That was a lovely letter, Lena (I love your name!)

I can understand if Scott likes Angel more than Spike, it is a matter of taste after all, we all like different characters. Even Joss has a favorite character: Willow. I'm sure whatever Scott thinks of Spike won't affect how Spike would be written when he appears in S8 (fingers crossed for a Spike guest star) because he's just the editor. Joss and the other writers are the ones who affect the story, not Scott. Even Marti Noxon was justified by Joss that whatever she wrote, he was the one to agree with it, and if the later seasons didn't meet up with people's expectations, then it's Joss' fault.

Character-bashing is an awful, awful thing in my book whoever that character was (unless it's a villain like Warren) and sadly, it's been a massive Spike-hate over there in SlayAlive after the latest incident. I was pointing out to someone that he can't call Spike a rapist, murderer after he got a soul and he replied that he's entitled to his opinion, I was like, "Oooookay, you're that type of fan." :) You can't reason with a biased hater no matter what you did. *shrug*