Re: Shipping at length, now completely OT

[danspector@xxxxxxxxx]

Regarding Spike's speech in "Becoming, Part 2" and it's common use to
claim that Spike is a nice vampire, pre-chip, or that vampires don't
normally want to end the world, and other pro-soulless concepts:

Let's remember one important fact--it's a lie. 

I repeat, Spike's "I like the world" speech is a lie. He's just
stalling because he doesn't want to admit the [pathetic] truth--"I want
Dru back."

I'm sure he enjoys Manchester United and dog racing, but that didn't
stop him from helping Dru assemble the Judge (indeed, he gave her the
Judge as a present) so that she could destroy the world.  

Buffy knows it's a lie, that's why she doesn't believe it, and presses
further for the truth. She only accepts his assistance when he admits
it's AllAboutDru.

Later in the ep, Spike's own actions reveal the truth behind his pretty
words--when Angel has Buffy at his mercy, and is about to kill her and
bring forth the apocalypse, Spike takes a second to think, then shrugs
his shoulders and walks off. What does he care, he's got Dru back,
that's all that really matters to him. Hilarious, and entirely in
character. (So famous a moment, in fact, it was in James Marsters's
credits in the Season 4 titles.)

Spike's fine with the "end of the world", at least as defined in Seasons
1-4, where the humans are killed by the Hellmouth demons or burnt by the
Judge or sent to Acathla's realm for eternal torment, and the vampires
enjoy life in the pandemonic paradise the Earth once was. He may not
actively campaign for it, preferring the baser pleasures of fighting and
slayer-killing, but he has no real objection to the end of humanity.
The fact that he made a cute speech in a (failed) attempt to hide how
Dru-whipped he was does not change this.

Dan

who is getting a clue and finally saving this rant because I have to
post it somewhere about once a month