No need to apologize. :) I appreciate when people take the time to comment on old posts.
Unlike others, I do think Spike is going to get screwed with in S9. He'll do something. Maybe not Dawn or attack Buffy, but he'll do something.
I can't see him do anything in-character to really screw up, but I can totally see Joss turning him as OOC as some of the other characters were in S8 and making pod!Spike screw up somehow.
It's like a bashfic characterization and the writers wanted us to like that she was getting trashed.
Ooh, interesting interpretation. I can see how one comes to that conclusion. To me it felt like Joss was deliberately having her do OOC stuff (well, he probably didn't think it was OOC) to tear her down simply so he can (at least one would hope) build her back up again. But building-up again stories are only interesting if the tearing down wasn't contrived and OOC, which IMO, S8!Buffy's characterization was. It seems like laziness to me to ruin Buffy's life again when she become such a mature, happy woman in S7.
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I can't see him do anything in-character to really screw up, but I can totally see Joss turning him as OOC as some of the other characters were in S8 and making pod!Spike screw up somehow.
Ooh, interesting interpretation. I can see how one comes to that conclusion. To me it felt like Joss was deliberately having her do OOC stuff (well, he probably didn't think it was OOC) to tear her down simply so he can (at least one would hope) build her back up again. But building-up again stories are only interesting if the tearing down wasn't contrived and OOC, which IMO, S8!Buffy's characterization was. It seems like laziness to me to ruin Buffy's life again when she become such a mature, happy woman in S7.
Me neither.