Dear Tumblr...

[fenderlove]

Stop attributing all BtVS quotes to Joss Whedon, please. He didn't write every episode, he didn't direct every episode, so stop taking really good quotes written by other people and attributing them solely to Whedon. I'm sure some Whedon fans would be upset if something he did write, like "Once More With Feeling," was misattributed to another writer. If you can't find or are too lazy to look up who wrote what episode, then just attribute the quote to the character who was speaking. Television can be tricky because so many people have the potential to have input on what's being written (all the more reason to just attribute quote to a character instead). However, sometimes it's is like taking a quote from The Hobbit and attributing it to Peter Jackson instead of J.R.R. Tolkien just because Jackson is filming the movie. The quote may appear in both print and film, but Tolkien's the one who wrote it.

With that being said, did Whedon write Spike's speech in "Touched?" I was under the impression that Rebecca Rand Kirshner wrote the episode and therefore the speech was her writing. However, if someone said something in an interview or convention Q&A to say otherwise, I'd like to know to satisfy my own curiosity.

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure he did write that speech.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I kinda think Joss did write it (then again, it also sounded virtually identical to a speech made by Riley so then the answer would be ... which time?)

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

This is utterly tangential, but I never can find fandom things on tumblr, yet everyone else can.

Gabrielle