7 June 2005 20:42, by jo
G - I think you’re missing the point of what the Spuffy relationship was supposed to represent in S6. That’s a huge part of what Sarah found degrading; it had nothing to do with the sex itself. It was the nature of that sexual relationship that irked her. That wasn’t Buffy. And perhaps her opinion (and mine, for that matter) would have changed if we saw the writers allow Buffy to recover in S7. But they didn’t even bother.
And how could she have quit? She had a 7-year contract and if she refused to do those scenes she would have been sued. She was devoted to the character and the show and (...)