Oh, I get it. You just don't like who did the rescuing, that's all. Wishin' I was your boyfriend what's-his-height. Oh wait, he's run off.

Spike ,'Potential'


Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!

Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.


P.M. Marc - May 12, 2005 7:14:39 am PDT #706 of 10458
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

All signs point to bedroom skills as one of Harm's few real talents, so I might go with F.


§ ita § - May 12, 2005 7:22:45 am PDT #707 of 10458
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What signs are those? I skimmed S5, and can't quite find any.


Stephanie - May 12, 2005 7:29:08 am PDT #708 of 10458
Trust my rage

I always assumed that bedroom skills were the only reason Spike was with her.


Betsy HP - May 12, 2005 7:30:14 am PDT #709 of 10458
If I only had a brain...

But Spike is enough of a horndog that "willing" is probably sufficient; I don't see him holding out for "expert".


Lyra Jane - May 12, 2005 7:33:16 am PDT #710 of 10458
Up with the sun

I don't see Spike as being the world's greatest judge of bedroom skills, either. As far as we know, his experience at that point was pretty much Drusilla -- who doesn't strike me as an especially focused lover -- possibly being used as a toy by Darla and Angelus, and anyone he might have raped. Not exactly experiences likely to teach one the Kama Sutra.


Fred Pete - May 12, 2005 7:36:32 am PDT #711 of 10458
Ann, that's a ferret.

Not exactly experiences likely to teach one the Kama Sutra.

I'll add that William, being a middle-class Victorian male, probably had experiences with prostitutes. Which really doesn't change the above conclusion.


Lyra Jane - May 12, 2005 7:39:05 am PDT #712 of 10458
Up with the sun

I'll add that William, being a middle-class Victorian male, probably had experiences with prostitutes.

You think? I suppose statistically you're right, but I just see him as too much of a mama's boy for that.


Connie Neil - May 12, 2005 7:42:18 am PDT #713 of 10458
brillig

Hey, Spike's sex skills! always fun to discuss.


Fred Pete - May 12, 2005 7:43:12 am PDT #714 of 10458
Ann, that's a ferret.

You think?

Probably but not certainly. Being a mama's boy with Victorian attitudes, he certainly wouldn't have told her if he did.


§ ita § - May 12, 2005 7:48:25 am PDT #715 of 10458
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Being a mama's boy with Victorian attitudes, he certainly wouldn't have told her if he did.

He seemed so flummoxed by women -- not just by the politics of women of his own class, but by their very material existence.