Don Sample <dsample@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> In article
> <5234a623-0e00-4772-a85a-a615437462da@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> m>,
> Arbitrar Of Quality <tsmtsm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> On May 12, 11:26 am, Don Sample <dsam...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> > I've always thought it was the other way around. The monks
>> > wanted Dawn protected, so when they were planting memories in
>> > everyone, they planted a compulsion to protect Dawn into
>> > Spike, and they also planted the idea into Buffy that Spike
>> > could be trusted with her sister.
>> >
>> > Spike deciding that he was in love with Buffy was his way of
>> > rationalizing all the unvampirey protective feelings he was
>> > having toward Dawn. He didn't protect Dawn for Buffy's sake.
>>
>> I never know when people are joking.
>>
>> -AOQ
>
> I'm not joking.
>
> How else can you explain Spike not getting a stake through his
> heart after his attempt to get the chip removed in "Out of my
> Mind" or kidnapping Buffy in "Crush"?
Because, given Spike's personality and the characteristics of the
chip, it isn't entirely clear that it's a good idea to kill him.
Especially after learning that Spike has acquired an additional
incentive to ally himself with Buffy.
--
Michael Ikeda mmikeda@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Telling a statistician not to use sampling is like telling an
astronomer they can't say there is a moon and stars"
Lynne Billard, past president American Statistical Association
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