I did, but before I saw the episode...so I was waiting for it. ;-) And you're right, it is more logical.
This actually underlines a weakness in Whedon's writing - he writes like many daytime soap opera and comic writers write - in that they will often force plot points on the story with little regard to what the characters would actually do. They are more concerned with either shocking the audience, building to a specific plot twist, or staying true to a theme or a romantic/emotional arc than what the characters would do. It's loose writing. (shrugs). Not that Spike wouldn't have forced himself on Buffy at some point - he would have. Definitely. They'd built that part well. But how they filmed and wrote the actual attack or scene does not quite work - it takes you out of the story. Took me years to figure out why I cringe during that sequence and did not over similar bits in other shows - used to think it was how I felt about Spike - but no, it's how it was written and filmed. They wrote and filmed it too fast and really badly. (OR in daytime soap opera fashion. I've seen that scene in many daytime soaps and filmed in similar fashion. We call it the "very special episode of the week" or "the episode everyone will be talking about tomorrow" episode. )
Whedon reminds me of soap opera writers - they have brilliant episodes here and there (I've seen daytime soaps try to do stuff like The Body and Restless as well - although they don't quite pull it off as well as Whedon did, Whedon is a better writer..in that regard), but their writing tends to be largely off the cuff or loosely written and motivated purely by emotion. Logic rarely enters into it.
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I did, but before I saw the episode...so I was waiting for it. ;-)
And you're right, it is more logical.
This actually underlines a weakness in Whedon's writing - he writes like many daytime soap opera and comic writers write - in that they will often force plot points on the story with little regard to what the characters would actually do. They are more concerned with either shocking the audience, building to a specific plot twist, or staying true to a theme or a romantic/emotional arc than what the characters would do. It's loose writing. (shrugs). Not that Spike wouldn't have forced himself on Buffy at some point - he would have. Definitely. They'd built that part well. But how they filmed and wrote the actual attack or scene does not quite work - it takes you out of the story. Took me years to figure out why I cringe during that sequence and did not over similar bits in other shows - used to think it was how I felt about Spike - but no, it's how it was written and filmed. They wrote and filmed it too fast and really badly. (OR in daytime soap opera fashion. I've seen that scene in many daytime soaps and filmed in similar fashion. We call it the "very special episode of the week" or "the episode everyone will be talking about tomorrow" episode. )
Whedon reminds me of soap opera writers - they have brilliant episodes here and there (I've seen daytime soaps try to do stuff like The Body and Restless as well - although they don't quite pull it off as well as Whedon did, Whedon is a better writer..in that regard), but their writing tends to be largely off the cuff or loosely written and motivated purely by emotion. Logic rarely enters into it.