Yes, I think I read somewhere that she said he didn't wash enough. Or was it that he smoked? I can't remember.
Re: your point 1) I had never heard that before. I thought they set it up very deliberately to be exactly what it was, hence the lack of music and the stark lighting. Can you tell me where you heard this? If true, of course, it makes me even more angry that they did this to Spike. Why didn't someone tell James he was doing it wrong?
Mind you, it wouldn't be the only time such a thing happened to him. I definitely remember Fury saying the the Spike/Harmony desk-hump in Destiny came across as much harsher than he meant it to.
I'm also a little puzzled by your 2). Of course, I know about the Luke/Laura thing. Could hardly miss it, especially as Jane E said that Joss and co had cited it to her as a reason why it would be okay to do the AR and still have Spuffy only for Joss after BtVS ended to say that Luke/Laura was the reason why they didn't do proper re-Spuffy in season 7.
However, I've not ever had the impression that he thought BtVS was a completely different beast, as it were, to what the audience thought they were watching. I thought he was always fairly clear that it was a sort of supernatural soap.
As for fans arguing about whether or not Spike's arc in season 7 was down to fan pressure, I've seen it said many times that pretty much everything to do with Spike in the whole show after season 4 is 'fan service.'
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Date: 2009-11-12 10:48 am (UTC)Yes, I think I read somewhere that she said he didn't wash enough. Or was it that he smoked? I can't remember.
Re: your point 1) I had never heard that before. I thought they set it up very deliberately to be exactly what it was, hence the lack of music and the stark lighting. Can you tell me where you heard this? If true, of course, it makes me even more angry that they did this to Spike. Why didn't someone tell James he was doing it wrong?
Mind you, it wouldn't be the only time such a thing happened to him. I definitely remember Fury saying the the Spike/Harmony desk-hump in Destiny came across as much harsher than he meant it to.
I'm also a little puzzled by your 2). Of course, I know about the Luke/Laura thing. Could hardly miss it, especially as Jane E said that Joss and co had cited it to her as a reason why it would be okay to do the AR and still have Spuffy only for Joss after BtVS ended to say that Luke/Laura was the reason why they didn't do proper re-Spuffy in season 7.
However, I've not ever had the impression that he thought BtVS was a completely different beast, as it were, to what the audience thought they were watching. I thought he was always fairly clear that it was a sort of supernatural soap.
As for fans arguing about whether or not Spike's arc in season 7 was down to fan pressure, I've seen it said many times that pretty much everything to do with Spike in the whole show after season 4 is 'fan service.'