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Reviews for Seeing Red

By : DarkRhiannon
  • From Jags on June 11, 2009
    oh yes i'm with the others on this. more please. very nice
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  • From ANON - Angelalex242 on August 11, 2004
    This is Spuffy in its purest form. Good job. This, perhaps, is the only kind of Spuffy I like seeing.

    However, big reviewer has a point...she needs counseling, and by someone who knows how.

    Big reviewer points out what's wrong with B/A...they put duty first, and Angel himself tends to make a whole lot of decisions without ever consulting her. On the other hand, on certain occassions, their duty becomes eachother.

    A nice sequel might involve Angel staking the ensouled Spike.

    I think Xander should be the one to go to LA and tell him what Spike did. It's a...very, very deadly answer to the problem. Spike, of course, would have a short life expectency once his grandsire learns about that...
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  • From ANON - Indra on May 15, 2003
    Oh my god, thank you so much for writing this fic.
    It is the first fics that gets it right. I just hated all those 'seeing red' fics, that
    pretended Buffy l bei being raped.... (if it had happened)...
    please keep wrg thg this one, I really would like to see what William is doing now.
    You made it clear that the demon raped her, not the human part in Spike. The characterization is really
    amazing. thanks again...;) Indra
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  • From ANON - ttrummer on March 08, 2003
    The above review seems more focused on the AR itself rather than the fanfic in question. I found it to be well written, in character, and a very nice piece of fanfiction. Well done.
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  • From ANON - David Goodman on March 01, 2003
    A very well written piece. RANT to follow, as based upon my opinion of how you have written Spike.

    Of course, even with the new soul, Spike doesn't understand Buffy at all - and his immediate desire to "win her" proves him still unworthy of love. Because, even with the new soul, he still sees Buffy as an object, just as he did when he raped her. What Buffy actually wants out of life, what Buffy's motivations and values are, still seem largely irrelevant to Spike. He still assumes that she should love him - that she belongs to him, as though she were a thing to be possessed. His self-recrimination appears to lie more in his tactics in wooing her - and not in regret that he attempts to dominate her, break her, control her, and seperate her from her ties to humanity - ties which he knows keep slayers alive.

    And his manner of love for both Dru and Buffy doesn't just objectify the women - it objectifies himself. He fails to distiguish between sex and love. He paints himself as the humble loving servant, allows himself to be treated like a thing should the lady wish, yet responds with violence and anger should she not return his affection. He lacks the fundamental sense of self necessary to be a real partner. This occurred even in his human life. Cecily's rejection destroyed him, and sent him broken into the arms of Drusilla. A healthier person figures out who and what they want to be, and accepts that they will or will not be loved for it. He is not yet aware that Buffy may have a will of her own. Spike must develop his own identity seperate from his claim to love Buffy. Otherwise, even with a soul, this pattern of mutual abuse will repeat itself.

    Fundamentally, Buffy has been a person who gives and gives of herself so that the world around her can be better off. Angel, very often, beh in in a similar manner. At it's core, that's why Buffy and Angel can't be together - because it isn't fair to the people they are meant to protect - and both place duty and responsiblitiy above personal desires. It's not just the soul issue. Spike, for all his devotion, has never been responsible for anything and has never had to sacrifice a want in the name of duty. He has only gotten the soul because he realizes that he does want Buffy to love him - it is fundamentally a selfish decision and makes him no worthier. Only his actions with a soul can do that.

    Should you continue, I do hope your Buffy seeks some type of legitimate counseling. She has been raped. This is not a little issue. She is a woman. And she is the slayer. What does it tell her about herself as humanity's protector? About her judgement? In many ways, she used Spike the way many alcoholics turn to the bottle. Accept that in her case, the bottle is another person. Buffy needs to find a legitimate way to approach her depression. She needs to learn how to value her existence on her own. She needs to address her own pathologies, including her abandonment issues. Otherwise, she will allow herself to be manipulated again, and will fall into a similar abusive pattern once again.

    Again. Sorry if I got really ranty. But I put some thought into this and I see almost nothing healthy in the B/S relationship of S6 other than two things.

    1. Unhealthy as it was, it gave Buffy an anchor after Giles left, and the scoobies and Dawn revealed themselves as undependable. Without Spike as distraction from her own emotional and existential crisis, she likely would have gotten herself killed. So Buffy still lives. Had Spike raped her earlier in the year, Xan Xander was not free enough of Anya to look out for her, Buffy would quite likely be dead. But she has still not yet addressed the crises that sent her into such an abusive relationship - and is likely headed back to another if she doesn't fix them.

    2. The events have prompted Spike to get a soul, even if for all the wrong reasons. Perhaps he will develop a respect for life. To this point, Buffy, Joyce, and Dawn are the only people he hasn't indicated he would gleefully kill if he could. An lan large part, only Buffy's willingness to sleep with him once he learned he could hurt her has kept her alive. If she had spurned him instead of fucking him in "Smashed" - one of them would have had to kill the other or leave town for good. However, he has yet to indicate any tes of feelings toward humanity beyond the personal. Does he feel bad for trying to rape and kill Willow in S4? Does he care about making the world a safer place or is he only concerned with getting Buffy? Will he grow, or will he still remain selfishly obsessed with the slayer?
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