But on the other hand, making it rape made it explicitly a bad thing done by the man in Spike and not the monster.
Oh, I always interpreted the attempted rape as purposefully saying something about the man, not the monster. The monster was defanged a lont time before. It was the man-Spike who lacked the tools to be a decent man, even when he was motivated to be good. Buffy didn't make him want to be a monster. Because of his feelings for Buffy, Spike felt like a man when he was feeling good about himself, and felt like actual manhood was just out of his grasp when he wasn't. I understand why the betrayal had to happen at the man/woman level rather than the vamp/slayer level of their relationship.
Jessica,
Upstream, you mentioned something about the attempted rape scene, and that it was the worst directed scene in the history of the show, or something like that. How so? I know nothing about film. I like what I like and that's it. What were some of the problems you saw in the direction?
Well first off, they were using the Shaky Handheld Camera of MASSIVE TRAUMA as a cheap and easy shortcut to "realism." Second, I didn't recognize either of the characters. It was like they'd filmed SMG and JM workshopping a scene from another show (possibly a training video for "Directing 101: How To Film A Really Clichéd Rape Scene"). The delivery was just...off. All of which added up to my having zero visceral reaction to the scene, and instead being more annoyed by it than anything else.
Entropy wins the prize for Worst Directed Episode, though, hands-down. If the DVD commentary revealed that they'd handed that ep over to a high-school A/V club, it wouldn't surprise me one bit.
Entropy wins the prize for Worst Directed Episode, though, hands-down.
I don't even remember that episode, or what season it was in. I'm assuming S6 or S7, because I'm pretty good on the ep titles from S1-5.
S6, the one with the hidden cameras and Spike/Anya sex in the Magic Box.
I remember it's right after Hell's Belles, and that Anya becomes a vengeance demon again.
That is it.
Entropy
is a Season Six episode. It came right after
Normal Again
and before
Seeing Red.
I think it's the first time we see Anya after
Hell's Bells.
She's trying to exact vengeance on Xander, and ends up sleeping with Spike at the magic shop. Everyone sees it, thanks to the cameras the nerds planted everywhere. At the end of it, Tara comes to Willow and says the, "Things fall apart..." yada yada "it's a long important process, and can we just skip it? Can you just be kissing me, now?" bit, which is how I remember the title of this one with the episode. Otherwise, I wouldn't have a clue.
sorry for the xpost
Slayage Conference Call for Papers
Someone should go and then report back. And tell me if it was all kraxy or interesting.
Slayage Conference
Sounds like the serial killers' convention in The Doll's House (Gaiman's Sandman). "Our next speaker is Mr. Corinthian."
Pictures of Seth Green with various members of INXS and contestants from RS:INXS.
But is lacks the punniness, Joe
