Spike's Soul: What Does it Mean?

of her wanting to spend time with him was if she was a creature of darkness who “like[d] to roll in” the dirt and was therefore not as far above him as he had thought.

After that, Spike seemed to push his William side to the back burner. He was there in full force in "After Life", but as far as I could see he was already fading by the time we got to "Life Serial", when Spike started telling Buffy she belonged in the darkness. Almost all traces of his sensitive side were completely gone for me by the time he tried to kill that girl in the alley in Smashed.

I know that there are a lot of people who were upset by Buffy's behavior last year, and who think that her mistreatment of Spike somehow made his bad behavior her fault. In particular, I've seen a number of comments to the effect that, if Buffy had been nice to Spike and treated him like a boyfriend, then he would never have gotten angry and tried to attack that girl in "Smashed". I can't agree with that. Two wrongs do not make a right. The way Buffy had gone about pushing Spike away was wrong, but that was no excuse for Spike to try to kill someone. As Oz sarcastically said to Willow in "New Moon Rising", after finding out that getting angry with her could bring out the werewolf in him, "So we're safe then. 'Cause you'll never do that again." People in relationships sometimes make each other angry. Buffy could never have a real relationship with Spike if she had to worry that every time she upset him he might go out and try to kill someone. I think Buffy was right to not allow herself to fall in love with Spike before he started to see people other than Buffy and her circle of friends as real and before he started to understand that the way he was acting was wrong. The very fact that Spike would even consider attempting to kill an innocent person made me start to believe that maybe Buffy was right about him, maybe he was just evil and could never be anything else. It was with regret that I started to come around to the viewpoint that maybe the soul was more important than I had previously wanted to believe -- maybe

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