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Spike/Doyle/Wesley

Plans for Spike
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel writer, Joan Espenson, is dropping big hints about what lies ahead for everyone's favorite bad boy vampire, Spike, on Buffy. What she has to say could be potential spoilers for those of you who would rather not know. If so, move to another story by using a handy link to the right. Still there? You have been warned!
While talking to The 11th Hour, Espenson revealed that during this season, Buffy viewers will see Spike becoming one of the regular members of the Scooby Gang. She explains how this was all part of the plan as season four began, saying, "We knew, and at the point where people watched that episode ['The Harsh Light of Day'], they didn't know that we were going to be emasculating Spike, that we were going to give him his current disability, that he can't bite people. So they may have felt like he was a little brutal for no reason, and in fact we did it very specifically to make him scary so that when he had this done to him, when he had the conditioning happen to him, so that we'd see the contrast. So that he wouldn't seem to have been powerless throughout the whole season, it would be a very nice distinct break between powerful bad-ass Spike and Spike that can't chase the other puppies anymore."
Espenson continues, "He is going to continue to integrate himself into the group, over subsequent episodes… Which is going to be very interesting, because his attitude remains Spike. He's still Spike, and he's still evil. You'll see how we're going to pull him more and more gradually into the group. The episode I just wrote is going to be episode 12, so it appears well into the new year, and Spike is still kind of at the edges; we're still very slowly bringing him in." As it stands, James Marsters, the man who plays Spike, currently has a two-year contract with the series.

Doyle out...and ? In...
With the recent departure of Glenn Quinn (and death of his character Doyle) from Angel, there is a void on the series that would seem to need to be filled soon. Of course, the powers that be have something in the works. What is in the works may be a spoiler to those of you who would rather be surprised. If so, then move along to the next story by using a handy link at the right.
Still there? You have been warned!
While talking to The 11th Hour, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel writer Joan Espenson revealed that plans are afoot to bring in a third character for the series. Hard core fans of both series may have heard rumblings of Alexis Denisof's Buffy Watcher character Wesley Wyndham-Price coming back which Espenson confirms saying, "I was just rewriting something on an Angel, and I got to write a scene with Wesley in it, and we've got a bunch of them now with him in [them]. And it is very fun to write. I think he is just a hoot and a half. He's just so funny. As you write the lines, you picture the actor reading them, and you just crack yourself up because he's just so funny." Espenson also drops hints that Wesley has been through a few changes since we last saw him, saying, "I think a lot of people didn't like Wesley because they didn't like Wesley, [b]ecause he was a sniveling agent of the Watcher's Council, and that's exactly how one should feel about him, but it should be with that kind of delicious guy you love to hate kind of way. And now he's just gonna be a little different. He's gonna have had some stuff happen to him since the last time we saw him." More than that, Espenson would not reveal.