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> On May 9, 8:13 pm, "One Bit Shy" <O...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > It's more than that. Spike's conversations with Dawn are used to draw
out
> > the changes going on inside Spike. Sometimes more clearly than with
Buffy
> > because, with Dawn, the obsession can be distanced. Look at their
> > conversation in Tough Love for example. But again, I'm not talking
merely
> > about people's feelings for Dawn directly. Dawn is central to Spike's
> > character in S5 because protecting her is the catalyst to breaking
through
> > Buffy's defenses, getting her to treat Spike like a man. Spike does
care
> > about Dawn personally, but more im****tantly she is the object by which
> > Spike's elevation beyond simple vampire can be measured. In the end
he
> > fails to protect Dawn, while Buffy succeeds in an act of ultimate
heroism.
> > That little play (with Buffy as role model and Dawn as measure) is
> > representative of Spike's upcoming story where he fails to repress his
> > evil,
> > changes the paradigm by getting a soul, and ultimately mimics Buffy
one
> > last
> > time with his own act of ultimate heroism.
>
> See, again, that's kinda my point. Dawn is primarily im****tant to
> Spike's story because she's an extension of Buffy.
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.
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