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askye at 12:13pm on 26/03/2003
askye at 12:13pm on 26/03/2003Everyone's weighing in about Spike and Buffy and Wood and The Lies my Mother Told me and here's my take
First, I think the whole "My Mom loved me and yours didn't" speech Spike gave Wood was to demoralize Wood. Spike has in the past played off the Scoobies insecurities, there was a whole episode based around that. Spike may suck at long range plans but he is good a figuring out what a person's weaknesses are and working off of them.
Now, Spike may have just now realized that his Mum loved him and it was just the demon talking but I'm surprised it took him this long. What I'm thinking is he's still guilty about killing his mother.
About Wood and Nikki---Spike doesn't feel guilty about that and there's no reason he should, that's what vampires and Slayers do, they fight to the death. At least that's what they should do---Buffy are you paying attention? Fight to the DEATH!---
Spike knows jack about Nikki, he knows nothing about Wood except he killed Nikki and Wood has issues about his mother and Spike.
As for Buffy, Spike maybe her strongest warrior but she's got a huge blindspot. HUGE, she keeps saying "He has a soul." but the truth is a soul means jack when it comes to right and wrong. Warren had a soul and look where that got him. Andrew has a soul and he stil murdered his best friend.
Either Buffy is afraid that if she kills Spike then it's some how going to reflect badly on her relationship with Angel or that she's playing favorites. Frankly Buffy said she's not ready to let Spike go.
I was hoping Spike would kill Wood. I was hoping because I've wanted to see a souled, de chipped Spike who would make the choice to do something like that. Spike doesn't seem to be continually wracked with guilt like Angel, but then Angel's soul is a punishment and not freely chosen, Spike's soul is freely chosen.
As for the vampire is a demon that inhabits the body of the person and isn't the person. Well, I don't know. At this point we're very far away from that but I think you can fanwank it to say, and not be too far off that it's something the Watchers thought and believed becuase they didn't understand or really know vampires.
Except now we are seeing how vampires really are. There is demon in them but they are still the person they were before they were vamped, just the more darker meaner side of them is amplified. The Watchers have been known to be wrong before and how often have they been able to actually get to know vampires on a friendly basis?
It's fanwank.
As for Spike, what I really really want is to see him DEAD. Dust. Maybe Faith will do that. Please god let someone dust him.
Edited to add that I WANTED Spike to kill Wood. I wanted Buffy to go in and see Wood Dead. Dead, dead, dead. For her to have to see that even though Spike has a soul he still has a choice. And then she'd have to stake him. Because he does have a choice. He can chose not to kill, just like he chose not to kill Wood and he can continue to chose not to kill, but he still has that choice.
First, I think the whole "My Mom loved me and yours didn't" speech Spike gave Wood was to demoralize Wood. Spike has in the past played off the Scoobies insecurities, there was a whole episode based around that. Spike may suck at long range plans but he is good a figuring out what a person's weaknesses are and working off of them.
Now, Spike may have just now realized that his Mum loved him and it was just the demon talking but I'm surprised it took him this long. What I'm thinking is he's still guilty about killing his mother.
About Wood and Nikki---Spike doesn't feel guilty about that and there's no reason he should, that's what vampires and Slayers do, they fight to the death. At least that's what they should do---Buffy are you paying attention? Fight to the DEATH!---
Spike knows jack about Nikki, he knows nothing about Wood except he killed Nikki and Wood has issues about his mother and Spike.
As for Buffy, Spike maybe her strongest warrior but she's got a huge blindspot. HUGE, she keeps saying "He has a soul." but the truth is a soul means jack when it comes to right and wrong. Warren had a soul and look where that got him. Andrew has a soul and he stil murdered his best friend.
Either Buffy is afraid that if she kills Spike then it's some how going to reflect badly on her relationship with Angel or that she's playing favorites. Frankly Buffy said she's not ready to let Spike go.
I was hoping Spike would kill Wood. I was hoping because I've wanted to see a souled, de chipped Spike who would make the choice to do something like that. Spike doesn't seem to be continually wracked with guilt like Angel, but then Angel's soul is a punishment and not freely chosen, Spike's soul is freely chosen.
As for the vampire is a demon that inhabits the body of the person and isn't the person. Well, I don't know. At this point we're very far away from that but I think you can fanwank it to say, and not be too far off that it's something the Watchers thought and believed becuase they didn't understand or really know vampires.
Except now we are seeing how vampires really are. There is demon in them but they are still the person they were before they were vamped, just the more darker meaner side of them is amplified. The Watchers have been known to be wrong before and how often have they been able to actually get to know vampires on a friendly basis?
It's fanwank.
As for Spike, what I really really want is to see him DEAD. Dust. Maybe Faith will do that. Please god let someone dust him.
Edited to add that I WANTED Spike to kill Wood. I wanted Buffy to go in and see Wood Dead. Dead, dead, dead. For her to have to see that even though Spike has a soul he still has a choice. And then she'd have to stake him. Because he does have a choice. He can chose not to kill, just like he chose not to kill Wood and he can continue to chose not to kill, but he still has that choice.
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