You're absolutely right. God, you're so right. She really did fuck him up bad. She just ruined him, made him believe that that's all he is, all he'll ever be, and you're right -- that *is* worse than the attempted rape ever could be. She made him believe that he is worthless for anything other than a quick fuck, that it's all he'll ever be good for. She'll recover from the AR. He might not ever recover from what she's done to him.
But the thing is, the reason why I can still look at Buffy and feel terrible for her, is that I really do get the feeling from that last scene, from her reactions to certain words and phrases of his, that she *knows* it now. She knows that she's to blame for all of his suffering, and the tears on her face in the end of that episode prove to me.
Okay. Going home now to watch again. Obsession rears its ugly head once more.
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Date: 2002-10-02 02:04 pm (UTC)But the thing is, the reason why I can still look at Buffy and feel terrible for her, is that I really do get the feeling from that last scene, from her reactions to certain words and phrases of his, that she *knows* it now. She knows that she's to blame for all of his suffering, and the tears on her face in the end of that episode prove to me.
Okay. Going home now to watch again. Obsession rears its ugly head once more.