Buffy's love life is not the Slayer organization. And Andrew exaggerating on matters of the heart is essential to his character because Andrew doesn't get romantic love in a realistic sense. Would you go to Andrew for advice on your relationship? Would you trust him to accurately judge your relatioship status? No, I wouldn't. Because he doesn't get it.
Also note in Damage how Andrew says nobody in his camp trusts Angel (and Spike by association) anymore. Nothing has changed since then, so there's no reason for Andrew to trust Angel and Spike with the truth either and no reason for Spike and Angel to believe he would trust them with the truth. Andrew established in Damage that the trust between the two sides is gone--there is nothing to re-establish this trust in TGIQ. This is why Angel was spying on Buffy (aka the Decoy) and why the men he sent were summarily attacked and put out of business.
Andrew is an authority (thought not the best) on the Slayer organization. But it's been established multiple times that Andrew doesn't trust Angel and by association Spike with the truth about the Slayer organization.
There is no current trust. There is loads and loads of deceit that Spike decides to ignore and in doing so, he makes a wrong decision. He's believing a lie when there is a lot of evidence that it's a lie. The evidence that it's a lie is what makes it so easy for the retcon to fly.
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Date: 2010-02-22 08:22 pm (UTC)Also note in Damage how Andrew says nobody in his camp trusts Angel (and Spike by association) anymore. Nothing has changed since then, so there's no reason for Andrew to trust Angel and Spike with the truth either and no reason for Spike and Angel to believe he would trust them with the truth. Andrew established in Damage that the trust between the two sides is gone--there is nothing to re-establish this trust in TGIQ. This is why Angel was spying on Buffy (aka the Decoy) and why the men he sent were summarily attacked and put out of business.
Andrew is an authority (thought not the best) on the Slayer organization. But it's been established multiple times that Andrew doesn't trust Angel and by association Spike with the truth about the Slayer organization.
There is no current trust. There is loads and loads of deceit that Spike decides to ignore and in doing so, he makes a wrong decision. He's believing a lie when there is a lot of evidence that it's a lie. The evidence that it's a lie is what makes it so easy for the retcon to fly.