Murray Head (muzza@omen.net.au)
Mon, 05 Jan 1998 16:09:34 +0800
Hi all,
Just a few comments on things said about Spike's father:
>From Kevin-
>If you remember "A Night In", Spike throws either a pile of
>papers or a tray containing papers (I forget which) at Lynda.
I just watched htat ep yesterday, and I'm sure he's really throwing them in
the air - making a mess, being a pain, generally letting Lynda know he's not
happy. He's basically just having a little tantrum, and I think it's a bit
of a stretch to link it to violence towards Lynda - in my view, the papers
were thrown above her head so that she'd be showered in them and a mess
would be made; not a pacifist's approach to resolving a dispute, certainly,
but not really violent.
> "Love and
>War" has him destroying a typewriter in a fit of rage.
This is true, but there are some extenuating circumstances - and having to
put up with Colin's games at the same time is enough to send anyone over the
edge!
> He beats up Barry Crowther in "Picking Up the Pieces".
True, he did have a bit of a hard man's reputation he was trying to keep up
in the early years.
Matt offered
> It does make you wonder why he would make those
>kind or remarks when they are so seemingly undeserved.
I can't quite see Spike doing that - he's actually pretty mature when he
thinks no-ones looking :), and I don't think, especially in the
introspective moment it is said in, it is something he would be likely to
make up. That's more Lynda's forte (see Friends Like These")
Natacha (welcome back!!) said:
> I remembered what he said to Donald
>Cooper in the Last Word part 1 -
" next time just be mean to someone you love... Throw dishes at them like a
civilised person"
I think that was a bit of a loke, and bit of a reference to the love/hate
relationship with Lynda.
>
> However through out the telephone conversations with his father's
>aswering magaine he never mentioned violence and his was trying to
> think of every lousy thing to say about there relationship. The
>problem seemed to be more verbal.
Yes, the problem seemed to me to be one of communication.
I'm still a little unconvinced of whether this is something Steven Moffat
put in in "A night In" as an idea to explain Spike's background a bit (there
is quite a bit of revelation about Spike's family life in that episode), and
then decided to change things a little later (although PG's continuity is
usually pretty good).
Just some idle musings,
Murray
Murray
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