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Angel and Spike canonically have had sex, referenced in "The Girl in Question". Andrew frequently expresses affection for Spike, referencing both his physical attributes and his personal qualities. Xander and Spike exchange a look when, in the second episode of series 7, if I recall correctly, a guest character asks whether any of the gang have not had sex with each other.
Your next move is probably to tell me that that these interactions are in no way slashy, and that that slash in no way exists within the text. However, I would ask you to do it in a new thread, perhaps called "Male-male undertones in Buffy - scientific fact, or crazy fiction?".
Meanwhile, did anyone see "Random Shoes"? I found a number of elements about it irritating, which is a shame because it had the potential to be quite a sweet episode. The incredible closeness to Love and Monsters seemed as if the writer had decided that, since that had tugged heartstrings but had been disrupted by a character turn from Peter Kay, the answer was to get rid of the character part, and indeed the character. Gwen being empathic good, as it is what she was hired for, but Gwen being utterly unprofessional (wandering off for a day? I know that it's not quite up there with using alien technology for date rape or killing people, but still...) and then inexplicably falling for ghost boy then giving him a snog. The fact that she had gotten into position for the snog by standing in the road like a huge lummox, not noticing oncoming traffic. The sense-of-wonder stuff at the end, along with the apparent physical reincarnation and then rapturing of the geek boy. The bit where Torchwood turned off Echelon that week. The bit where Gwen's regular-bloke boyfriend and Dexter-Fletcher lover both decide to give her a night off so the sensitive outsider Mary-Sue can snuggle up with her (a real lady! with breasts!). Danny pissing Boy.
You could have actually saved a lot, and tied it in, if he had instead of saving Gwen, or at worst shortly after saving Gwen, been dismantled by t3h evil thing in the darkness, and vanished screaming, or even if it had finished at a Danny Boyless funeral. However, like Ianto's promise that he'll watch Jack die, I fear this dark thing in the hereafter might turn out to be a one-off reference rather than part of a cohesive arc. I hope to be proven wrong, not least because I'm not at all sure where the big bad is coming from or where the arc is leading - and having no clue with 4 episodes left is either brilliant suspense-building or ropey plotting. Perhaps it will all be tied in... but I fear any attempts to do so here risk being more successful than the writers'. It's a shame, after three episodes of escalating quality - this felt like filler, written without any real engagement with the characters or their stories. |
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