Oh I do understand what you mean (and sorry if I seemed a bit harsh, just used to it that a lot of people who insist on Spike going to get the chip out, try and bring up her friends as the reason when you point out that the chip didn't work on Buffy*g* It's become like an instinctive part of the response*eg*)
I could see your point, the problem of it for me is that, one, I like Spike's story better with him choosing for the soul, and two, I don't believe that Spike was ever really the big bad that he tried to be.
Spike has a tendency to try and become what he thinks the person he loves wants him to be. Poetic, sophisticated and a good man for Cecily (that one didn't exactly work), a good student and a monster for Angelus, a dark vicious knight for Drusilla, ... he was still trying to find what Buffy wanted. He knew she wanted someone who helped people, even if he didn't get why he was supposed to do so, someone who didn't feed on bleeding disastervictims, someone who's good and can fight and...
The big problem is though, that none of those are really him. S2 Spike is just as much a pretense as the Spike in the beginning of s5 trying to tell Buffy that he didn't feed on the disaster victims. By S5 of Angel Spike was still trying to find the real him.
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Date: 2006-06-11 09:12 pm (UTC)(and sorry if I seemed a bit harsh, just used to it that a lot of people who insist on Spike going to get the chip out, try and bring up her friends as the reason when you point out that the chip didn't work on Buffy*g*
It's become like an instinctive part of the response*eg*)
I could see your point, the problem of it for me is that, one, I like Spike's story better with him choosing for the soul, and two, I don't believe that Spike was ever really the big bad that he tried to be.
Spike has a tendency to try and become what he thinks the person he loves wants him to be. Poetic, sophisticated and a good man for Cecily (that one didn't exactly work), a good student and a monster for Angelus, a dark vicious knight for Drusilla, ... he was still trying to find what Buffy wanted. He knew she wanted someone who helped people, even if he didn't get why he was supposed to do so, someone who didn't feed on bleeding disastervictims, someone who's good and can fight and...
The big problem is though, that none of those are really him. S2 Spike is just as much a pretense as the Spike in the beginning of s5 trying to tell Buffy that he didn't feed on the disaster victims. By S5 of Angel Spike was still trying to find the real him.