I hate that Spike and Willow are leaving. Can't they have their arcs in the Buffy book? Arcs that mingle together with the Xander arc and the Dawn arc and the Buffy arc? It's more interesting when the characters get together.
Dark Horse: Yes, but that's not commercially feasible for us. We need to create a franchise. Lots of comic books under one brand. You'd buy Willow, Spike, Ange&Faith, and Buffy...Plus we get to employ more people. From a business perspective this makes more sense.
Me: But...aren't you expending a lot more money on a franchise that is losing readers like flies? Make more sense to spend the time and effort on bringing in the readers to the comic you are currently working on.
Dark Horse: We're doing fine on the Buffy comic. Don't pay attention to those numbers. Our fans have asked for a Spike mini and we're giving it to them!
Me: alrighty then...have fun with that.
All I asked for was a little Xander/Spike interaction, but this season is exactly like the last two seasons of the television show and even worse in separating the characters into couples that rarely if never interact with each other. Xander and Willow never shared a scene together since the comics started for God's sake, it's like they're not even friends let alone best friends.
Unfortunately the moment Spike and Buffy had hot sex - the Spike interactions with the other characters diminished greatly. It's poor writing in my opinion - because this doesn't happen in reality. Or in novels.
From what I've read or heard in the commentary...apparently the problem was Spike had great chemistry with everyone, and the writers freaked. They saw the chemistry with him and Dawn, realized people might read it the wrong way and decided to keep them apart as much as possible. Same deal with Willow. And decided once Xander found out about the Spike/Buffy relationship - he wouldn't be able to handle Spike any more than he could Angel.
From their perspective, someone like Xander would hate Buffy sleeping with Spike, hate that she cared for him, much like he did Angel. In short the writers don't perceive them as friends. The other characters, from the writers pov, tolerated and tolerate Spike for Buffy. Much as they tolerate Angel for Buffy. (Except for Willow, who I can't quite get a read on either way - Willow's been written unevenly for quite a while now.)
[These aren't my views, but they do appear to be the "writers" views.]
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Dark Horse: Yes, but that's not commercially feasible for us. We need to create a franchise. Lots of comic books under one brand. You'd buy Willow, Spike, Ange&Faith, and Buffy...Plus we get to employ more people. From a business perspective this makes more sense.
Me: But...aren't you expending a lot more money on a franchise that is losing readers like flies? Make more sense to spend the time and effort on bringing in the readers to the comic you are currently working on.
Dark Horse: We're doing fine on the Buffy comic. Don't pay attention
to those numbers. Our fans have asked for a Spike mini and we're giving it to them!
Me: alrighty then...have fun with that.
All I asked for was a little Xander/Spike interaction, but this season is exactly like the last two seasons of the television show and even worse in separating the characters into couples that rarely if never interact with each other. Xander and Willow never shared a scene together since the comics started for God's sake, it's like they're not even friends let alone best friends.
Unfortunately the moment Spike and Buffy had hot sex - the Spike interactions with the other characters diminished greatly. It's poor writing in my opinion - because this doesn't happen in reality.
Or in novels.
From what I've read or heard in the commentary...apparently the problem was Spike had great chemistry with everyone, and the writers freaked. They saw the chemistry with him and Dawn, realized people might read it the wrong way and decided to keep them apart as much as possible. Same deal with Willow. And decided once Xander found out about the Spike/Buffy relationship - he wouldn't be able to handle Spike any more than he could Angel.
From their perspective, someone like Xander would hate Buffy sleeping with Spike, hate that she cared for him, much like he did Angel.
In short the writers don't perceive them as friends. The other characters, from the writers pov, tolerated and tolerate Spike for Buffy. Much as they tolerate Angel for Buffy. (Except for Willow, who I can't quite get a read on either way - Willow's been written unevenly for quite a while now.)
[These aren't my views, but they do appear to be the "writers" views.]