This is the Whedonverse, Willingham. Write with wit or get out. ;-)
After perusing them - I'd say that's the main problem. They aren't witty. Which is partly why Spike is so OOC - because that's about 80% of the character - the snarky wit. If you can't write snark - you probably shouldn't be writing Spike. (That said, Herself_nyc who is anything but witty, was able to pull of an interesting Spike characterization without wit. So it can be done. And there are episodes in both series that Spike is more poet than snark - which work beautifully. Willingham can't do either. Plus the comics - sort of call for wit - they are heavily dialogue based.)
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Date: 2010-05-02 10:39 pm (UTC)After perusing them - I'd say that's the main problem. They aren't witty.
Which is partly why Spike is so OOC - because that's about 80% of the character - the snarky wit. If you can't write snark - you probably shouldn't be writing Spike. (That said, Herself_nyc who is anything but witty, was able to pull of an interesting Spike characterization without wit. So it can be done. And there are episodes in both series that Spike is more poet than snark - which work beautifully. Willingham can't do either. Plus the comics - sort of call for wit - they are heavily dialogue based.)