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noel_of_spike posting day tomorrow. :sigh: Still not happy with the damn story, but I suppose I shall just have to post it.
Anyway, in a rather more positive vein where fic writing's concerned, doing the Darla ficathon made me want to write more historical fics, which made me remember two things:
The first of these is that, any historical fics involving Spike would have to involve Dru in some way. She doesn't have to be in the story in person, of course, but if she's not, there has to be a good reason for it. It's canon (that bloody word again) that for 100 years plus she was the centre of Spike's world and if he wasn't with her, he was probably thinking about her.
I suppose this makes me sound like I don't like Dru or Spike/Dru, which really isn't the case. It's just that I find their relationship so nebulous, given that we saw so little of it in the show except how it ended, that it's hard for me to get a grip on it or to believe that Dru was as important to Spike as we know she was.
Still, ways around it, I suppose, and the best way to get over dislike/disinterest in a character or relationship is to write it.
The second thing I remembered was my occasional frustration with the glaring historical errors scattered throughout the two shows. Sometimes it's factual errors, such as the presence of a woman like Darla (not to mention her beautiful house with the fluttering curtains) in Virginia in 1609, or the costumes at Cecily's party in FFL, which are all wrong, except for Cecily's own. Sometimes it's errors of sensibility, like the whole set up of William's home life with his mother in LMPTM. I'm pretty sure Fury/Goddard (I think it was them that wrote the episode) are trying to show us that William is a soppy little mummy's boy. In fact, they do show us that, but of course a grown man living with his mother in 1880 wasn't anything unusual and you can't infer that William would be a mummy's boy simply from his domestic arrangements.
However, just because Joss and co are very much of the now, doesn't mean we can't enjoy ourselves with their version of the then, does it?
:rubs hands: Where to start, where to start?
noel_of_spike posting day tomorrow. :sigh: Still not happy with the damn story, but I suppose I shall just have to post it.Anyway, in a rather more positive vein where fic writing's concerned, doing the Darla ficathon made me want to write more historical fics, which made me remember two things:
The first of these is that, any historical fics involving Spike would have to involve Dru in some way. She doesn't have to be in the story in person, of course, but if she's not, there has to be a good reason for it. It's canon (that bloody word again) that for 100 years plus she was the centre of Spike's world and if he wasn't with her, he was probably thinking about her.
I suppose this makes me sound like I don't like Dru or Spike/Dru, which really isn't the case. It's just that I find their relationship so nebulous, given that we saw so little of it in the show except how it ended, that it's hard for me to get a grip on it or to believe that Dru was as important to Spike as we know she was.
Still, ways around it, I suppose, and the best way to get over dislike/disinterest in a character or relationship is to write it.
The second thing I remembered was my occasional frustration with the glaring historical errors scattered throughout the two shows. Sometimes it's factual errors, such as the presence of a woman like Darla (not to mention her beautiful house with the fluttering curtains) in Virginia in 1609, or the costumes at Cecily's party in FFL, which are all wrong, except for Cecily's own. Sometimes it's errors of sensibility, like the whole set up of William's home life with his mother in LMPTM. I'm pretty sure Fury/Goddard (I think it was them that wrote the episode) are trying to show us that William is a soppy little mummy's boy. In fact, they do show us that, but of course a grown man living with his mother in 1880 wasn't anything unusual and you can't infer that William would be a mummy's boy simply from his domestic arrangements.
However, just because Joss and co are very much of the now, doesn't mean we can't enjoy ourselves with their version of the then, does it?
:rubs hands: Where to start, where to start?
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Date: 2009-12-06 10:47 pm (UTC)There's absolutely no clue. I tend to think they stayed loosely in touch until Darla made the decision to return to the Master. In my head, I've placed this post-the Master getting trapped under Sunnydale but that's only because I've written a Spike/Darla fic (in which Dru was absent rather typically) set in 1947.