Marti Noxon said about the episode 6.11 Gone:
“The bit when Spike seems to be by himself when, in fact, he was having sex with the invisible Buffy was something that Joss and David Fury got all excited about, whereas I was like ‘Ewww!’ It was disturbing to me; it still is. It just shows you that even I have my limits. We also got some criticism that the trio wasn’t threatening enough, but I wasn’t really hip to that. We just thought they were so funny. Maybe they amused us more than did others, but we thought their motivation was so interesting. I think what people were objecting to was that there wasn’t the particular momentum that season, like, ‘Here it comes; here comes the Big Bad.’ Maybe we were being a little more experimental. I just think we were tired of running the same scenario, because you can only say, ‘It’s the worst thing ever’ so many times before you start feeling like the biggest liar in the world. So the whole season was structured differently from anything we’d done and I enjoyed that.”
Related episodes: 6.11 Gone
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somethingblue on November 4th, 2005 at 3:43 am
The best part of the scene in Gone when Xander caughter Spike and invisible Buffy (aside from Buffy sucking his ear) was after Spike says”…and if we bump into each other, I’ll clue her that you’re on the lookout.” and Xander, with one of the BEST expressions he has ever made, says “After your … (gestures) exercises.”
HA! That cracks me up!!!
Abby M. on November 4th, 2005 at 3:56 am
I remember when I was watching that scene, my mom walked in and was like, “Whats so funny?” and I just started to laugh!
MagicBone on November 4th, 2005 at 11:40 pm
That was hilarious!!
Smash on November 12th, 2005 at 8:36 am
I was just on the IMDB message boards, and I just feel really compelled to thank everybody on this site for not using the term “Spuffy”. Man, is that ever annoying.
Mysteryend on August 10th, 2006 at 7:32 pm
How hot was spike in this episode!!
Wynter on August 10th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
Spike is hot like…all the time.
I pictured something cooler. More ILM, less Ed Wood.* | Let's Fold Scarves on December 2nd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
[…] was shorter than my still curled toes remember but I could have done without the ear nibbling. [Interestingly Marti Noxon wasn’t keen on the concept of invisible sex but Joss Whedon and David Fury were which makes me have kinder […]
HarFang on December 13th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Wow. That’s one harsh review you’re quoting there. While Gone is one of the very few episodes in which I actually dislike Buffy, I can accept it since it was clearly done on purpose (just as in When She Was Bad, although that episode also let her feel for her).
That being said, the “sex” scene is really more hilarious than disgusting. And despite the weird invisibility factor, this is the ONLY time they don’t miss the bed and don’t end up sore and limpy, so it probably qualifies as one of their most normal “dates”…
Personnally, I find the scenes in Doublemeat Palace, Dead Things much more disturbing (obviously).
In Gone, at least, Buffy and Spike seem to be enjoying themselves thoroughly;
so even though I feel rather bad for Xander in that scene, Spike is so shameless and smug that it makes me laugh every time. (Right, I’m partial. So what?)