but someone tried to do Buffy/Spike to it which was just... ugly.
There are actually about five or six S/B vids to that song. ahahaha. Which, in my opinion, is a perfect fit -- IF it's done right. One of the vids I've seen did an excellent job with it (a fairly talented vidder), but. yeah. There were some real crappy ones, as one tends to get with S/B vids. Ouch.
It works well with Spike/Buffy, in my opinion, because of how it was often expressed in the early days of Spike's love for Buffy (by both Spike and others) was something like a disease, an infection. And it's so perfect from Spike's point of view, as he often saw her as tormenting him. (He even demands/begs in the musicial for her to "leave him in peace").
And the song is so much frantic, can't-you-see-I'm-losing-it pleading that starts like Spike often did, with the whole, "Okay, that's it! It's over!" (You left a stain/On every one of my good days/But I am stronger than you know/I have to let you go) which quickly dissolves into panicked thoughts about feeling uneasy, haunted, asking her to leave, asking her to be his honey, and telling himself that he'll be free from his obsession (though it's clear to the "audience" that he's just fooling himself).
and the line "every little thing you do is tragic" is so reminiscent of Buffy, along with:
No one's ever turned you over No one's tried To ever let you down, Beautiful girl Bless your heart
As Spike sees her as having devoted followers and goody-good boyfriends, and himself letting her down and shaking her up.
(I think this song could also work very well with the Season 2 Angel/Darla arc...)
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There are actually about five or six S/B vids to that song. ahahaha. Which, in my opinion, is a perfect fit -- IF it's done right. One of the vids I've seen did an excellent job with it (a fairly talented vidder), but. yeah. There were some real crappy ones, as one tends to get with S/B vids. Ouch.
It works well with Spike/Buffy, in my opinion, because of how it was often expressed in the early days of Spike's love for Buffy (by both Spike and others) was something like a disease, an infection. And it's so perfect from Spike's point of view, as he often saw her as tormenting him. (He even demands/begs in the musicial for her to "leave him in peace").
And the song is so much frantic, can't-you-see-I'm-losing-it pleading that starts like Spike often did, with the whole, "Okay, that's it! It's over!" (You left a stain/On every one of my good days/But I am stronger than you know/I have to let you go) which quickly dissolves into panicked thoughts about feeling uneasy, haunted, asking her to leave, asking her to be his honey, and telling himself that he'll be free from his obsession (though it's clear to the "audience" that he's just fooling himself).
and the line "every little thing you do is tragic" is so reminiscent of Buffy, along with:
No one's ever turned you over
No one's tried
To ever let you down,
Beautiful girl
Bless your heart
As Spike sees her as having devoted followers and goody-good boyfriends, and himself letting her down and shaking her up.
(I think this song could also work very well with the Season 2 Angel/Darla arc...)