More Spike/Wesley?

To follow up from my post yesterday about hotspur18 and quoshara "Dragonslayer Inc", if you have read the links from yesterday, and want to read more (why wouldn't you), then join ds_investigate.

It is a tag community, which means no responding in comments. It is only the players who comment. At the end of each complete section is an e-mail address where you can respond. If you have read the first three arcs then you can continue from "As Flies to Wanton Boys" thread.

You know you will love it, as I do! Such a great story.

New about me....well I am feeling really tired today. I did get 8hours sleep, so that is not the reason. Just cannot seem to wake up enough to really get it together. Don't know what is up with me at all, totally disoriented as well. Keep thinking today is Tuesday. Ok need to order a new brain soon!

How important is the Actor?

sueworld2003 has a poll at her site in response to "Over on Whedonesque at the moment they are discussing the season 8 comic's and one poster on there has said that to her actors are 'invisible' and that any actor playing a character could be replaced with an actor of equal ability and they wouldn't notice it.

To them the text is everything and that's why in part they accept the new season 8 comics so readily. The link to the original discussion is here in case anyones interested to see 'the source' so to speak."

http://whedonesque.com/comments/12772

The poll is here, I had to hit the reply button to get the link!

So how important is the actor, and what the actor brings to the table? I have the Seasons one and two scriptbooks. There is no direction of how to express the script in them, no directions of how to walk, talk or anything. Yes the director would have some input here, but so must the actor. It is not all the fantastic writing. Actors are not invisible, they bring talent and ability to the table as well.

Humans are visual creatures. Even when we read a novel, we visualise it. Which for me is one reason if I have read a book, I am usually disappointed in any film, TV series based on it.

It could also be a drawback with the comic. Not the writing, but the artwork, especially Buffy. SMG is very difficult to capture in such a media, so expecting to "see" Buffy might need a bit of a twist.

So could any actor play the charaters in the Buffyverse? I think not, it never seems to work. "Alias Smith and Jones" for one example.

OK so Dr Who has been played by many different actors over the years, but in each regeneration, the character changes. So it is acceptable.

I would say, for myself, that if they wanted to use new actors in the verse, then they would have to have new characters as well. Which they could with all the slayers activated. It wouldn't be "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", but would allow the series to continue. Much like "Star Trek: The Next Generation". The francise could continue, with new actors, but different characters.

This may explain why the comics "Tales of the Slayers" and "Fray" did work for me. The artists didn't need to try an protray a real live human. They had free rein in the deplictions of the characters.

Shutting up now! Go have a vote at Sue's poll!

Summer Knights: Behind the Scenes!

An interview, centered round James with June Williams, and four bloopers during the making of "Summer Knights" to be found at James Offical Site here!

Fun!