Spoiler for the New Spike Series.

[fenderlove]

Straight from the horse's mouth, via Buffyfest Blog's interview with Brian Lynch at NYComic Con.

A spoiler for the Spike series that BL wrote recently. This is the opening scene of the Spike series. Apparently, the day after everything went back to normal in L.A., lots of screenwriters clamored to the studios pitching movie ideas about everyone being sucked into hell. In the Spike series, Spike goes to see one of the movies that got made. It's called "Last Angel in Hell" and it's a Jerry Bruckheimer-esque flick with Nick Cage as Angel and since they couldn't make Gunn the bad guy (something about you can't make the black guy the bad guy anymore), so they made him the wacky sidekick played by Hurly from Lost? The studio execs decided Angel needed a love interest in the movie so they made Spike a woman so that s/he could be the love interest... and Betta George is a dog in the movie. The real Angel and Spike go to see the movie the day it comes out, not realizing that the other would be there, so it's very awkward for them to be seeing Nick Cage!Angel and blonde girl!Spike kissing on screen. Spike gets a little pissy that "This is what people will remember me as!" because Hollywood decided to Hollywoodize the story to make money off of it.

If you want to read the rest of my transcript of the interview, please visit the ATF thread in the Comic Section at CDS.

Comments

[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

I also don't like Spider, but I don't think it's because I'm a Spuffy.

I suppose with Spider Lynch was trying too hard. He threw in all the compelling bits from Spike's previous romantic relationships. The result was overkill.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

I agree. He also doesn't understand how a seductive femme fatale works either. Femme fatales don't usually chain up the noir detectives and force sex upon them... or stab them in the groin! I keep harping on the groin thing, but a while back when this Spider issue came up about her sexually assaulting Spike, Brian Lynch said something along the lines of "What guy would turn down a hot chick like that?" and I wanted to reply, "A guy that had just been stabbed in the penis with a red hot iron ore poker." which is what had happened to our poor Spike.