If Joss did want to pretend that Spike never existed, it'd be the first time ever that a major relationship just went poof from the 'verse without leaving any impact.
I just think that Joss may feel the threesome pic and the one oblique reference is quite enough. He probably feels it's enough of an acknowledgement and would be astonished to learn that people want more.
I'm sorry. I just don't think he has a role for Spike in this story and that there are certain aspects of the Spike/Buffy story he would rather avoid bringing up again (even though he signed off on them in the show).
FWIW, I think he hasn't a place for Angel either. Angel only appeared in no 20 because that was a special issue showcasing the defunct Buffy cartoon. Joss didn't write it, and if that issue had been missed out, the story wouldn't have suffered at all because we didn't learn anything in it that we didn't already know.
Riley, however, does have a role to play if only because he's a soldier. That IMO is why he's in it.
But no, I don't think Joss sees Spike as having any particular meaning to Buffy any more and I'm not expecting him to turn up in the story. Like I said, I would love to be wrong, though even if I am, I would be very nervous about what Joss would do with him.
I don't want to go into full slam mode until Lynch has had a chance to tell the whole story. But my real problems aren't related to Spike.
Likewise. There are far more egregious errors than anything that's been done with Spike, though him being my favourite character, I of course feel it more when I think he's been written badly.
You know, I don't think Joss is exploring Buffy's darkness in the way you think. I don't mean that he expects us to endorse everything that Buffy's done, but I don't think he's aware quite how badly she's coming across. I would expect her friends to behave rather differently towards her than just to complacently accept everything she does if we were really supposed to disapprove of it so much.
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I just think that Joss may feel the threesome pic and the one oblique reference is quite enough. He probably feels it's enough of an acknowledgement and would be astonished to learn that people want more.
I'm sorry. I just don't think he has a role for Spike in this story and that there are certain aspects of the Spike/Buffy story he would rather avoid bringing up again (even though he signed off on them in the show).
FWIW, I think he hasn't a place for Angel either. Angel only appeared in no 20 because that was a special issue showcasing the defunct Buffy cartoon. Joss didn't write it, and if that issue had been missed out, the story wouldn't have suffered at all because we didn't learn anything in it that we didn't already know.
Riley, however, does have a role to play if only because he's a soldier. That IMO is why he's in it.
But no, I don't think Joss sees Spike as having any particular meaning to Buffy any more and I'm not expecting him to turn up in the story. Like I said, I would love to be wrong, though even if I am, I would be very nervous about what Joss would do with him.
I don't want to go into full slam mode until Lynch has had a chance to tell the whole story. But my real problems aren't related to Spike.
Likewise. There are far more egregious errors than anything that's been done with Spike, though him being my favourite character, I of course feel it more when I think he's been written badly.
You know, I don't think Joss is exploring Buffy's darkness in the way you think. I don't mean that he expects us to endorse everything that Buffy's done, but I don't think he's aware quite how badly she's coming across. I would expect her friends to behave rather differently towards her than just to complacently accept everything she does if we were really supposed to disapprove of it so much.