The argument is, in part, being made by the exact same people, using the exact same language, and linking the two. Including "if you're a Draco fan, I bet you were a Spike fan -- or would've been if you were in BtVS fandom".
Hee! Why am I not surprised?
Actually, I'm a fan of redemption storylines.
I like well-written redemption-storylines, too, but I think it takes a good writer to pull it off (so that it doesn't become cheesy). When it came to Spike, I liked Evil!Spike, I loved Ambiguous-but-ultimately-no-good!Spike, and when it seemed that the authors wanted to pull a redemption-storyline I was wary, thinking "yes, this could be really interesting, but are the writers really able to pull it off without destroying the character?" But the thing is, the discussion on "Spike's redemption" never seemed to be focused on "will it destroy the character or not", which would have been a discussion I could have had so much more understanding of. Instead it was all about "morals" and "he's irredeemable, because 'Canon say vampires are inherently evil'", which just ended up firmly placing me in the "redemptionista-camp", even though I wasn't really sure that that was the development I thought would be the best for him, story-wise.
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Date: 2004-08-31 05:56 pm (UTC)Hee! Why am I not surprised?
Actually, I'm a fan of redemption storylines.
I like well-written redemption-storylines, too, but I think it takes a good writer to pull it off (so that it doesn't become cheesy). When it came to Spike, I liked Evil!Spike, I loved Ambiguous-but-ultimately-no-good!Spike, and when it seemed that the authors wanted to pull a redemption-storyline I was wary, thinking "yes, this could be really interesting, but are the writers really able to pull it off without destroying the character?" But the thing is, the discussion on "Spike's redemption" never seemed to be focused on "will it destroy the character or not", which would have been a discussion I could have had so much more understanding of. Instead it was all about "morals" and "he's irredeemable, because 'Canon say vampires are inherently evil'", which just ended up firmly placing me in the "redemptionista-camp", even though I wasn't really sure that that was the development I thought would be the best for him, story-wise.