[Marmaluka]

Да, я знаю, от фконтакта нужно держаться подальше и вообще беречь нервы... Но, блин, это как больной зуб - все тянет потрогать.

Интересуюсь обсуждениями. Тема "Что значит огонь между пальцами Баффи и Спайка?" Открыта девушкой, усмотревшей в вспыхнувшем пламени символ любви. Девушку тут же разубедили, что искать потаенный смысл в данном пиротехническом эффекте не стоит. Все было сделано исключительно для красивой картинки и вообще Ведон "режиссер, а не символист".

Эти чудесатые мнения заставили вспомнить замечательное эссе Tallgent "Buffy/Spike: Fulfillment in Hands and Fire". Если не читали, неприменно ознакомьтесь

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The most prevalent symbolism of Spike and Buffy's relationship is hands and fire. Hands and fire have defined Spike and Buffy. Hands were used on each other in brawl after brawl until the brawl turned into a dance. In the closing song in Once More With Feeling, Spike and Buffy are the only ones who have their fingers interlaced, much like their final moment together. In Dead Things, the door scene focused on their hands being separated by the door, but their attachment still evident through the barrier. Then in Potential and beyond things changed, the hands held each other, caressed, fondled, stroked.

Fire has been used to describe Buffy's capacity for love. Spike saves Buffy from burning up in a dance to her death. Throughout the show we get references to the burning passion of live. How it consumes, takes over. After their first moment of having sex, Buffy keeps Spike's lighter as a keepsake, a reminder of the fire he gives her.

And I think we saw this ultimately exemplified in Buffy and Spike in the end when in their revelatory handclasp there is a perfect marriage of hands and fire. For Spike there was fulfillment in loving rather than being loved. There's no malice when he denies her love. He loves her more in that moment than at any other time. And he doesn't regret any of it. Which makes it all the more remarkable. They both fought to reach this peak when it would have been so easy to ignore each other or hate and spite each other. It is so easy to hate, and Lord knows they had plenty of justifiable reasons. But it's such a harder thing, and more courageous thing, to love.

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