Not as completely crazy, but he was certainly rambling incoherently in front of the fireplace when Darla found him (and realized pretty soon just what was wrong with him). It occurs to me that Darla herself needed a while to get it together when she was resurrected human (and thus with a soul), but then we didn't see most of that (just the moment immediately after her resurrection and a glimpse in the season opener), which was months later); and she did have her less than stable moments afterwards (the "we're soul mates" joke comes to mind) afterwards, though as opposed to the guys, her solution was to hope to get rid of it again as soon as possible.
Given that Buffy's previous experience to vampires with and without souls had been limited to one, and Angel actually had given a demonstration he could fake both soullessness (in Enemies) and soulfulness (the all time worst morning after scene depended on her not knowing he had lost his soul) in the respective other state, I think if Spike had shown up and announced "I got my soul back" in however subdued fashion, she would have almost inevitably distrusted this. But seeing him in this state established to her from that moment onwards he'd really done it.
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Date: 2013-04-07 03:58 pm (UTC)Given that Buffy's previous experience to vampires with and without souls had been limited to one, and Angel actually had given a demonstration he could fake both soullessness (in Enemies) and soulfulness (the all time worst morning after scene depended on her not knowing he had lost his soul) in the respective other state, I think if Spike had shown up and announced "I got my soul back" in however subdued fashion, she would have almost inevitably distrusted this. But seeing him in this state established to her from that moment onwards he'd really done it.