QUOTE (Amber-Nicole @ Dec 10 2003, 10:03 PM)
Personally, Spike was always my favorite Buffy boyfriend. Just the right combination of naughty and sweet to make for an interesting character.
Got to say that I much preferred the bad Spike. I liked him much more as a character. Having said that I thought it was a very cool use of the character in the finale. I just had a little trouble with his disposition once he got his soul back.
There are two vampires that have regained their souls. Angel and Spike.
Angel before he became a vampire was an absolute bastard and when he back a vamp with no soul the most vicious vamp to have ever walked the earth.
Spike before he became a vampire was and insipid little mothers boy who wrote poetry and had no confidence. When he became a vamp with no soul he earned a rep that rivalled Angel's.
Angel when his soul was returned was crushed with the guilt of his actions and the pain he had caused and thus began to walk the path of redemption.
Spike when his soul was returned seemed to have no ill effects from his century of killing and maiming.
Now for my mind of the two that would have been more crushed with the return of their souls it should have been Spike. Yet this is not the case. It appears that only the sensitive part of his soul that has a thing for Buffy was returned - and let's face it, that was already there because he already had this infatuation with Buffy. On the same line of thinking one would have thought that Angel should have still been his self-centred individual as he didn't mind hurting people before he was embraced.
I still love the series, but this is just one inconsistency that really bothered me.
Vamp Willow if definitely my favourite Willow incarnation, however :-)