Imposing meta upon a narrative...

[elisi]

Had a thought the other day, re. the current story lines in s8 and AtF. Spoilers for everything under the cut.

So, in s8 Angel has basically been turned into destiny's bitch. 'The prophecy says so, ergo I must do it!' Now from what I've been told, Spike's current storyline over in the Angel comic!verse is exactly the opposite: 'I'm gonna make the prophecies work for me!' - and is making destiny *his* bitch.

Now their actions don't make much any sense when compared to their deeply layered and complex canon counterparts, but it struck me as a rather nifty contrast.

Is it deliberate? Well, that's another question. I highly doubt it, although it would please me no end if Spike had got his prophecy-makers to un-write the whole Twilight nonsense. But I'm not holding my breath. Still... I'd like to think that the Spike story-line is a commentary on the nonsense of the latest s8 arc.

And here endeth the day's [not quite] meta.

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[elisi]

Not to mention that if he did author the prophecy, Spike would be responsible for all those watchers that killed themselves in the 17th century, when they thought Twilight was imminent.
Ah, but I doubt he could have sent it back in time so that nicely puts paid to that possibility! :)

I do wish someone would do right by Spike (and Buffy...and God help me, Angel).
Clearly fic is the way to go! (I have a fic - points to icon - which I never finished but which is about 3 million times better than s8 and uses Spike, Buffy & Angel very well indeed. I hope I some day will the time to work on it again - it's LONG...)