#jane espenson

[lucks-eterna]

Fallout 2x04 writer Jane Espenson, known for writing enemies to lovers ships such as Spuffy, Rumbelle, and Captain Swan confirms that she will return to write for Fallout Season 3!!!

[abadbadbrujah]

Jane Espenson writing the majority of Spike episodes where he shows positive character growth, the fact that Spike is the antithsis of Angel and that Joss Wheadon hated his popularity can not be by coincidence.

I know I'm connecting a lot of dots with this one (that have probably been connected before), but she quiet literally wrote the episode where he is reintroduced in season 4 with "Harsh Light of Day", where he becomes part of the Scoobies with "Pangs", "Doomed" and "A New Man".

Then later on in Season 5 saved his character with the masterful "Intervention" where in the same episode she writes Spike creating the sexbot he also shows his worth by being tortured (where we see him being penetrated) and not breaking.

In the season 6 episode she wrote "After Life" where we see Spike's trauma of Buffy dying and how he is literally the only Scoobie to be able to look after her after being resurrected, as he himself has gone through the trauma of dying then digging out of his own grave. Also in this episode we see that he has now taken the mantel of Dawn's supernatural protector, out of surviors guilt from the events of the season 5 finale, and then later on how those events have haunted him every night. Jane then wrote Spike to be the only person in Doublemeat Palace to offer Buffy a way out of working there.

Season 7 Jane co-wrote the highly acclaimed "Conversations with Dead People" then "Sleeper" and "First Date" where we see Spike's fall to The First and where he killed people, but also where we see how he has risen in Buffy's eye's to being trustworthy in "First Date".

With all this being said you can probably understand now why I'd say a lot of Spike nuance is credited to Jane Espenson. To quote James in the SDCC 2012 Buffy panel "Joss would come up to me about 3 episodes in to every season and say he has no idea what to do with me", so this meant the other writers (mostly Jane) to take over with writing Spike. So you can see why it's not too far fethced to say she is the reason behind his popularity as she set a lot of the ground work after s2, outside of James's himself giving a masterful preformance. Later on in the SDCC 2012 Buffy Panel she says "we knew we had this amazingly verstial character largely because we had this amazingly verstial actor, we knew whatever we put infront of James he could do..." this shows that she felt comfortable making Spike into whatever she wanted.

For my last point, there's a lot of examples here that the fandom loves to highlight Spike's being Angel's opposite, like how Spike's treament of a Minor having a crush on him compared to the soul having Angel's. Spike's complete polar opposite on how he see's love as something postive to protect, where as Angelus's use of love as a tool to torture someone with. William loved and respected women where as Liam only used the ones around him.

This all leads me to the conclusion that Spike was more popular than Angel mostly because of Jane's input and groundwork on the character after season 2, and we all know how Joss felt about Spike's popularity and there's no way Jane didn't make all his postive traits the opposite of Angel by coincidence.

Thank you Jane for creating what I believe to be one of the best characters in media history and for being the original Spike girlie.

[zara2148]

The way I was pointing at the screen when I saw Jane Espenson credited as the writer for Fallout S2 Ep4... the same person who launched the Rumbelle ship with OUAT episode Skin Deep. I see she hasn't lost her skill with writing the captivating dynamic between an energetic and morally righteous young woman with a morally questionable man who, due to reasons of plot, has several decades on the woman without being utterly decrepit about it.

[auguryintheether]

This goes out to the enemies-to-lovers ghoulcy gang 🖤💀☢️

I'm rejoicing in our lord and savior Jane Espenson returning for Fallout s3. She delivered us spuffy and she will deliver ghoulcy [she says full of matcha and optimism]. But it's all about that long game...

Remember, it took from s2 to s5 for Spike to go from:

[Kill the Slayer & would die to protect Drusilla]

To:

"I am going to kill Drusilla for you"

We're just getting started babes 🖤

[lesbianmarrow]

What Prose Writers Can Learn from Script Writers (and What Not to Learn) - Uncanny Magazine

I occasionally write short stories, but mostly I write scripts for TV shows. Many of these shows fit neatly under the Science Fiction and Fa

new craft essay by jane espenson about writing good dialogue!! she really knows her stuff

[sleepy-bebby]

[cartoonjessie]

Yo Rumbellers and Spuffy fans, did you hear they got Jane Espenson writing on Fallout season 2? The Ghoulcy angst is now our favourite flavour! (It's good, go watch!)

[aphony-cree]

Jane Espenson is a producer on Fallout season 2, let's goooooooooo!!!