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Rewind. Shuffle. Replay. by cloud_forest
Chapter: The Witch
Jane
11/06/2011 01:41 pm
Can't wait to see Gile's reaction to Spike, he just loves to rub people up the wrong way. Looking forward to more.
10/27/2011 05:49 pm
I like the idea, but so far it's too close to how Angel acted... the speaking is different, but the behavior isn't different enough. Hope there will be none of the kissing and screaming and 'barely controlled demon' business that was the episode Angel...
If you're not gonna change anything, then you're not creating your own work, you're just slotting Spike into Angel's role and it borders on plagiarism as well as boredom.
Spike is a very different person from Angel. It's not just dialogue changes, but behavioral changes and those cause PLOT changes and affect how other people act too. In fact, only the inevitable events will remain the same... The interpersonal should be vastly different. Spike would have gone down into the tunnels with Buffy, even if he'd remained out of the fight at the Bronze in order to let Buffy come into her own. He's not as cautious as Angel, and he's not one to sit on the sidelines.
Blue
http://www.tthfanfic.org/authors.php?no=12717&list=profile
Hope to see more, different, imaginative stuff... Be adventurous! Will keep reading... for now.
If you're not gonna change anything, then you're not creating your own work, you're just slotting Spike into Angel's role and it borders on plagiarism as well as boredom.
Spike is a very different person from Angel. It's not just dialogue changes, but behavioral changes and those cause PLOT changes and affect how other people act too. In fact, only the inevitable events will remain the same... The interpersonal should be vastly different. Spike would have gone down into the tunnels with Buffy, even if he'd remained out of the fight at the Bronze in order to let Buffy come into her own. He's not as cautious as Angel, and he's not one to sit on the sidelines.
http://www.tthfanfic.org/authors.php?no=12717&list=profile
Hope to see more, different, imaginative stuff... Be adventurous! Will keep reading... for now.
Hey there,
Thank you for everything that you've said. I really appreciate your review, and hearing from someone who's not in love with the direction I've been taking it so far.
As far as the interpersonal stuff goes, I've tried to stay true to who I imagine this version of Spike to be. Although we have yet to learn this as fact in this universe, this isn't a Spike who spent over 100 years as a gleefully soulless demon, having lots of adventures and rowdy fun... so I'm imagining him to be a slightly different incarnation than what we saw on BtVS. As such, I've tried to reconcile the Spike that we all know with a Spike who had a completely different history from him, and figure out who exactly he would be, and how he'd interact with Buffy.
Honestly, I do hope that you stay with this fic. Given what you've said in your comment, I think there's gonna be some stuff that you aren't thrilled about, but I can tell you that- having already written up to halfway through School Hard -there are going to be some plot changes, and the interpersonal interactions are going to be different in the long-run. Stuff has just (in my opinion) had to remain relatively similar to what happened in the show for the first couple of 'episodes' because they are just getting to know each other and whatnot.
Again, I do sincerely appreciate and thank you for your comments. It's good to have a wake-up call as far as this is concerned, and it'll open my eyes to more critically evaluate the direction I'm taking each specific chapter/'episode'. Either way, I think if you do stick with it, this fic will
be worth your time... it just might take a little while to get there.
Thanks again :)
-CF
Thank you for everything that you've said. I really appreciate your review, and hearing from someone who's not in love with the direction I've been taking it so far.
As far as the interpersonal stuff goes, I've tried to stay true to who I imagine this version of Spike to be. Although we have yet to learn this as fact in this universe, this isn't a Spike who spent over 100 years as a gleefully soulless demon, having lots of adventures and rowdy fun... so I'm imagining him to be a slightly different incarnation than what we saw on BtVS. As such, I've tried to reconcile the Spike that we all know with a Spike who had a completely different history from him, and figure out who exactly he would be, and how he'd interact with Buffy.
Honestly, I do hope that you stay with this fic. Given what you've said in your comment, I think there's gonna be some stuff that you aren't thrilled about, but I can tell you that- having already written up to halfway through School Hard -there are going to be some plot changes, and the interpersonal interactions are going to be different in the long-run. Stuff has just (in my opinion) had to remain relatively similar to what happened in the show for the first couple of 'episodes' because they are just getting to know each other and whatnot.
Again, I do sincerely appreciate and thank you for your comments. It's good to have a wake-up call as far as this is concerned, and it'll open my eyes to more critically evaluate the direction I'm taking each specific chapter/'episode'. Either way, I think if you do stick with it, this fic will
be worth your time... it just might take a little while to get there.
Thanks again :)
-CF
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