The writers should have been less ambiguous about Spike’s humanity. I admire that he still managed to love while not having a soul, but I feel some of that characterization happened due to the writers not knowing how to handle his character.
Hmm, I don’t know. I think the ambiguity is actually okay. Sometimes, the inner lives of a character are best left unexplained as a way of hinting more character depth, especially with things that perhaps even the character is not entirely conscious of. And in Spike’s case, they may have risked making his psychology / inner life overly simple if they’d been less ambiguous.
Nearly all of that came out of James Marsters’ choices. I reblogged a video intereview where he talks about it at WizardWorld Philadelphia Comic Con 2012 a bit back. I don’t have the word for word. Here is the video. Basically, he kept playing the lines with real emotion and Romance and Joss kept telling him that Spike was soulless vampire and reminding James that Spike was going to be killed off and to stop with the humanity. But James doesn’t do characters without humanity. So he kept putting it in and as he says, Joss eventually came over to his side.
The Crew of the Serenity: Then and Now
I’m sorry, all I heard there was “The Sex of the Sexy: Sex and Sex”.
That entire bottom picture. IN MY BUNK.
Damn River!
1) Okay, so I hate Moffat forever for associating that name with something else. I have ranted and ranted about how that was not an okay thing to do, and that, as someone writing in television science fiction, he really should have been more respectful and not reused a recognisably unique name like that.
2) Nathan Fillion also playing Castle and even Caleb doesn’t jar me. He doesn’t even look that different, but there is no mix up in my head. No uneasy feeling left from Caleb, no exess silliness left from Castle. He will always be Captain Mal naturally, I guess, even though I have no problem believing him in the other roles. It took me less than one episode to totally be freaked and pissed at him as Caleb.
3) It’s Gina Torres that is jarring me now, after Angel Season 4. I just can’t look at her and not be weirded. She was sooo good as Jasmine and Jasmine was such a clever character that… I don’t know. I also think Jasmine and Zoe hold themselves more similarly than Caleb and Mal. That might be it. I don’t know.
