SEARCHING FOR SERENITY

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I’m not anyone’s first choice. I’m not anyone’s favorite. People may tell me I mean a lot to them and that I’m special to them but I know there’s someone they will always choose over me.

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Typewriter Series #63 by Tyler Knott Gregson

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FRIENDS REWATCH - Season 7, Episode 21

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If I were in the Hunger Games I would use one of the parachutes and gift containers and put all kinds of poisonous berries in them and then climb trees and send them down to unsuspecting tributes. Oh, you thought you were getting a nice fruit salad? Think again. POISON.

#THIS IS GENIUS #SO DOING THIS IF I EVER GET REAPED #omg

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The sixth season of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” has many detractors, but it’s easy to see why fan loyalty was tested during that year. The fracturing of the group became far too great as the big bad that is Normal Life with it’s inherent pressures came to bear on the Scoobies. The entire gang was going through huge angst while cutting themselves off from each other, making the spat they had when they first went to college seem positively breezy in comparison. Buffy, traumatized from being expelled from Paradise and hating every second of her resurrected life, began a very unhealthy relationship with Spike. The vampire had, due to external forces, been rendered harmless to humans — but Buffy’s unique status post resurrection made her an exception. This thoroughly miserable relationship founded on pure base desire and on a need to escape the bleak situation in which she found herself curdled, until finally Buffy decided she had to break it off. Spike was never a character to take rejection lightly and in easily the most uncomfortable scene ever given to us by the series, he attempts to force himself on the Slayer.



Carefully choreographed and shocking in its execution, fans still have a huge problem with this moment and some find it completely unnecessary. The writers argue it was the final push for Spike to go on and reclaim his soul, knowing he had gone too far. For me, it placed the character in a very strange place for the audience. Spike had already changed once he fell for the Slayer, but here he was in no man’s land. He could never return to being our favorite villain. Could we ever accept him as a hero after this? Now we know Spike and Angel did horrific things during their evil tenure, and during the course of the show, viewers saw them murdering people while causing plenty of pain and destruction — but not only were the gristly events of their pasts off-screen, it was all very much in a more comic-book-like vein; fantasy horror, if you will. This very real and graphic attempt at a heinous crime just seemed tonally off for the show and a step too far.

Some may laud the episode’s attempt to convey a horrible act people have to face in real life, much to our eternal regret, but is “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” really a forum for such things? It felt like the true end of innocence for the show. The following season, Spike came back, first incredibly crazy and eventually redeemed to a new paradigm; a soulful and more measured character. He’s the only one who doesn’t turn against Buffy the General in that grandstanding scene of group characterization madness when the Scoobies elect to follow Faith over Buffy (Still the worst scene in the whole show for my money, including “Beer Bad”). Some attempts are made to justify how getting his soul back made him a better person and demonstrate his guilt over his actions, but to be honest the show tip toes around this moment. I’m not sure they justify a total redemption. It’s a telling statement that actor James Marsters (who plays Spike) was so disturbed by the scene he has put a clause in his contract to ensure he never has to film anything like that again.

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