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Nov. 7th, 2007 04:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI was reading TVtropes
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Spikeification
Spikeification
A truly inexplicable belief persists among television writers that, if the audience takes a liking to a real badass character who fears nothing, has infinite confidence and even carries off defeat with panache, it must mean that what they most want to see is that character reveal a vulnerable side and all manner of inner demons. After all, viewers can't deal with a truly dark character, so we have to water him down.
Note that this isn't the same as Character Development, where extra dimensions are added to an existing character. In this case, the original characterization is stripped away, to be replaced by a thinly-veiled woobie.
And I can see how that applies to Buffy's Spike, but down the end it reckons
Spikeification of Loveable Rogue Captain Jack seems to be the entire premise of the first series of Torchwood, especially "Small Worlds" and "Captain Jack Harkness."
... and I totally don't see it.
I mean yeah there were differences, but... no.
Opinions?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Spikeification
Spikeification
A truly inexplicable belief persists among television writers that, if the audience takes a liking to a real badass character who fears nothing, has infinite confidence and even carries off defeat with panache, it must mean that what they most want to see is that character reveal a vulnerable side and all manner of inner demons. After all, viewers can't deal with a truly dark character, so we have to water him down.
Note that this isn't the same as Character Development, where extra dimensions are added to an existing character. In this case, the original characterization is stripped away, to be replaced by a thinly-veiled woobie.
And I can see how that applies to Buffy's Spike, but down the end it reckons
Spikeification of Loveable Rogue Captain Jack seems to be the entire premise of the first series of Torchwood, especially "Small Worlds" and "Captain Jack Harkness."
... and I totally don't see it.
I mean yeah there were differences, but... no.
Opinions?