One detail that always stuck out to me, while Spike may have brought the handcuffs and asked 'do you trust me'... we only ever see the handcuffs used on Spike.
And I'll always think the meta got away from the writers in "Dead Things" because someone pouring out their self-hate onto another person isn't actually a metaphor for pouring out ones self-hate on another person. It is exactly what it is, there's no meta level to it even though they perhaps meant there to be because Spike's a vampire and all. It's just that is what domestic violence is -- pouring out self-loathing onto someone who will take the punishment. For me that has always been the nadir of Buffy's character arc.
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Date: 2009-08-17 06:55 pm (UTC)And I'll always think the meta got away from the writers in "Dead Things" because someone pouring out their self-hate onto another person isn't actually a metaphor for pouring out ones self-hate on another person. It is exactly what it is, there's no meta level to it even though they perhaps meant there to be because Spike's a vampire and all. It's just that is what domestic violence is -- pouring out self-loathing onto someone who will take the punishment. For me that has always been the nadir of Buffy's character arc.