Eh.. this dialogue has also been used in the Buffy/Angel series, and various other genres with a villain and a hero giving each other meaningful looks of UST. It's..I'm not sure it is cliche or just a well-loved trope?
Dru to Spike (regarding Buffy): Why can't you kill her?
And...
Spike to Angelus (regarding Buffy): Kill her. Stop playing games with her.
And..oh so many others which I can't think of off the top of my head.
There's just something cool about a villain and a hero being in love. It's the ultimate star-crossed lover's romance. It can never work. One would have to change - the villain or the hero. In some of the Arthurian Legends...Morgraine and Arthur have an UST relationship, as do Merlin and Nimue/Viviaine.
That's where the trope - the femme fatale with the heart of gold comes from, and the rogue with a heart of gold does. The villain redeemed by love.
This is admittedly a huge story kink of mine. (Well with the exception of Doctor Who.)
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Date: 2013-06-02 02:34 pm (UTC)Dru to Spike (regarding Buffy): Why can't you kill her?
And...
Spike to Angelus (regarding Buffy): Kill her. Stop playing games with her.
And..oh so many others which I can't think of off the top of my head.
There's just something cool about a villain and a hero being in love.
It's the ultimate star-crossed lover's romance. It can never work. One would have to change - the villain or the hero. In some of the Arthurian Legends...Morgraine and Arthur have an UST relationship, as do Merlin and Nimue/Viviaine.
That's where the trope - the femme fatale with the heart of gold comes from, and the rogue with a heart of gold does. The villain redeemed by love.
This is admittedly a huge story kink of mine. (Well with the exception of Doctor Who.)