One thing I'm glad to hear is that James said nice things about Spike post-soul; because I was really puzzled about that - I mean, if JM couldn't tell that post-soul, Spike had been redeemed, then I really, really wasn't watching the character he thought he was acting!
But I can easily see that pre-soul, JM and ME thought they were telling a story about a "bad boyfriend" but it didn't come across that way, and it bothers them that they somehow missed it. It took me until late in February of S6 before I finally had an epiphany and thought, wait - the whole reason I'm not understanding this story is that I don't think that Spike is as evil as ME thinks Spike is. Once I grasped that the season made sense (though JM is right, it didn't come across that way -their execution wasn't good).
But in S7 we've got a redemption story happening, quite obviously, on all levels, and I would have been astonished if JM hadn't realised that.
Feeling vastly relieved now! Sure, I can buy an evilish S6 Spike, though it took me awhile to grasp it at the time. But if I wasn't looking at a redeemed S7 Spike then I really DIDN'T get the story!
re: sex during the blackout - JM is right, IMHO, Spike would never have started anything, after the AR, or indeed post-soul. But Buffy had an awfully purposeful look in her eye ... we were quite deliberately left to believe, each one of us, whatever we want to believe.
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Date: 2003-06-09 10:49 pm (UTC)But I can easily see that pre-soul, JM and ME thought they were telling a story about a "bad boyfriend" but it didn't come across that way, and it bothers them that they somehow missed it. It took me until late in February of S6 before I finally had an epiphany and thought, wait - the whole reason I'm not understanding this story is that I don't think that Spike is as evil as ME thinks Spike is. Once I grasped that the season made sense (though JM is right, it didn't come across that way -their execution wasn't good).
But in S7 we've got a redemption story happening, quite obviously, on all levels, and I would have been astonished if JM hadn't realised that.
Feeling vastly relieved now! Sure, I can buy an evilish S6 Spike, though it took me awhile to grasp it at the time. But if I wasn't looking at a redeemed S7 Spike then I really DIDN'T get the story!
re: sex during the blackout - JM is right, IMHO, Spike would never have started anything, after the AR, or indeed post-soul. But Buffy had an awfully purposeful look in her eye ... we were quite deliberately left to believe, each one of us, whatever we want to believe.