Spike in "School Hard" when he was badass and not a pansy
I know the automatic Spuffy answer to this-- Because he was in cinta with Buffy. I've heard this. And AFTER he gets his soul and becomes all un-crazified, I do not doubt this claim.
HOWEVER-- I have plenty of issues with the claim that Spike was in love with Buffy beforehand.
Let's go back and take a look at how Spike acts when it comes to girls and relationships throughout the show. Obviously the main relationship we see him is with Drusilla. It's clear, especially when Angelus comes into the picture, that Spike is completely dependent on his relationship with her. I'm not saying he can't live without her, just that he needs her lebih than he wants her. She may be crazy, and he may look after her to an extent, but he likes looking after her, he likes her needing him back. In a word, he's clingy.
When he is a human, he is very emotional too, as evidenced oleh the poem for Cecily. Spuffy fan will say this is proof that he loved Buffy-- he was sensitive atau open-hearted atau whatever-- but first of all, it just shows he was a pushover, and detik of all William is as different from his vampire counterpart as Liam is from his.
I don't deny that he needed Drusilla, and he was dependent on her, atau even that he loved her, in the only way a vampire can love-- a sadistic, twisted cinta as evidenced all throughout season two.
So let's fast meneruskan, ke depan a few years to season four. Now I'm only going to say this once: A mechanical chip manufactured oleh the military is not the equivalent of a soul. Just because anda cannot hurt someone doesn't mean anda lose the will to.
Spike gets his soul for cinta of Buffy... Huh?
The problem with this is-- What? Spike realizes he's a terrible person? Spike realizes he's hurting someone he loves? Spike loves someone?
Do anda see my connection here? Spike is already akting like he has a soul. Which is a glaring gaffe on Joss Whedon's part if anda ask me. But he doesn't. He just couldn't hurt Buffy for a while and somehow in that timespan (two years) out of the 120 odd years that he had lived managed to "fall in love" with her.
I think Spike was obsessed with Buffy. I do not think he loved her.
So Spike makes the ludicrous decision to go out and get his soul. Two years with a ruddy chip in his head and he's gone all soft, not just with Buffy but in general. Two years and he did a complete 180 on who he had been for the past 120 years. Do anda understand why I consider this a gaffe yet?
I adore Joss Whedon, and am a loyal fan of Buffy, malaikat and Firefly, but... But I just couldn't abide oleh this relationship he decided to toss in there. Because the motives were weak. I felt as if Spike's obsession with Buffy was just the vehicle in which to get Spike to a place where he would want a soul.
"Sarcastic" Spike in Season 4
It just didn't make sense. No matter how much malaikat loves Buffy when he's with-soul, when he's Angelus none of that matters. If anda put a chip in Angelus's head would he loose his taste for Scoobie violence? atau in Drusilla's head? atau Darla?
anda see? Substitute any other vampire and it just doesn't work. And if there's one thing Spike isn't, it's a pushover. Two measley years wouldn't be enough for him to realize-- without his soul-- the error of his ways because of his cinta for Buffy.
But that's just my humble opinion. Sorry, I needed to rant.
These demons were in love . . . with ripping out your heart!
'Out Of My Mind" Spike's dreadful dream about Buffy
