I agree with a lot of the statements herein. I had to stop watching BtVS during season 6 after "Wrecked". I could almost understand the point that Whedon, et al, were trying to get across; that Buffy was now different, she came back from the dead different and that she was gonna act different 'cause she couldn't connect to anything. Yeah, yeah. Got it. Olaf's axe might've been easier for me to take but I. Got. It.
Anyway. I work with a lot of women who've been raped. I work with prostitutes. I work with women afraid for their lives because of the men they'd been with. I didn't want to see my work sullying what I considered to be a great female character hero, so I stopped watching BtVS. It hurt too much.
So, I heard about "Seeing Red" before I saw it. I did hear about it. I was shocked and amazed that M.E. would let the story go that far. I was even more disheartened by the comments from Spike fen that I read at the WB posting board. "If she'd just let him finish it, she would've liked it." "Why'd she break up with him anyway, he looooves her so much." Not one of them seemed to think that at attempted rape was a bad thing. If anything, Buffy got what she deserved, or, because she fended him off, didn't let Spike get what he deserved, post-coital bliss on the bathroom floor.
I agree with your comments. Buffy is in serious need of therapy after everything that's happened to her in the past few years. Of course, where she's gonna find a therapist who isn't automatically calling for the "nice young men in their clean white coats" when she starts talking about Hellmouths, vampires and Slayers is a good point. Too bad the Council got destroyed. Maybe they had staff psychiatrists to help...of course, since they seemed mostly mysogynistic creatures, I shouldn't expect any help from that quarter, either.
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Anyway. I work with a lot of women who've been raped. I work with prostitutes. I work with women afraid for their lives because of the men they'd been with. I didn't want to see my work sullying what I considered to be a great female character hero, so I stopped watching BtVS. It hurt too much.
So, I heard about "Seeing Red" before I saw it. I did hear about it. I was shocked and amazed that M.E. would let the story go that far. I was even more disheartened by the comments from Spike fen that I read at the WB posting board. "If she'd just let him finish it, she would've liked it." "Why'd she break up with him anyway, he looooves her so much." Not one of them seemed to think that at attempted rape was a bad thing. If anything, Buffy got what she deserved, or, because she fended him off, didn't let Spike get what he deserved, post-coital bliss on the bathroom floor.
I agree with your comments. Buffy is in serious need of therapy after everything that's happened to her in the past few years. Of course, where she's gonna find a therapist who isn't automatically calling for the "nice young men in their clean white coats" when she starts talking about Hellmouths, vampires and Slayers is a good point. Too bad the Council got destroyed. Maybe they had staff psychiatrists to help...of course, since they seemed mostly mysogynistic creatures, I shouldn't expect any help from that quarter, either.
--S J Smith