Re: OT: Joss on Season 7 <Spoilers>

[danspector@xxxxxxxxx]

Kirayoshi,

Actually, I always thought that venting relieved stress (my blood
pressure is only slightly higher than Spike's, in point o'fact), but
anyway, that's over now.

Oh

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Haven't seen this reported here yet, but on Tuesday, when interviewed
leaving the N. Hollywood panel, James Marsters said definitively that
Spike was now a vampire-with-a-soul, not human or anything.

Nice quote about "Clockwork Orange"; I don't know about James's
speculations about William, though. That seems to be pure spec, and
anyway, James is known to say he likes to play against the text, putting
the lover in EvilSpike and the bastard in NobleSpike. Not entirely true
in some of the "Brad" eps, but his intent. So his thinking that William
might have been a rotter may just be his way of finding depth in Weenie
Willie the Bloody Awful Poet after having played him.

Oh, and actually, isn't a bastardly SouledSpike the Spuffys' dream?
He's got a soul, so he won't do anything ultimately evil and Buffy can
work past the bumps knowing he has a chance to truly return her love,
but he'll still have an "edge" and be "their Spike", which should please
the legions who bewailed the "death of Spike" in "Grave".

And OT, re "Clockwork Orange", did anyone notice during the World Cup
that the South Korean fans apparently sing the Choral Symphony (#9) in
Korean to cheer their heroes on? Apparently Wung Jae Lee and the rest
of the gang like a little bit of the old Ludwig Van as much as the next
fellow. Scoring above "Ole, Brasil!" in my mind.

Dan

"Praise to thee, the joy-descended Daughter of Elysium..."