Spike: Asylum
Jun. 9th, 2007 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxFinally read Spike: Asylum last night
All in all, I liked it. There was some nice humor involved (Particularly liked the Mosaic cover w/ "Turning Mutant Enemies into Mutant Friends"). Spike was very much in Spike voice. The plot was interesting. My only quibble, which really isn't a quibble but more taking note and waiting to see, was Lynch's having Spike saying that Angel would have handled things better. Angel would know what to do. I don't know that Spike would ever voice those things (even if he felt them). And, if not for AtS 6 comics coming up, I probably wouldn't have any problem with them at all because I do think that deep down Spike really doesn't have great confidence in some aspects of himself. I do think he uses bravado to cover these things. But, simply because AtS 6 is in Lynch's hands, I hope that these lines of Spike's were written due to Spike's feelings as opposed to an actual view of Angel. Because, even if Spike thinks Angel knows how to be a hero (which, given early Season 5 AtS, I think Spike has some misgivings about that), looking at Angel on his own, Angel shouldn't think that. (the poor manpire has pretty much managed to doom, destroy, and/or damn everyone he's come in contact with. It's like he's cursed. Oh, wait...) Anyway, while not quibbling (much) about Spike's view of Angel as hero in Asylum, I do hope it's not reflective of Lynch's view of Angel.
Anyway, as to Asylum itself, I liked it. I like Spike as reluctant hero of outcasts, and I liked that Beck gave him a hug at the end. In those respects, I'm an easy sell.
All in all, I liked it. There was some nice humor involved (Particularly liked the Mosaic cover w/ "Turning Mutant Enemies into Mutant Friends"). Spike was very much in Spike voice. The plot was interesting. My only quibble, which really isn't a quibble but more taking note and waiting to see, was Lynch's having Spike saying that Angel would have handled things better. Angel would know what to do. I don't know that Spike would ever voice those things (even if he felt them). And, if not for AtS 6 comics coming up, I probably wouldn't have any problem with them at all because I do think that deep down Spike really doesn't have great confidence in some aspects of himself. I do think he uses bravado to cover these things. But, simply because AtS 6 is in Lynch's hands, I hope that these lines of Spike's were written due to Spike's feelings as opposed to an actual view of Angel. Because, even if Spike thinks Angel knows how to be a hero (which, given early Season 5 AtS, I think Spike has some misgivings about that), looking at Angel on his own, Angel shouldn't think that. (the poor manpire has pretty much managed to doom, destroy, and/or damn everyone he's come in contact with. It's like he's cursed. Oh, wait...) Anyway, while not quibbling (much) about Spike's view of Angel as hero in Asylum, I do hope it's not reflective of Lynch's view of Angel.
Anyway, as to Asylum itself, I liked it. I like Spike as reluctant hero of outcasts, and I liked that Beck gave him a hug at the end. In those respects, I'm an easy sell.
