By Chris Snellgrove
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer was more than a popular urban fantasy show. It was a television series that transformed the television landscape with its crackling writing even when it made us fall in love with her eclectic characters. Perhaps none of these characters were more captivating only Spike de James Marsters, who enters the show as a soulless and selfish vampire and puts an end to the series heroically sacrificing to save the world. A lot Buffy The fans wanted Spike to be real, and maybe it was … at least, that’s what some fans say after a Redditor has discovered a perfect spirit in a documentary in the Joy division.
The real peak
This story begins on R / Buffy (the chef Buffy The Vampire Slayer Subdreddit), where U / Poteliengage685 published images of a Spirik which was too real. The user had watched the 2007 documentary Division of joy which focused on the band of the same name and strongly presents clips from the late 1970s. And the user usefully took photos of this Spike Doppelganger who appeared on the screen during a montage highlighting the Punk scene British of the era.
At this point, it should be noted that this anonymous man does not just look like James MarstersThe actor who gave life to our favorite vampire bad boy. Instead, this Buffy Fan noted how much man looked like Spike himself, giving the impression that this vampire may have existed in the real world. And after having published the photos, the fans rushed to underline the irony that this man did not necessarily look like Spike … Instead, Spike was deliberately designed to resemble this type of figure archetypal.
On the one hand, Buffy The showrunner Joss Whedon wanted Spike to be based on the real punk scene that the last one Division of joy Documentary if in love. In a previous interview, Whedon said he wanted his vampiric creation to be “an English punk vampire”. This required a makeover and vocal training of English Anthony Stewart Head, and everything that works on a British accent was doubly ironic because Marsters would have auditioned with a thick accent of Louisiana which would have been more comfortable in Real blood.
On Buffy Subredit, many fans have discussed the quantity of the anonymous man looked like both fictitious spike and the real musical legend Billy Idol. As many of these fans already knew it, Spike’s look in the series was deliberately shaped after Idol, so much so that we later obtained a funny disposable line on the way Idol stole his look to Spike rather than The reverse. But in the real world, Idol’s look was more inspired by groups like sex pistols, which makes things close: Joss Whedon wanted Spike to be more like Sid Vicieux and Marsters insisted on the fact that he should look more like Johnny Rotten.
Unfortunately for Buffy Fans around the world, Spike is not really real. If it were, half of them would constantly covet him and the other half would cry about season 6. But this stranger in a documentary in the Joy Division too real. In this sense, well … You could say that the real William Le Bloody has been inside us from the start.
