Sarah Michelle Gellar Says There’s 1 Part Of ‘Buffy’ She Refuses To Show Her Kids
Sarah Michelle Gellar, 2022 People’s Choice Awards
Sarah Michelle Gellar Will her son remain Team Spike.
The former “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star told The Hollywood Reporter In a Wednesday profile, she stated that she had seen the show earlier in the pandemic. She decided to watch it again with her children, as they were old enough to be interested.
Gellar is the mother of Charlotte, 13-year-old, and Rocky, 10 years old. She has been married to actor Freddie Prinze Jr. for 20 years.
“We watched seasons one through five,” Gellar said, adding that after viewing these seasons, her kids have taken sides on which of Buffy’s vampiric romances they prefer.
Gellar claimed that her daughter likes Angel the broody, tortured Angel while her son likes Spike, the punk rock villain-turned-hero.
And it seems like Gellar curated which episodes of the show’s seven seasons her kids would watch in order for her son to retain his opinion.
“We skipped around a lot on those last two [seasons],” Gellar told the outlet. “I have trouble with six. It wasn’t appropriate for them at the time, and I just don’t want to rewatch it.”
Gellar and Nicholas Brendon, Charisma Carpenter, Charisma Carpenter and Anthony Stewart Head are all seen in the cast photo of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.
Season 6 of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is certainly the series’ most controversial — and marked a network switch from The WB to the now defunct UPN in 2002. Buffy, who is traumatized and resurrected in that season, suffers from a long-term depression. In this season, Buffy has an unhealthy sexual relationship with Spike, her former enemy.
The charming James Marsters played Spike. He was a beloved character with three dimensions and a strong redemption story. His romance with Buffy wasn’t healthy, but his friendship with her certainly was.
James Marsters 2002.
So, it seemed completely out of character and unnecessarily disturbing when Spike attempts to rape Buffy in the Season 6 episode “Seeing Read.” The violent and stomach-churning scene left many fans feeling “betrayed” by the show because there never seemed to be any real repercussions for Spike’s actions. The show tries to manipulate the viewers into rooting for Spike. He uses this experience to inspire him to become a better person. This leads to his Season 7 arc in which he gains Buffy’s love and becomes the eventual hero of the show.
This episode was condemned CNN, Salon Vulture as irresponsible or harmful storytelling.
Marsters, who were Spike’s actor, told Vice in 2017 that the “scene sent me into therapy, which turned out to be a very good thing for me.”
He also told Vice that although he still thought the scene was a “worthy risk,” he understands why fans find it such a misstep.
“We did traumatize the audience maybe a little too much,” he told Vice at the time. “I’ll now routinely turn down roles with rape scenes in them. Not again.”
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