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The news features an interview with Drew Goddard talking about Buffy&Spike, their key benchmark moment and what he thinks of Spike carrying his own show. |
An excerpt from an interview with Drew Goddard in Buffy Magazine #19 transcribed by Clairel:
 Q: "Never Leave Me" dealt with the trust issues between Buffy and Spike. What was the core issue in that episode?
A: It's this weird Spike and Buffy relationship. I don't even know if he has to earn her love, but where we left off at the end of Season Six, it wasn't the most flowery of relationship moments. We just wanted to make sure that that still lived in the universe, and that their horrible history wasn't hidden. But then we worked every episode towards Spike's quest to earn that trust back. In "Never Leave Me," there is a key benchmark moment where he is saying, "I don't deserve to live after what I did to you," and Buffy is
saying, "Yes, you do. You can redeem yourself." We knew where we were going to end with him in that season, and the episode is structured like the end of the first third of the season for them. It was the end of his wallowing and time to get himself up and start working on that and from then on, he does.
Q: What were the highlights of that episode for you?
A: Andrew chasing a pig. I don't know if I will ever top that in my career. [laughs] Tom Lenk running after a pig is about as high art as I can aspire to, ever. The first scene between him and Jonathan, as The First, was quite nice, too. The Spike and Buffy scene was also key. I watch that scene and I think Sarah Michelle Gellar and James Marsters have never been better than in that scene.
Q: You collaborated with David Fury on "Lies My Parents Told Me." What did you learn from him?
A: I learned a lot of craft from Fury. He was great about teaching me how to do things. He has a well-structured and practiced style and getting to write with him, you get into his head about how he approaches a scene. The scene that was so hard in that episode was the scene when Giles and Wood talk and Wood basically talks Giles into killing Spike. It was like, "How do we get there/" We each wrote three drafts of that scene, trying to figure that out. You learn that sometimes the hardest things to write are the most effective, and you have to be willing to try a few different things -- and you can't be afraid to fail, in terms of figuring scenes out. We rewrote that scene over and over again until we got it right. I
really love that episode and it ages well. James Marsters is just incredible. The single biggest disappointment in the Buffy and Angel universe going down, other than not working for Joss, is not
getting to write for Spike. He is so great. As a person, James is so great and as an actor, there is no one I've ever met that is better. He can just do anything. It depresses me still to know that Spike isn't around right now.
Q: Do you think Spike could carry his own spin-off someday?
A: The tricky thing we were finding is how do you make that spin-off different from Angel? They are very different characters, but in terms of making a show -- Bufy and Angel_are very different shows. You wouldn't want Angel and Spike to be the same show. I always like Spike better when he isn't the star. I like it when he is the guy making fun of the star. That being said, if they said, "Drew, we are doing a Spike show," they would have to kill me not to be involved. I would be camping on Whedon's doorstep.[laughs]
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