What point is there in it lying to Spike at that juncture? If it wanted to taunt him, why not "Ha ha, you got stuck with a soul! Suffer, sucker!"
The thing is, while the whole soul story was absolutely, positively bungled by the writers, at some point, they decided that's what he wanted. Maybe it really was back in S6. Maybe it was over the summer. We'll never know for sure. But whenever, for whatever reason, they decided it, and it's canon now. Just like Dru being Spike's sire instead of Angelus. If you want to, you can come up with a scenario where Spike is lying or deluded, Lurky (who is probably on the evil side, judging by his contempt for Spike's having fallen from the path) is stupid enough to give a legendary dark warrior a prize that will turn him into a warrior for good when said dark warrior didn't want it in the first place, the First Evil is lying to Spike about his own motives for no reason, and Buffy, Giles, et al. are all so credulous and stupid that they fall for the whole thing.
I can also construct a scenario where Giles is really an alien robot. But there just doesn't seem much point in it. *g*
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Date: 2006-06-11 12:14 am (UTC)The thing is, while the whole soul story was absolutely, positively bungled by the writers, at some point, they decided that's what he wanted. Maybe it really was back in S6. Maybe it was over the summer. We'll never know for sure. But whenever, for whatever reason, they decided it, and it's canon now. Just like Dru being Spike's sire instead of Angelus. If you want to, you can come up with a scenario where Spike is lying or deluded, Lurky (who is probably on the evil side, judging by his contempt for Spike's having fallen from the path) is stupid enough to give a legendary dark warrior a prize that will turn him into a warrior for good when said dark warrior didn't want it in the first place, the First Evil is lying to Spike about his own motives for no reason, and Buffy, Giles, et al. are all so credulous and stupid that they fall for the whole thing.
I can also construct a scenario where Giles is really an alien robot. But there just doesn't seem much point in it. *g*