Bag of Ideas

whedonesqued:

From a Joss Whedon interview conducted back in 2005

Could Serenity take place in the same universe as Buffy but the monsters were taken care of long ago?

I think you could make an argument for it, but I wouldn’t. The only  thing we ever thought of doing is having a drunken and very miserable  Spike at a bar just sitting there going, ‘Nothing changes. Trust me, nothing changes.’  That would’ve been in our decadent era. That would have been like season six. But no, I have to think about them as totally separate  because they have different sensibilities and they have different sets  of rules. It’s very important that Serenity be grounded. I had to go  into outer space to come back down to earth but Buffy was a fantasy, a  metaphor for rites of passage of our lives and Serenity is something else.

headcanon is that the buffyverse is a parallel world to the whoneverse. And spike gets into the whoneverse (through that friend of his, The Doctor (he wasn’t lying, he isn’t the Doctor, the Doctor is just his friend)) and then the whoneverse becomes the ‘Verse on it’s way to the grander human empire, and meanwhile Spike is there, and he lasts until the 51st century when he joins the Time Agency and is partnered with a man we know as Captain Jack Harkness.