The only other disagreement regarding Oscar had to do with the character’s personality. Spinney was convinced Stone and the other writers had Oscar all wrong. “He’s not a villain, not horrible,” Spinney insisted. “He fundamentally has got a heart of gold.” It was a thesis with which Jon Stone strongly disagreed. “There’s no heart of gold,” Stone said. “The guy is a shit, right to the core.” It would remain a point of contention between Spinney and the writers for years, even as Oscar became more and more popular.
