Burning question
Feb. 27th, 2010 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snick_backupBuffy and Riley first have sex in "The I in Team." The scene of Riley undressing Buffy as she kisses him is interwoven with the chronologically prior scene of Buffy, Riley, and the Initiative boys battling the Polgara demon, all overlaid with a bizarre but atmospheric electronic (I think?) soundtrack.
Why?
What is the interweaving of the fighting and the sex supposed to accomplish? It's clearly not the violence<=>sex tie of Spike/Buffy; are we supposed to take away that fighting side-by-side is a major component of the Buffy/Riley relationship, at least at the beginning? Granted, there is that conversation about fry cooks in "Doomed," but their similar, ah, professions aren't what initially attract them to each other nor what they're clinging to by the end. So if not that... what? Was Joss just feeling a bit experimental (read: random) that day?
(Also: the housemate asked if there was a lot of fic about Maggie Walsh. I had to tell her no. However, this is a great time to rec again Marina Frants's excellent A Hazy Shade of Winter, pre-series Maggie/Riley, which is both the longest and the richest Maggie Walsh fic I've ever come across.)
Why?
What is the interweaving of the fighting and the sex supposed to accomplish? It's clearly not the violence<=>sex tie of Spike/Buffy; are we supposed to take away that fighting side-by-side is a major component of the Buffy/Riley relationship, at least at the beginning? Granted, there is that conversation about fry cooks in "Doomed," but their similar, ah, professions aren't what initially attract them to each other nor what they're clinging to by the end. So if not that... what? Was Joss just feeling a bit experimental (read: random) that day?
(Also: the housemate asked if there was a lot of fic about Maggie Walsh. I had to tell her no. However, this is a great time to rec again Marina Frants's excellent A Hazy Shade of Winter, pre-series Maggie/Riley, which is both the longest and the richest Maggie Walsh fic I've ever come across.)
