Spike offers hope, realism on spinoff

Jason
Thursday
11:08 pm

SciFi Wire cornered James Marsters on Monday at a press event promoting Dragonball: Evolution. Marsters was around to talk up his new project, but of course SciFi Wire totally forgot about that and started drilling him about the always rumored Spike spinoff from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

Now Marsters has always contended that he would only put a five to seven year window of reprising the role of the ever loving vampire we all grew to love. With that window closing, Marsters offered up some hope that it could still get done, but was very realistic that the chances of a studio backing the spin-off would be slim.

I think that Buffy has always been swimming upstream. It’s always been fighting uphill. It’s no different now. You would have to really get behind it and sell it, even if Sarah [Michelle Gellar] were the lead. But asking the powers that be to put their money behind a secondary character of that show, there’s just resistance. I think if Sarah wants to come back, I’ll jump on behind her again, but I think that’s the way there would probably be something else.

If there is one thing that rabid Buffy fans can latch on to, to find a glimmer of maybe, that will and can sustain them for a couple of months. As it stands a rumored Giles spinoff in the UK is pretty much dead. At least we can watch him play a medieval king on Merlin. But sadly the Buffyverse may be taking a much longer dirtnap than most fans want. One day it may return, but at this point, it is looking like a long shot. But every just remember. For every Angel there is to Buffy, the is a Battlestar Galactica 1980 to Battlestar Galactica.

And personally, I have always held out hope that if there was a spinoff, that it would be based on Faith and how she got along after Sunnydale turned into a giant nothing. Hey who knows? With Dollhouse on a very big bubble, both Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku may be available very soon. Any takers?

Wait…this isn't Sunnydale. I command you to return me at once!