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Pike vs Angel

posted 15 years ago by Lisaluv1
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Saw a thread where someone claimed the original character Pike was turned into the character of Spike for the TV version. Sadly I was not big on the TV show and only saw bits n pieces of it but from what I recall Angel was/is a vampire.

So wondering if perhaps the idea came from Luke Perry's character since himself and the actor whom played Angel somewhat resemble one another. But the TV show opted out of a set up w/ Pike but to have Buffy (which was more darker than the version for the movie) to be w/ a new type of love interest in form of Angel.

Also that brings me to another issue ~ when the TV came out was it mentioned to what happened to Pike or did they pick up away from the movie?

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[–] ctizon 14 years ago

I'm not sure about the answer to your first question, but in the TV show Pike isn't mentioned at all.

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[–] mekoppa 14 years ago

The only actual similarity between the movie and the series is that there is a character named Buffy. Josh Whedon hated what the production execs did with the movie so I doubt he kept much from the movie when he did the series.

[–] pioneergrrrl (2412) 6 years ago

I think Pike was split into Oz Angel and Xander for the TV series sell.

Spike came along second season.

[–] pioneergrrrl (2412) 6 years ago

I think Spike is actually the "mirror image" of Giles--who had actually been been 'bad' and rebellious before he accepted what he was supposed to do and become a watcher.

'Ripper' wore leather, drank, cursed and smoked---like Spike

Yes spike smokes even though he is dead and cannot breathe!!

We saw as a human William was well, nerdy and bookish....like guess who when he DID finally accept his destiny as a Watcher.