For me it is as simple as this: he got his soul back to "give the bitch what she deserves". Yes, he was angry, called her a bad name and all that, but he said what she "deserved". He WAS an "evil soulless thing": he opted to change that in an attempt to be what she deserved, not knowing at all if she would accept him. He went through torture just to BE that, just to try. Helluva motivation, I say.
And then it drove him mad.
This makes his character all the more WOW to me, all the more unpredictable and complex and interesting to watch. No Mary-Jane easy to peg guy that Spike. Yeahy!!
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Date: 2009-01-27 03:22 am (UTC)For me it is as simple as this: he got his soul back to "give the bitch what she deserves". Yes, he was angry, called her a bad name and all that, but he said what she "deserved". He WAS an "evil soulless thing": he opted to change that in an attempt to be what she deserved, not knowing at all if she would accept him. He went through torture just to BE that, just to try. Helluva motivation, I say.
And then it drove him mad.
This makes his character all the more WOW to me, all the more unpredictable and complex and interesting to watch. No Mary-Jane easy to peg guy that Spike. Yeahy!!