Ugh. should be "where's the epitome of maternalism".
Sorry, I just don't see how this story can work with that one story plot line hanging. It's like looking at a painting - and seeing one spot that is uncompleted...your eye is constantly drawn to that piece of negative space - it may be tiny, just a dab of sky not colored in, but there it is. You may not even notice it at first, but something about the painting seems off, unsatisfying, incomplete and you desperately want to fix it. Or a piece of fanfic or post where someone has left out one word...
That's how Spike's absence feels. It's glaring because of all the parts filled in. We've had an appearence by every living major character but him, including a few really dead ones. A central character whose storyline was not cleanly wrapped up...is missing. Which I could shrug off, except the writer keeps dropping little hints drawing my attention to it. And I've read and seen enough of Whedon's work to know that is intentional. This is a guy who wrote a soloiguey to Negative Space after all.
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Date: 2010-01-14 12:26 am (UTC)Sorry, I just don't see how this story can work with that one story plot line hanging. It's like looking at a painting - and seeing one spot that is uncompleted...your eye is constantly drawn to that piece of negative space - it may be tiny, just a dab of sky not colored in, but there it is. You may not even notice it at first, but something about the painting seems off, unsatisfying, incomplete and you desperately want to fix it. Or a piece of fanfic or post where someone has left out one word...
That's how Spike's absence feels. It's glaring because of all the parts filled in. We've had an appearence by every living major character but him, including a few really dead ones.
A central character whose storyline was not cleanly wrapped up...is missing. Which I could shrug off, except the writer keeps dropping little hints drawing my attention to it. And I've read and seen enough of Whedon's work to know that is intentional. This is a guy who wrote a soloiguey to Negative Space after all.