Good writers don't need to take another character down in order to build their favourite character up
Funnily, it wasn't about building writer's favorite character up. The only character Spike interacts with in this fic is permanently depressed Buffy who can't be happy after her friends were gone (because Spike has left them die in the Hellmouth). Buffy can't stop thinking about them while her Slayer duties alternate with seldom one-night stands. Meanwhile Willow and Xander are stuck in a "Langoliers"-type dimension (a replica of our universe but sans people). Then Buffy gets a phone call from Giles who tells her that Connor's trip from Quor-toth ripped open the fabric of reality and thinned the dimensional walls.
At this point I decided that this is the reason of such radical interpretation of the character of Spike: the writer weaves an intricate plot and needs souled Spike as a bad guy because sans soul Spike can't be granted the membership of the Council and the writer wants him there to make him more effective "secret" enemy of Buffy.
My spoiler whore's imagination immediately created a scenario: Buffy tries to reach her friends, Willow and Xander somehow figure out her intentions and try to reach her from their side, evil!Spike concocts some nefarious plan to destroy their reunion...
And I was wrong. The next time we meet Buffy she unexplicably works together with Spike on some demon case unrelated to thinning dimensional walls. She continues to hate Spike. She repeats to Spike how much she dislikes him and tells that his apologies are just noise. She reminds him about his evil deeds, and says that he never knew her at all. He doesn't care and continues to piss her off. Then Spike dies (the circumstances of his death are not disclosed) and Buffy tell Angel that she hates Spike even after his death. Then Buffy dies (the circumstances of her death are not disclosed either) and joins Xander and Willow in their dimension. Period, end of the story.
So, the writer didn't need souled Spike as a bad guy to build up another character or to move the plot forward. The writer just wanted to portray souled Spike as a bad person, period.
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Date: 2006-11-14 06:56 pm (UTC)Funnily, it wasn't about building writer's favorite character up. The only character Spike interacts with in this fic is permanently depressed Buffy who can't be happy after her friends were gone (because Spike has left them die in the Hellmouth). Buffy can't stop thinking about them while her Slayer duties alternate with seldom one-night stands. Meanwhile Willow and Xander are stuck in a "Langoliers"-type dimension (a replica of our universe but sans people). Then Buffy gets a phone call from Giles who tells her that Connor's trip from Quor-toth ripped open the fabric of reality and thinned the dimensional walls.
At this point I decided that this is the reason of such radical interpretation of the character of Spike: the writer weaves an intricate plot and needs souled Spike as a bad guy because sans soul Spike can't be granted the membership of the Council and the writer wants him there to make him more effective "secret" enemy of Buffy.
My spoiler whore's imagination immediately created a scenario: Buffy tries to reach her friends, Willow and Xander somehow figure out her intentions and try to reach her from their side, evil!Spike concocts some nefarious plan to destroy their reunion...
And I was wrong. The next time we meet Buffy she unexplicably works together with Spike on some demon case unrelated to thinning dimensional walls. She continues to hate Spike. She repeats to Spike how much she dislikes him and tells that his apologies are just noise. She reminds him about his evil deeds, and says that he never knew her at all. He doesn't care and continues to piss her off. Then Spike dies (the circumstances of his death are not disclosed) and Buffy tell Angel that she hates Spike even after his death. Then Buffy dies (the circumstances of her death are not disclosed either) and joins Xander and Willow in their dimension. Period, end of the story.
So, the writer didn't need souled Spike as a bad guy to build up another character or to move the plot forward. The writer just wanted to portray souled Spike as a bad person, period.