I suspected at least some of that dialogue had to be coming from the play, but you're right, it fits them so well.
Have you seen Marina Frants' The Geekado? It purports to explain the structural weirdnesses of S4 with words that (I believe) go to songs from The Mikado. It's great fun although, again, I say this as a G&S outsider...
Thank you for saying that evil Spike isn't All Angel's Fault. Although I'm willing to buy that Angel warped him some, even if he hadn't Spike would still be an evil vampire. Ahem. And yes, he clearly is fairly flexible in his interests - he's devoted to Passions, after all, and the TV hadn't even been invented when he was turned...
I think, though, that capturing that flexibility and range of interests is really hard in any fic set pre-series. I've always been a bit cautious of reading Spike/Dru fic, because a) they always came across to me as sort of a static couple, largely because it doesn't look as though Dru has ever changed much, post-turning, and b) much as I enjoy them together in S2, I really don't have much taste for whole stories of watching them eat people. But on the other hand, you can hardly write Spike without Dru, pre-series... At any rate, I admire your willingness to tackle them while they're both still evilevilevil. *g*
This reply is turning into a meta, so I'll just stop there.
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Date: 2009-01-16 01:09 am (UTC)Have you seen Marina Frants' The Geekado? It purports to explain the structural weirdnesses of S4 with words that (I believe) go to songs from The Mikado. It's great fun although, again, I say this as a G&S outsider...
Thank you for saying that evil Spike isn't All Angel's Fault. Although I'm willing to buy that Angel warped him some, even if he hadn't Spike would still be an evil vampire. Ahem. And yes, he clearly is fairly flexible in his interests - he's devoted to Passions, after all, and the TV hadn't even been invented when he was turned...
I think, though, that capturing that flexibility and range of interests is really hard in any fic set pre-series. I've always been a bit cautious of reading Spike/Dru fic, because a) they always came across to me as sort of a static couple, largely because it doesn't look as though Dru has ever changed much, post-turning, and b) much as I enjoy them together in S2, I really don't have much taste for whole stories of watching them eat people. But on the other hand, you can hardly write Spike without Dru, pre-series... At any rate, I admire your willingness to tackle them while they're both still evilevilevil. *g*
This reply is turning into a meta, so I'll just stop there.
You... say that as though it's a bad thing. *g*
And hey, I notice we share a birthday!
Hey, cool!