I don't think it's that Spike is crazy that's a cop out, it's really that he's crazy in a way that's...relatable. He's crazy in a way that makes sense. Which I suppose ties back to the idea of feeling sorry for him, because if he was crazy in a way that was more truly off, he could very easily be a lot more scary than pitiable.
And it's not just crazy, it's also The First messing with him. I don't think it really takes the influence of The First to make 'vampire with newly acquired soul' into loose cannon just waiting to blow up. And by making his actions because of The First, to some extent it is taking away a culpability that he might have earned on his own (probably in different ways), and removing the idea of responsibility from Spike. That's an odd thing to do when you've just given him a soul and in a way made him responsible for the first time.
I also feel like Spike is too much like Dru when he's crazy (and different people should break differently), but that may be just me, and it may be an imperfect remembrance of S7, for that matter.
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Date: 2013-04-11 02:55 pm (UTC)And it's not just crazy, it's also The First messing with him. I don't think it really takes the influence of The First to make 'vampire with newly acquired soul' into loose cannon just waiting to blow up. And by making his actions because of The First, to some extent it is taking away a culpability that he might have earned on his own (probably in different ways), and removing the idea of responsibility from Spike. That's an odd thing to do when you've just given him a soul and in a way made him responsible for the first time.
I also feel like Spike is too much like Dru when he's crazy (and different people should break differently), but that may be just me, and it may be an imperfect remembrance of S7, for that matter.
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