Though I think this is an intersting article about fan clamoring for a return to the Buffy/Angel universe, that and $3.50 will buy me a latte at Starbucks. There’s a poll up asking who we’d most like to see in a spin-off. (I’d pick Giles, but didn’t the BBC’s Watcher stall at the starting gate? And we already know Eliza Dushku would rather ride the merry-go-round on Fox Fridays than reprise Faith.)
I wonder who is going to win
I told him I would be very interested in doing it within a five-year time span, but being that the character is a vampire, I didn’t think that I was the guy to play him after that because, with everyone who played a vampire on that show, it was a prime concern that you try to maintain the look that you were hired with, that you really try not to age.
Jimmy boy, I think you already missed the boat.
Now, I was living in a tent in the middle of the Outback during the last season of Angel, so I missed it, but I wasn’t exactly crying in my billy can. I thought the show jumped the shark ’round about the time Cordelia jumped in bed with Angel’s supernaturally-aged son, and not even the appearance of the awesome Mrs. Fishburne rescued it for me. And the addition of Spike didn’t whet my appetite either.
I don’t like ensouled Spike.
But it doesn’t stop me from watching the reruns on TNT. In the one I was watchign the other day, Spike got “corporealized” and proceeded to hook up with Harmony (whom I always thought was a highly amusing character, btw). And there he is, on top of her, thrusting away (great undying soulful love for Buffster, by the way — I love how both vamps whore around L.A. while still holding onto the idea that they are competing for the Slayer) and we get a close up view of his craggy old face, and all the nooks and crannies that the cakes of pancake makeup aren’t quite hiding.
And it occurs to me: Spike is getting old!
Now, “old” and “unattractive” are not the same things at all — after all, I’d still do Paul Newman if given half a chance, and he’s what? Three hundred? But Spike isn’t quit pulling off the Billy Idol thing anymore. He looks more like Billy Idol in The Wedding Singer. That’s not a compliment.
So Spike spinoff? Five years or not, only if he plays a supernaturally aged vampire. He can be a 45 year old vampire, no problem, but he’s not going to play a 25 year old one anymore. Sorry. And I think he should lose the bleach. It doesn’t become his maturity.
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