#btvs 6.03

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“It’s okay. I can be alone with you here.”

BTVS || 3.08 // 6.03

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The digital remastered versions' greatest sin is that the new aspect ratio cuts off the shot of their hands halfway and you can’t fully see him literally CRADLING her injured hands. So here you go. Brb going to stare at this forever.

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“We're not all gonna make it. You know that.” “Yeah. Hey, I always knew I'd go down fighting.”

BTVS || 6.03, 5.22 // Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush

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Spuffy are literally married to me in the context of canon. I’m not even sorry. They just are. They were canonically engaged and they never officially broke up that engagement and then there was wedding imagery in after life. That was literally a marriage. Then chosen was an even more intense vowel renewal. Like I just don’t see how you can tell someone you love them while your intertwined hands burst into flames and NOT be married. There was even an exchange of jewelry.

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You know what’s crazy? Just absolutely bonkers about After Life? It’s the way the demon that Buffy’s resurrection created…the price for bringing her back…the one that taunts her about being “barely there,” just as it is…is described in the script as looking like a drowned woman. It’s a drowned woman dressed in white…

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The framing of this shot…they’re literally getting married okay

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I’m sorry I’m still being unhinged about After Life and like…okay it’s the way the undertones of Spike and Dawn’s arc in that episode are slightly different from the scoobies. The scoobies arc is “hooray! We saved Buffy from hell! Is she okay? Why isn’t she happy?? Why isn’t she smiling and thanking us? Is she okay? Buffy are you okay? She’s probably okay.” But Spike and Dawn’s plot is they can pretty clearly tell something is wrong…that she’s not okay. But they still care very much about her and are really protective. And this episode majorly floats the idea of her “coming back wrong,” even baits the audience with it a bit. But the thing is the overwhelming reaction from Spike and Dawn is…they don’t care. Early on in the episode the scoobies suggest maybe Buffy could be crazy and wild and dangerous…and then we immediately cut to Dawn taking her home. BECAUSE DAWN DOEST CARE. Her sister just crawled out of her grave. She’s dirty and bloody and her hair is a mess and she does look ‘wild’ like the scoobies suggest. But Dawn doesn’t care. Then there’s Spike a while later, making it very clear that had they brought her back wrong, he wouldn’t have allowed them to kill whatever came back if there was even a chance it was Buffy. And Dawn has a similar freak out on Willow later when even the suggestion of undoing Buffy’s resurrection comes up, and she’s bothered by it for the rest of the episode. In conclusion, both the scoobies and Dawn and Spike know on some level that something is wrong, but the scoobies convince themselves it’s not and everything is all good news and sunshine. Dawn and Spike don’t really do that, they’re prepared to accept the reality that she did come back wrong…but that doesn’t change anything. They’d fight for her tooth and nail regardless.

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Reading the Buffy scripts is wild because then you Notice Things that don’t necessarily mean anything other than a reflection of the writer’s character portrayals. Like it’s David Fury not writing the scene in Bargaining ii where Dawn is sleeping on the couch and Spike is sitting up watching tv and that scene being added later then it’s Jane Espensen writing a scene in After Life where Spike is freaking out trying to find Dawn and it getting cut