Tabula rasa.

[prillalar]

This is the best I've got for Buffy icons any more. I watched Tabula Rasa tonight. It's the BtVS S6 episode where Willow's spell causes them to all lose their memories.

I love this ep and mostly because of the Giles/Anya interaction. I'd been shipping them for a year before it aired and when I saw them, kiss, I almost fell off the couch. I still feel that way whenever I watch it.

As the episode progresses, they all begin to fall into their usual patterns and relationships, based on what they feel, not what they know. Spike and Buffy fight vampires together, Buffy and Dawn realise they are sisters. Willow and Xander figure they are dating but soon Willow realises she prefers Tara.

And all through this, Giles and Anya are together, bickering with a heat Anya and Xander never, ever have, fighting, breaking their "engagement", and making up with a big dramatic kiss that lasts until the moment the spell is broken.

They were so meant to be.

Everything ends on a sad, sad note, Giles flying away, Tara packing and leaving, Buffy and Spike kissing at the Bronze -- and yes, it's not a happy kiss -- but nothing can spoil my golden glow.

A question that has plagued me for years: Amnesiac!Giles says of Spike, "You do inspire a particular feeling of familiarity and disappointment." Why disappointment?

Comments

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Why disappointment?

'Cause nobody's staked him yet?

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha, I just finished watching that episode, after being seized with a passion for OMWF, and am now watching "Smashed." And I ship Giles/Anya so hard, especially in that episode -- they totally should have gone that route in the finale, rather than the horrible end they did give Anya.

[zauberer-sirin.livejournal.com]

a lot of cool people ship Giles/Anya. maybe because thay are cool and yes they have this incredible chemistry. i don´t ship them but i can totally see the point. I love "Tabula Rasa" but it´s hard to for me to watch again, because aw, the pain, the leaving, the "Giles, please don´t go!" on my part.

i have the urge to get my Buffy dvds out now, but i have to leave for college in half an hour, how sad.

[shikishi.livejournal.com]

I believe it is a play on the traditional "guilt tripping" Dad rol, myself.

Huh. Giles/Anya was never a pairing I looked at, mainly because of Anya and the fact I simply could not get over my annoyance with her hair.

I have no James Marsters icons left, or else I would use one. :)

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

Seriously, Giles/Anya is a wonderful idea that should have happened. Especially after Xander ditched her at the alter, the jerk. (Don't get me wrong, I love Xander. But, jeez.)

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Amnesiac!Giles says of Spike, "You do inspire a particular feeling of familiarity and disappointment." Why disappointment?

I have always assumed Joss is picking at the scabs of his daddy issues, again.