Random Buffy thoughts

Confession: I've never actually seen "Seeing Red."
I've watched the attempted rape scene (b/c I don't think you can be a Spuffy fan without seeing/analyzing/acknowledging/whatever that scene) and Tara's death b/c you know...it's Tara's death.  But I knew ahead of time about those scenes, and I was too disgusted with BtVS to watch the whole episode.  That was four years ago, and I've still never felt any burning desire to see it.  I usually don't even remember that I haven't seen it until random times like today, when I saw a post on Buffy Secrets that had me going, "Huh?  That is not familiar at all!"  It's a pic of Dawn in Spike's crypt when she berates him for sleeping with Anya and the caption is, "To me, this is the saddest scene in the episode because it marks the death of their friendship."  And I was thinking, "What the heck is this?  I thought the nail in the coffin of their friendship was when she threatened- with good reason- to set him on fire in S7."  And then I googled a quote from the epi in one of the comments and realized why I didn't have any recollection of the scene.  It pisses me off so much that the writers used Dawn as a catalyst to start the Spuffy trauma in this episode.  One, it's lousy and presumptuous of Dawn because hello, Buffy dumped Spike, no one should be getting on his case about sleeping with Anya, and two, it's such an obvious plot device to get Spike in The Bathroom (she says without ever having seen the episode).  I know that everything that happens in the bathroom is Spike's fault, but I think there's a good chance that the characters never would have ended up in that situation to begin with if Dawn hadn't shot off her big mouth first.  UGH.

Random Buffy thoughts

Confession: I've never actually seen "Seeing Red."
I've watched the attempted rape scene (b/c I don't think you can be a Spuffy fan without seeing/analyzing/acknowledging/whatever that scene) and Tara's death b/c you know...it's Tara's death.  But I knew ahead of time about those scenes, and I was too disgusted with BtVS to watch the whole episode.  That was four years ago, and I've still never felt any burning desire to see it.  I usually don't even remember that I haven't seen it until random times like today, when I saw a post on Buffy Secrets that had me going, "Huh?  That is not familiar at all!"  It's a pic of Dawn in Spike's crypt when she berates him for sleeping with Anya and the caption is, "To me, this is the saddest scene in the episode because it marks the death of their friendship."  And I was thinking, "What the heck is this?  I thought the nail in the coffin of their friendship was when she threatened- with good reason- to set him on fire in S7."  And then I googled a quote from the epi in one of the comments and realized why I didn't have any recollection of the scene.  It pisses me off so much that the writers used Dawn as a catalyst to start the Spuffy trauma in this episode.  One, it's lousy and presumptuous of Dawn because hello, Buffy dumped Spike, no one should be getting on his case about sleeping with Anya, and two, it's such an obvious plot device to get Spike in The Bathroom (she says without ever having seen the episode).  I know that everything that happens in the bathroom is Spike's fault, but I think there's a good chance that the characters never would have ended up in that situation to begin with if Dawn hadn't shot off her big mouth first.  UGH.