burneddownthegym:slayerdaily:6.13 Dead Things | 7.22 Chosen#alright look i’m stupid for posting this
burneddownthegym:slayerdaily:6.13 Dead Things | 7.22 Chosen#alright look i’m stupid for posting this in the middle of the night but i made it and now i have a lot to say so #here we go #so many people really misinterpret the latter scene and take it way too literally #and not enough people include the first line but i feel like that ‘i have to do this’ is the crux of the entire thing #like not only does it make it even more obvious that the scenes directly parallel each other #but the context of it matters #because buffy is so deeply good down to the very core of her person #and spike not having a soul can’t always understand it #can’t understand why she would need to do something just because it’s right even if it’s not fair and not fair to her #he can only think it wasn’t her fault so she shouldn’t suffer for it and that’s really the depth of the divide between them #but her saying he doesn’t love her her not believing it didn’t make it any less true #because he did love her and he loved her enough to get the soul and that’s what brought him here #to be someone she could be proud of that would do something just because it’s right even if it isn’t fair #that she really did love him here because of that and him saying she doesn’t doesn’t make it any less true #and as much as i hate jw i’ve never gotten his direction for this scene out of my head #“be proud of him love him when you say you love him love her when you say she doesn’t love you” #that’s the core of it for me #not to mention how hard it is for buffy to say #i can’t believe knowing her character that she would say that if she didn’t really mean it #not to be kind and not even knowing he was going to die #if she was just proud of him that’s all she would have said #alright and now i’m done kldfajskdlfas #on my bullshit tonight (by @saraheliza ) -- source link
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