No I meant make him more of a physical threat to Spike. His appeal was that he was one of the few characters who could beat Spike in a fight. That's why the anime finale worked and this one didn't.
Netflix Vicious was never a convincing threat to Netflix Spike to me.
I don't mind that take either. Vicious isn't that interesting outside of a fight so either flesh him out or keep him in the back pocket. Netflix probably wants this show to go on for a few years. So just create other threats for Spike and the others and save Vicious and Julia till the final season.
In hindsight, they could've followed in footsteps of the 1990's manga. That was a vaguely canonical spinoff to the anime. It didn't last that long but mostly focused on the crew in new adventures. It even had a brand new main villian called "the scorpion".
The Scorpion isn't that interesting but he is a blank slate they could do whatever they want with.
We might get that just in the reverse. Here's hoping Vincent Volaju pick ups the slack. .