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Статья в Houston Chronicle

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"Angel flies to TNT in reruns"

By Kare O'Hare
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Although he felt that Angel could go on "to season 6 and beyond", JM will likely depart the show at the end of this season as one happy actor. In mid-Feb, execs at The WB chose not to renew AtS for another year, so the Buffy spinoff comes to a close in May after 5 season and a little over 100 episodes.
After Buffy ended last year, Marsters brought himself and his character, the Britpunk vampire Spike, over to AtS, which also airs weekdays in reruns on TNT.
"I felt like, over on Buffy, I was at a feast where my plate was smaller than everyone else's," Marsters says, in an interview conducted before the cancellatioan announcement. "If you counted the pages, Spike averaged about 3 pages an episode, and that had to do with just getting him in the room more than anyghing else. I'm not complaining. I'm surprised they were able to fit that character in at all."
"But, I also felt like, 'Everyone else has got all these beautiful, wonderful jokes and great plays on words' What I got was fabulous----I just wanted to act more, I wanted to be here more.
"Now they've heaped my plate so full that I'm stretched to the breaking point. It's everything that I dreamed of. Now, the other side's starting to look sweet. Boy, I was well rested back then."
After slowly changing from Buffy's (SMG) foe to her reluctant ally to her eventual love interest, Spike sacrificed himself to save the world in the series finale. But Angel wanted him too, so Spike's sojourn into the Great Beyond was cut short.
He soon appeared---1st in ghostly form, then later corporeal---in the LA office of the evil law firm Wolfram & Hart, now being run by Spike's mentor, nemesis and cheif rival for Buffy's affections, the do-gooder vampire Angel (DB).
So the only 2 vamps w/ souls (and therefore consciences and moral compasses) became very reluctant allies in the fight against evil---that is, when they weren't fighting w/each other.
Marsters wasn't all that nuts about being a ghost for several episodes at the beginning of the season.
"Techinically, it was really a pain, frankly, setting up those shots where you go through a wall. It burns a lot of the day, and it takes away from acting, which is what I'm here for."
"Angel, in his evil, pre-soul days, taught young vampire Spike how to live the bloodsucker's life, which was a far cry from his mortal existence as William, a tortured Victorian poet.
"Spike is a bit of a doppelganger for Angel," Marsters says, "and so, functionally, it was good to start on the thematic level, an almost human level, as opposed to just rocking it out w/ a huge fight right off the bat."
Forced to talk instead of fighting, the 2 characters got a chance to work out their differences.
"It's an older bro/younger bro thing," Marsters says. "That's how it feels. At the point when William met Angel, he was everything you'd want to be. He was cool; he was dark; he was mysterious."
"You get the sense with William that he didn't really have a strong father figure in his life, so he looked up to Angel pretty quickly."
Although no one but the writers know how the show will ultimately end (and The WB is talking about doing TV movies), Marsters has a specific goal for his character.
"What I hope can happen for Spike is that he will impact Angel & send him on a forver more interesting arc towrds redemption. It's Angel's show. It will not work any other way."

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