With you 100%. What stupid things to say. Buffy was the bad boyfriend, for crissakes. If you just reversed the gender roles, no one would even think of calling male-Buffy the victim.
I'd always thought JM was one of the cool ones (in a geeky way) -- everything I'd read about him before seemed to imply that he was smart, that he respected the writers and the fans, etc. I guess it's good that I'm disillusioned before Tampa.
Oh, well. I guess I'll just add his to the list of things that make me believe BtVS (and Spike in particular) just had a life of it's own, and no one, neither writers nor actors, could stop Spike from going along his merry way and subverting canon all the while. I've never been able to link JM and Spike -- as devilpiglet once said, he must have pulled that character out of his ass. JM is the real anti-Spike -- and if we could interview the character, he'd probably be annoyed at being associated with JM.
Grr, Argh. I hope the AtS writers ignore what he wants.
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Date: 2003-06-09 02:53 pm (UTC)With you 100%. What stupid things to say. Buffy was the bad boyfriend, for crissakes. If you just reversed the gender roles, no one would even think of calling male-Buffy the victim.
I'd always thought JM was one of the cool ones (in a geeky way) -- everything I'd read about him before seemed to imply that he was smart, that he respected the writers and the fans, etc. I guess it's good that I'm disillusioned before Tampa.
Oh, well. I guess I'll just add his to the list of things that make me believe BtVS (and Spike in particular) just had a life of it's own, and no one, neither writers nor actors, could stop Spike from going along his merry way and subverting canon all the while. I've never been able to link JM and Spike -- as
Grr, Argh. I hope the AtS writers ignore what he wants.