up her relationship with both magic and with Tara. But playing it as pure addiction, as it ends up being here... no.
I do think this is one of those episodes that played worse in real time, not knowing where it was going, than when you watch it now, with a sense for where it's going to go. I remember vividly getting online to RANT RIGHTEOUSLY to my Buffy-watching pals about how much I hate-hate-hated this episode... but then I liked the Dark Willow storyline enough that I kind of retroactively forgave Wrecked a little bit. In my head, it was like ARRRRGH I CAN'T STAND WHERE THEY'RE GOING WITH THIS, and then, once Willow goes on her vengeance rampage, I was more like, oh, so that's where they were going with that. Okay.
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