Lovely essay on AtS5 Spike. Thank you. :) And I'm always looking at everything from every angle - and *hopelessly* positive.
Spike persuading Angel not to send Illyria back to the Well and kill everyone in her path in Shells. You mean this bit (which is from the very end of AHiTW):
DROGYN: This is a place of madness. I'll prepare the spell. Your choice. ANGEL: To hell with the world. (follows Drogyn) ANGEL: Spike... SPIKE: This goes all the way through to the other side. So, I figure, there's a bloke somewhere around New Zealand standing on a bridge like this one, looking back down at us. All the way down. There's a hole in the world. Feels like we ought to have known.
Because I'm not sure that Angel would have followed through on it. Also... he's no different to Buffy in The Gift:
GILES: If the ritual starts, then every living creature in this and every other dimension imaginable will suffer unbearable torment and death... including Dawn. BUFFY: Then the last thing she'll see is me protecting her.
as he finally seems to get the worth of individual people in the abstract, rather than just ones he likes or loves I think that came in 'Damage', but it never got tested until AHiTW. And as for Wood's mother, then I think he was very pissed off that someone he trusted had tried to murder him. I'm not saying that he wasn't brutal, but there was a reason. He ain't a saint exactly.
And as for Angel... well then I think he fell (or began falling for real) in 'Conviction'. ("What happened to mercy?"/"You just saw the last of it!")
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Thank you. :) And I'm always looking at everything from every angle - and *hopelessly* positive.
Spike persuading Angel not to send Illyria back to the Well and kill everyone in her path in Shells.
You mean this bit (which is from the very end of AHiTW):
DROGYN: This is a place of madness. I'll prepare the spell. Your choice.
ANGEL: To hell with the world.
(follows Drogyn)
ANGEL: Spike...
SPIKE: This goes all the way through to the other side. So, I figure, there's a bloke somewhere around New Zealand standing on a bridge like this one, looking back down at us. All the way down. There's a hole in the world. Feels like we ought to have known.
Because I'm not sure that Angel would have followed through on it. Also... he's no different to Buffy in The Gift:
GILES: If the ritual starts, then every living creature in this and every other dimension imaginable will suffer unbearable torment and death... including Dawn.
BUFFY: Then the last thing she'll see is me protecting her.
as he finally seems to get the worth of individual people in the abstract, rather than just ones he likes or loves
I think that came in 'Damage', but it never got tested until AHiTW. And as for Wood's mother, then I think he was very pissed off that someone he trusted had tried to murder him. I'm not saying that he wasn't brutal, but there was a reason. He ain't a saint exactly.
And as for Angel... well then I think he fell (or began falling for real) in 'Conviction'. ("What happened to mercy?"/"You just saw the last of it!")