You are definitely overromanticizing my view re: Spike, since the point of my original piece was how he appears in contrast to Angel, and I clearly stated what I saw to be his negative points. When I say, "there is no Angelus-style bad side to this guy," that means exactly what it says it means - Angelus-style. Spike is not, and never really has been, the same type of calculated, artistic killer as Angelus. Enthusiastic killer yes, as all vampires are, but as we saw in "Damage," with a fundamental difference in approach. Enthusiasm is not the same thing as calculation, nor is self-interest. Spike makes Angel doubt himself, because he's lucked into, or arrived at through self-interest, choices that put them together in a similar place. So have his hundred years of infinite remorse been for nothing? Would the Powers be that cruel? These are the questions that Angel is asking himself in S5... because Spike is there to make him wonder about them.
And again, I think the point of Spike is that synthesis between instinct and "act, whereas Angel/Angelus are two separate beings... or at least that's how Angel's tried to box them up and deal with them, at least until NFA. Black and White. Good and Evil. While, Spike, with his synthesis, is eternally gray.
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Date: 2004-09-23 10:48 pm (UTC)And again, I think the point of Spike is that synthesis between instinct and "act, whereas Angel/Angelus are two separate beings... or at least that's how Angel's tried to box them up and deal with them, at least until NFA. Black and White. Good and Evil. While, Spike, with his synthesis, is eternally gray.