balzaqc - I think actually those examples are very much examples of when the writers showed, rather than told.
(eta - the above was a cross post with Sean - I'm not piling on you, balzaqc)
Great commentary folks. I have only one ...... that the Buffy/Angel kiss appeared to me to be only one of old friends re-uniting. I didn't get anything really erotic from it. Loved the look on Spike's face at the end. That is all. Looking bitterlysweet forward to next week.
Here's the thing about Buffy and Angel - and I'm not a shipper (though I once came close, but it was long ago, and over the sea...)
You know - when you see them (or I do) that if there was no curse, they'd be together. Yes, they'd fight and shag and everything else Spike said. But if circumstances were different, they'd be on each other like white on rice. So when they kiss, even if it's more friendly in tone (although I got the rising music and the rising...music vibe out of it) - even that tells you much - as opposed to Spike and Buffy's stilted scene in
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last week's episode, when they switched positions dependent upon who was talking.
they'd be on each other like white on rice
What the hell does that mean, anyhow?
I mean, white on rice? I've never really gotten that.
Not going to get in to the whole SMG/AH dispute, if indeed there is one, but I did pull this from the AH interview in the link:
What is the right amount of sex ?
AH: When your muscles never recover, so that you always have a persistent aching muscle of some sort. When the next day you're like, "Why is that muscle hurting ? Oh yeah, that's why."
Rice has this powdery white stuff on the surface. Maybe it's rice powder?
cereal...
am drinking merlot, because I've been a stress freak for the past week. If I misued stilted I am heartfully sorry for sinning against mine Buffistas, and am hie-ing myself to dictionary.com to check it, right now.
(AIwillbeFG)
I just wonder if it's true. Is SMG really evil? Cause that's sad, she's what got me into BtVS in the first place and I've always loved her...it would be very upsetting if she is more Kathryn of Cruel Intentions than Buffy.
What the hell does that mean, anyhow?
I mean, white on rice? I've never really gotten that.
Moooommmmmm! Plei's picking on me when I'm tipsy.
Actually, I have always taken it to mean that since rice (you know, the white kind) is white, it is synononononohmous to "all over" each other.
(no - I currently *CAN'T* spell synonymous)
I feel like you're being purposefully obtuse about this subject for reasons that baffle me.
I feel the same way. Telling does NOT mean Talking.
Has Giles EVER, in 7 seasons, said "I love you, Buffy"?
Does anyone doubt that, at least for the first 6 seasons, he does? (Cause he's been Weirdo McWeirdypants this season.)
I did pull this from the AH interview in the link:
That and the Hooters comment were what stood out in my mind. Oh, and the mental image of college girl kissing.
I don't give a rodent's rear about set tensions, I fear.
