I thought that scene was brilliant at the time, because it illustrated what was so wrong in Buffy's part of the the Buffy/Spike relationship--not that she was dirtying her precious self with an icky vampire, but that she was using and abusing someone who loved her. I loved that scene because it was so obvious and I was sure that they were going to address it and deal with it.
But no, instead we got the attempted rape, and everything they "dealt with" afterward was how bad Spike was. As if the attempted rape erased the beating, and all of the questionably-consensual emotionally and physically abusive bullshit Buffy put Spike through before it. (Not in any way that Spike was an innocent, but that still doesn't make the way Buffy treated him okay.)
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I thought that scene was brilliant at the time, because it illustrated what was so wrong in Buffy's part of the the Buffy/Spike relationship--not that she was dirtying her precious self with an icky vampire, but that she was using and abusing someone who loved her. I loved that scene because it was so obvious and I was sure that they were going to address it and deal with it.
But no, instead we got the attempted rape, and everything they "dealt with" afterward was how bad Spike was. As if the attempted rape erased the beating, and all of the questionably-consensual emotionally and physically abusive bullshit Buffy put Spike through before it. (Not in any way that Spike was an innocent, but that still doesn't make the way Buffy treated him okay.)