the end of Buffy?
you may well be right Aleck, but the way i saw it that demon that was setting all those tests for Spike must have seen beyond the front that he was showing, in order to know to give him back his soul. after all, when Spike first meets this creature, its first response is to berate him for not being evil anymore- for being weak. outwardly Spike is not happy about this and seems to want to go back to being the bad guy he was when we first met him. on the surface then you would assume that the ultimate result of Spike’s testing would be at least the cancelling out of the affects of the chip, so he could return to how he was in that sense. but then we remember Spike, the lovesick puppy- and then you have someone that has been spurned by his beloved. love is something that takes something quite spectacular to be destroyed and although in the last episodes buffy has basically treated him like crap for which he would obviously be angry, inside he would be hurting and wondering why…and would want her back. and thats why i thought that he would want to become human again, and that demon realised this.
[ 31-05-2002: Message edited by: snooklepie ]