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I've nearly completed downloading a DIVX of Intervention so I'll be screen capping some Spikey goodness soon.  Expect a link by the weekend, since I'm going to see U2 tonight and won't have time.  Warning:  the U2 site is slooooow to load.  Rock on!

Oh yeah, forgot to mention...I totally blew off going out to see The Prime Gig on Tuesday night in favor of staying home and watching Buffy & Angel when they aired.  But I'm sure you'd guessed that anyway.

Cordy, Linds.  Linds, Cordy.  I can never remember whether it is Lindsey or Lindsay so I'm just gonna call him Linds from now on since you know that's what Angel calls him when no one else is around.  Speaking of nicknames, did you notice that when Buffy posing as the BuffyBot said Willow put her back together that Spike automatically referred to her with the diminutive Will?  But I digress.

Usually it's a bad sign when I bust out crying before the credits have even started, but fortunately it was not a tissue fest last night.  Cordelia huddled in Angel's arms before the credits just about tore my heart out, but goofy, smiling, snarkelicious Angel and his favorite person to demonstrate a choke hold on made it all better.  Getting not one, but two scenes of lingering shots of Linds in bed shirtless didn't hurt either.  I'm annoyed about the guitar though.  The guitar was not there the last time we saw the inside of Linds' closet and it makes me wonder why he would be moving it around from place to place if he can't play it.

That Christian Kane fella sure can sing, can't he?  Why the hell haven't I managed to drag myself out to see his band play yet?

I'm not going to get into the logistics of the plot because it isn't likely to stand up well under any kind of serious examination.  Or flimsy examination for that matter.  In fact, it was just plain silly.  So I'm just going to talk about Cordy, Linds and Angel, since I don't think Wesley and Gunn were in this episode.  At least I don't recall seeing them, do you?  Were they in the credits? Heh.

Aww shit, what the hell is there to really say about this episode.  Cordy & Angel were adorable together.  Lindsay and Angel were adorable together.  Cordy was adorable watching Lindsay. Angel looks adorable when he smiles.  Lilah is a waste of space and should die terribly and die soon.  Tune in next week for Cordy in an ugly bikini and Angel in over-protective older brother mode.

My mind has turned to mush.

We are so vindicated!!

As a formerly delusional and now prescient Spike Redemptionista, I've been walking around with a "cat that ate the canary" grin on my face all morning.  I'm sure everyone thinks I'm insane.  I've been dreading Spike-Buffybot sex for months, but I have to admit that Spike was hot last night.  He was hot, heroic, hurt, touching, pathetic and beautiful.  And now I fear for his unlife.

But I'm going to ignore my fears and enjoy the wonder of Buffy kissing Spike of her own free will.  Yes, the robot was gross and obscene and yes it shone a spotlight on the patheticness that is Spike, but more than anything it revealed what a lonely vampire we have on our hands.  Ostracized by his own kind and the Scoobie and ultimately dumped by both Drucilla and Harmony, is it any wonder he hasn't staked himself already?  I think it is becoming more and more clear that it is Spike who has the death wish he told Buffy about in Fool for Love, but I said I was going to ignore my fears, didn't I?

Happily, I think Spike finally hit his emotional bottom in Intervention so I don't think we'll have any more pathetic Spike to grimace about for the final episodes.

In the MBTV Buffy forums, we often discuss the multiple meanings of the episode titles.  What's interesting about this episode is the intervention alluded to in the Scoobies' discussion of Buffy's behaviour doesn't even occur because as we all know, that wasn't Buffy boinking Spike.  The real intervention occurs when Buffy rescues Spike from his own downward spiral by finally acknowledging that he has done something real.  Of course he's been doing real, heart-felt things on her behalf for some time now, but this is the first time she's been able to accept it.

The First Slayer's message to Buffy is in three parts: that she needs to accept love, not reject it;  she needs to forgive; and death is her gift.  Of course, everyone is having a fit that this last part refers to Buffy's own death or the death of someone close to her, but I tend to think it has more to do with Spike's comment in Fool for Love that "Death is your art".  Buffy is a martial "artist" and death is more than an ending.  It's a release from the bonds of physical being, a transformation into some other form of being.  For the moment I'm going to assume that Spike is not involved in Buffy's gift because that would pretty much make the show all about Spike and I'm just not that delusional, although I'm working on it.  I think he does have much to do though with the First Slayer's exhortations that Buffy needs to accept love and offer forgiveness.  The brief kiss embodied not only acceptance and forgiveness, but grace.

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