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Quote: "Dancing is a vertical representation of horizontal desires."
Updating late at night. Again.
Just caught the end of DBZ on the Toonami midnight run and realized I'd miscalculated when the new eps would start, and thus had missed Vegita's big death scene. -_-() sigh... I'll catch it next time around... they play them like five or ten times befoer they get new ones. And I think he's going to get wished back by the dragonballs next episode anyway, so he won't be gone long.
Onto the meat of this post... I stayed up after everyone had gone to bed to watch my recorded version of Once More With Feeling, in lieu of seeing Grave earlier in the evening. I just had this sudden desire to see it again before th premier, especially with my mind filled with NA and Entropy and SR and Tara and Africa...
And I realized, while I watched it, that I was struck by how incredibly romantic it was.
In Smashed and all the episodes after, scenes between Spike and Buffy shouted "sex!" and "hurt!". But this episode, every scene between them, every look at camera trick and snippet of dialogue or verse... it fairly screamed "ROMANCE!" The way they were in his song, how he sang and what he sang... and Buffy's reaction to what he sang...
...How she tried to hurt him in self-defense when he brought her the dancing toy-demon as peace gesture, and how he reacted bitterly and defensively in kind...
...How even when he felt burned he was still drawn always, always back to helping her.
...how she sang and danced her pain and then he cut in, caught, her, looked into her eyes and gave her a reason for living that none of the others in her life could...
... how he touched her hair and she just stared at him...
... how she followed him out back, and he tried to obey what he thought were her wishes by giving her a way out...
... how the music rose and they kissed _each_other_, together, not one kissed one or the other way around.
... how the music crescendoed and the curtain of the musical closed on their real FIRST KISS.
My God, what were they writing if not pure romance?
Could it have been anything else? In a musical that ends in a passionate first kiss? THe actors certainly behaved as though it was. JM played a man in love and SMG played a woman falling in love.
And that episode was written by JOSS. The MASTER of Buffyverse. The show has to be leading eventually toward a real Buffy/Spike romance, or no romance at all. Regardless of whatever came after, their first kiss wasn't about sex, or loss. It was about wanting the other person for a long time until that desire was pouring so strongly from both of them that it culminated in a classic romantic movie kiss.
Oh god I can't wait until this season. These characters are so deeply in love, Joss himself showed us them falling in love, and though I know its still a painful journey to come, I'm completely, totally, and undeniably sure that it will end in something great, whatever that may be.
Updating late at night. Again.
Just caught the end of DBZ on the Toonami midnight run and realized I'd miscalculated when the new eps would start, and thus had missed Vegita's big death scene. -_-() sigh... I'll catch it next time around... they play them like five or ten times befoer they get new ones. And I think he's going to get wished back by the dragonballs next episode anyway, so he won't be gone long.
Onto the meat of this post... I stayed up after everyone had gone to bed to watch my recorded version of Once More With Feeling, in lieu of seeing Grave earlier in the evening. I just had this sudden desire to see it again before th premier, especially with my mind filled with NA and Entropy and SR and Tara and Africa...
And I realized, while I watched it, that I was struck by how incredibly romantic it was.
In Smashed and all the episodes after, scenes between Spike and Buffy shouted "sex!" and "hurt!". But this episode, every scene between them, every look at camera trick and snippet of dialogue or verse... it fairly screamed "ROMANCE!" The way they were in his song, how he sang and what he sang... and Buffy's reaction to what he sang...
...How she tried to hurt him in self-defense when he brought her the dancing toy-demon as peace gesture, and how he reacted bitterly and defensively in kind...
...How even when he felt burned he was still drawn always, always back to helping her.
...how she sang and danced her pain and then he cut in, caught, her, looked into her eyes and gave her a reason for living that none of the others in her life could...
... how he touched her hair and she just stared at him...
... how she followed him out back, and he tried to obey what he thought were her wishes by giving her a way out...
... how the music rose and they kissed _each_other_, together, not one kissed one or the other way around.
... how the music crescendoed and the curtain of the musical closed on their real FIRST KISS.
My God, what were they writing if not pure romance?
Could it have been anything else? In a musical that ends in a passionate first kiss? THe actors certainly behaved as though it was. JM played a man in love and SMG played a woman falling in love.
And that episode was written by JOSS. The MASTER of Buffyverse. The show has to be leading eventually toward a real Buffy/Spike romance, or no romance at all. Regardless of whatever came after, their first kiss wasn't about sex, or loss. It was about wanting the other person for a long time until that desire was pouring so strongly from both of them that it culminated in a classic romantic movie kiss.
Oh god I can't wait until this season. These characters are so deeply in love, Joss himself showed us them falling in love, and though I know its still a painful journey to come, I'm completely, totally, and undeniably sure that it will end in something great, whatever that may be.
