What season is you favourite SPIKE season? (Spoilers)
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Friday, August 25, 2006 21:27
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Gotta go for Buffy Season Seven - Souled!Spike is the way to go. However, I would like to throw in my opinion that Spike truly loved Buffy before he got his soul, but he didn't understand what that meant until he could tell right from wrong in a more than intellectual fashion.
On Angel Season Five: I thought Spike was great there, actually. I don't think it undercuts his sacrifice - after all, the message of Buffy is "Live," and the message of Angel is "Let's get to work." Thus, his coming back fulfills both of those injunctions, and he does it with such verve that I just love him. Plus, hey, he's cool. And I can always believe he got the Shanshu and not Angel. :-)
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I really liked his first season(S2) on Buffy when he was with Dru. Loved how was so dismissive in taking out that little bastard who worked for the Master in S1. Also, Spike and Angelus together was great stuff especially in regards to both their relationships with Dru.
I was a huge fan of Spike on Angel during season 5. He really added a breath of fresh air. More like a hurricane actually. He had so many great moments. Don't know the names of the episodes so I'll just run down some of my favorite parts.
1. The entire episode where Spike is still a ghost and that guy is trying to send him to Hell is fantastic.
2. Spike vs. puppet Angel. Are you kidding me?! One of the best fight scenes ever.
3. The episode where that crazy slayer takes him hostage and proceeds to torture him is also a gem.
I don't think him coming back after sacrificing himself in any way diminished the character or the sacrifice. Joss knew what a gold mine Spike was as a character and how brilliantly he was portrayed by James Marsters. Joss just couldn't let go.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Hey!
YOU'RE NOT A SPIKE FAN!!!!!!!!!
I'm quick Chrisisall
Actually I like Spike, I just think the character was done a terrible disservice in the later years. Making him a regular on the show for longer than a couple of years was a mistake. I think, as AtS S5 attests, he would have worked a lot better in LA.
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Interesting. I never thought about Spike as a regular Angel character. He did show up a fair bit anyway, in flashbacks at least.
I doubt he would have got his soul back on Angel though. Well, maybe at some point since it did throw a spanner in the shansu works. Makes you wonder what he would have been like on that show if he'd been there longer.
I don't know how he would have switched to L.A though. I can see him leaving after Buffy's death in season 5, but once she came back wild horses wouldn't have dragged him away from her. Unless she rejected him again and it was too much for him to cope with. Alt Universe fic anyone?
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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
I liked his Angel appearances.
Do not forget the fight in "Destiny" which is one of my favorites in the entire series.
Spike has many great moments in season 5 of Angel.
"Hey big guy, gonna need another car, this last one ended up in the drink"
or
"I was confused you git! It's very loud in here!"
or
"No need to be gentle. We're all dead men here."
or
"First off I'm not wearing any amulets. No bracelets, broaches, beads, pendents, pins or rings."
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I'd have to go with season 4 Spike. He's not a good guy, he's not a bad guy, he's just there, and he's hilarious doing it.
"Haha, mine is an evil laugh."
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Quote:Buffy changed the rules, why not Angel and Spike?
Originally posted by tamnumber1:
And I can always believe he got the Shanshu and not Angel. :-)
They BOTH get it Chrisisall
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Quote:For the funny, I guess four is best (Plus, a GREAT fight w/Buffy over the Gem of Whosie-whatsis)
Originally posted by EvilDinosaur:
I'd have to go with season 4 Spike. He's not a good guy, he's not a bad guy, he's just there, and he's hilarious doing it.
What a memory Chrisisall
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On a Spikey subject (but not worth starting a new thread over) I was listening to the Rolling Stones song 'Laugh, I nearly died' and it had the line:
"Been to Africa looking for my soul".
I spent the rest of the song listening intently for clues that Mick Jagger is a Spike fan but I think it mayhave just been coincidence! 
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