I don't say that Joss didn't care about Spike. But I think that for Joss the focus of season 7 wasn't Buffy and Spike; it was Buffy and Potentials. And in s8 he develops the latter arc. Spike (as well as Angel) would distract the audience from the main arc.
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Date: 2009-01-13 07:50 pm (UTC)Just my impression.