About Spike's Soul

POSTED BY: Haken
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 13:32
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HAKEN

Monday, June 24, 2002 10:45 AM

Well, the following was from SCIFI.COM:

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Marsters told SCI FI Wire that Spike will be a vampire with a soul, not a human, as speculated. But he added that he doesn't know if Spike will turn out to be good or evil. "I could be unleashed as the big villain, or I could be the big goody two-shoes crackerjack boy," he said. "I have no idea." But Spike's attempted rape of Buffy at the end of last season will cause a rift between him and Dawn.

Somehow this doesn't seem right.

BLAISE

Monday, June 24, 2002 2:22 PM

what doesn't seem right about it?

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that spike is going to be a vamp with a soul? i don't like it either, it seems too Angelish, it's been done.

Blaise

ZICSOFT

Monday, June 24, 2002 3:41 PM

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what doesn't seem right about it?

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that spike is going to be a vamp with a soul? i don't like it either, it seems too Angelish, it's been done.

Good point. In the past I would have said, "Yeah, it looks dumb, but I'm sure they'll find an original way to spin it." But after some of the hackneyed stories in Season 6...

Still, I have some hope for this story line. It's the main reason I'll be tuning in come fall.

BOBKNAPTOR

Monday, June 24, 2002 5:58 PM

I am sure that Spikes vampy soul will be a far cry from Angel. Spike has had so much character development this past season and a half (since his chipping). I don't think he's going to be the brooding, lurking type that angel was.

I think the biggest obsticle to overcome will be the attempted rape issue. I had heard a rumor that one of the main cast would die at the end of last season, but I didn't know who it was. I have loved Spike since the beginning. But when he tried to rape Buffy, I was hoping that he would be the one they killed off. I couldn't believe they had his character do that. At the time, I thought it was unredeemable. I thought I'd never be able to like him again. (Don't ask why, but murdering vampire was more forgivable, rapist, not so much.) But then when I saw that he went so far to get his soul back, he redeemed himself somewhat in my mind, and I do see a road back for him.

I just have to say that In Joss I Trust.

Joan the Vampire Slayer: A vampire with a soul? Oh my god, how lame is that?

ZICSOFT

Monday, June 24, 2002 7:16 PM

It's funny how people sympathize with Spike. I think it start even before he got chipped. Maybe it's because he's just so cool. Sure he's a mass murderer. But what's that compared to always knowing just the right thing to say?

BOBKNAPTOR

Monday, June 24, 2002 10:06 PM

I guess Spike is kinda cool... but I always think of him as the lovable loser. Aside from a few short months at the beginning of season 2, he's always been at least second fiddle. He's always trying to make things better, it's just that he usually chooses the worst possible plan to do it. Example: in As you Were, he's got all those stupid demon eggs he was going to sell to get money so Buffy wouldn't have to work at the Doublemeat Palace. His heart was in the right place... (who DIDN'T want to save buffy from the fate worse then death?)

No, I'm a rebel. You're an idiot. Give the lot of us a bad name.

ZICSOFT

Monday, June 24, 2002 11:15 PM

Heart in the right place? He risks getting thousands of people killed so his girlfriend won't have to work in a drive-in!

Speaking of which, I'm sure everybody knows by now that Doublemeat Palace is gone, the victim of thin-skinned sponsors. Wonder how they get written out. Hopefully B has found something more dignified! Didn't her career placement test say, "cop"? Of course, the recruiting officer was a homicidal demon, but there are good cops too!

BLAISE

Tuesday, June 25, 2002 2:26 AM

I've been a fan of Spike since the days of Spike and Dru, he always seemed to have the potential to be more human, and then they chipped him, I was like, YAY!, now everyone can see that he's an ok guy when he's not trying to rip people apart.

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Speaking of which, I'm sure everybody knows by now that Doublemeat Palace is gone, the victim of thin-skinned sponsors. Wonder how they get written out. Hopefully B has found something more dignified! Didn't her career placement test say, "cop"? Of course, the recruiting officer was a homicidal demon, but there are good cops too!

Well, one of the spoilers I got was that Buffy's new job would be in some way associated with the High school. How? I'm not sure, since she didn't finish college. Janitor? Lunch lady maybe?

Blaise

JOCE

Tuesday, June 25, 2002 3:25 AM

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Well, one of the spoilers I got was that Buffy's new job would be in some way associated with the High school. How? I'm not sure, since she didn't finish college. Janitor? Lunch lady maybe?

Hey, maybe she could be the new librarian! LOL, okay, I guess not. But Giles would be so proud. I wonder if the new Sunnydale High needs an enforcement officer? Some schools have 'em.

I could see Willow going to work there, you know, after getting over the whole trying-to-destroy-the-world thing. I mean, she was the computer teacher for a while in season two.

-- Joce :)

PS: Think Xander's construction crew will be the ones to rebuild the place?

MOJOECA

Tuesday, June 25, 2002 3:48 AM

Spoiler text, people!

but anyway...about Buffy and the job sitch:

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the idea that Buffy would work at the school stems from an article in this week's EW. But the wording is vague. It says something like "Dawn enrolls at the newly reopened high school and Buffy gets a new job." Herc at AICN took this to suggest that Buffy's job is at the high school. But, it goes on to say that Joss wouldn't divulge *where* she works next season, so... OTOH, working at the Sunnydale high is logical (in an administrative/secretarial position) -- she would want to keep an eye on the hellmouth.

--- Joe

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