What is with the sexual tension between Spike & Buffy?

[hazzard]

Yeah, isn;t it beautiful?

yes, it certainly is. it was very well done.

 

[Airam]

Oh, and what is a Paleyfest DVD? lol

Its the DVD of the recent reunion panel at PaleyFest, most of the main cast attended except David Boreanaz and Alyson Hannigan

 

[Blair Waldorf-Bass]

Yeah, this is what he said:
"As an actor, I right away played an attraction to Buffy, even though Spike was fully in love with Drusilla. There was a scene, my very first day of shooting, where I was hunting Buffy, not to fight with her, but just to observe her and see what her fighting style was. And I'm looking at her in the Bronze and I'm kind of walking through the crowd, watching her dance, and there was something both very much of a hunter, "I'm going to kill you", but there's also heavy sexual undercurrent, and that just came off the day (laughs) watching Sarah dance, really. But, you know, Spike was the perfect boyfriend, so he would never go beyond that. But there was that attraction immediately, and by the time we get to Season 4, it's developing. There are two episodes where the characters get together. One is kind of a what-if episode which is brought on by a spell that Willow casts which is completely unreal. But then there's a scene later on in the season where Faith takes over Buffy's body and just messes with Spike's mind. And there we see for the first time that if Spike would have gone for it, he would very much like to have kissed Buffy. And that's why he can't kill her, because he's in love with someone who's truly good. And so he's going to try and be the kind of man that Buffy would like to have. "

: I remember reading this (or something similar) on James' official website.

Maybe they wrote it down. I dunno. It's in the season 4 special features thingy on the disc that has "Hush" on it (number three, I believe)

 

[Randy Giles]

The tension between the two characters actually began in "School Hard" in Season 3 and never stopped for the rest of the series, simply because of the chemistry between the two characters and the actors who portrayed them. As Spike put it, they danced well together. Whether as enemies, reluctant co-conspirators, lovers, or close personal friends, they just balanced each other out. That has nothing to do with whether you support Spuffy or not, it's just a simple fact, and their affair/relationship/love, however you label it, could only have been avoided or terminated by the death of one, the other, or both characters. There was just too much fire there for it to have been logically avoided.

(Now all of the Bangels can feel free to jump on me at your leisure and refudiate everything that I said, or at least TRY to)

I never thought of it that way before, but you are absolutely right. But I always enjoyed Spuffy a little more...(I'm neither a Spuffy or Bangel shipper though, I want Buffy to hook up with a HUMAN later on in her life.)

 

[Blair Waldorf-Bass]

I never thought of it that way before, but you are absolutely right. But I always enjoyed Spuffy a little more...(I'm neither a Spuffy or Bangel shipper though, I want Buffy to hook up with a HUMAN later on in her life.)

Haha, really? Hopefully Spike'll show up in season 8. *happy dance*

 

[Girl with Sword]

Yeah, I've always said that the sexual tension between them has been there since he walked into that allyway in season 2. If you notice Buffy almost seems disapointed when he says he's was going to kill her.

 

[Blair Waldorf-Bass]

Yeah, I've always said that the sexual tension between them has been there since he walked into that allyway in season 2. If you notice Buffy almost seems disapointed when he says he's was going to kill her.

So true! *laughs* When I first saw "School Hard" and that interaction I was thinking about how cute a couple they would make. We didn't know anything about Spuffy then, of course.