Most fans rejected this idea when I posted it and thought it lessened Spike's story...but I thought it would have enhanced it.
I remember when the spoilers leaked about Spike's soul, and I was brassed off about it. I didn't really want him to have it 'cause he didn't need it, and it was hard to basically be told how wrong I was, day in and day out, and that I was a horrible person for not seeing that this was the only way Spike could be a "real hero." *shakes head* Sigh, I don't miss the "good old days" of fandom, no way.
To refer to it as a (demon) soul makes it sound more holy, and they were a religious bunch in their own way, weren't they? Well, they were a heretical bunch towards the Catholics predominantly. It's the word "soul" that bothers me. They were speaking so reverently of the word, and then to basically spit and vomit it out later just seems out of place. Instead of "My soul is your soul" why not "my demon is your demon" or even "my spirit is your spirit?" It just really bothers me when I hear it.
As I mentioned in some of the other comments above, Darla has another S1-related semi-retcon. She very eloquently says how she feels about Angel in S1, but then later says that she never could have loved him. Maybe she meant that she could never have the true love hearts and flowers kind of feelings for him or that their love, when soulless, is not pure love or more of a perverted love. I like to believe that they did love one another. And it's easy to say different things when you're in different states of temperament or situations even if one feels the opposite way, so both her statements about loving Angel and not being able to love might be true in those moments to her. That's my interpretation, of course. Spike, ironically, adamantly said that demons cannot change, yet it's obvious that a lot of demons evolved to fit within the "normal" world and Spike himself evolved constantly.
I think one problem I see is that people are quick to say, "Well, obviously you didn't watch the same show I did" or "What show were you watching?" when they hear a different or weird opinion about the show. Lord knows I've heard it enough times from people (mostly because I don't have a favorable opinion of Chosen). I think I saw too much on IDW's forum of arguments being made, evidence being presented to the contrary, and instead of both sides just admitting that there's room for more than one interpretation (especially when people can't decide if sources outside the show can be used in a debate instead of what was contextual shown on screen), it just devolves into locked threads and madness, which is why I posted the questions on here from the arguments other posters were making- I wanted to see if they truly were how other people felt. It's been an interesting read thus far!
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I remember when the spoilers leaked about Spike's soul, and I was brassed off about it. I didn't really want him to have it 'cause he didn't need it, and it was hard to basically be told how wrong I was, day in and day out, and that I was a horrible person for not seeing that this was the only way Spike could be a "real hero." *shakes head* Sigh, I don't miss the "good old days" of fandom, no way.
To refer to it as a (demon) soul makes it sound more holy, and they were a religious bunch in their own way, weren't they?
Well, they were a heretical bunch towards the Catholics predominantly. It's the word "soul" that bothers me. They were speaking so reverently of the word, and then to basically spit and vomit it out later just seems out of place. Instead of "My soul is your soul" why not "my demon is your demon" or even "my spirit is your spirit?" It just really bothers me when I hear it.
As I mentioned in some of the other comments above, Darla has another S1-related semi-retcon. She very eloquently says how she feels about Angel in S1, but then later says that she never could have loved him. Maybe she meant that she could never have the true love hearts and flowers kind of feelings for him or that their love, when soulless, is not pure love or more of a perverted love. I like to believe that they did love one another. And it's easy to say different things when you're in different states of temperament or situations even if one feels the opposite way, so both her statements about loving Angel and not being able to love might be true in those moments to her. That's my interpretation, of course. Spike, ironically, adamantly said that demons cannot change, yet it's obvious that a lot of demons evolved to fit within the "normal" world and Spike himself evolved constantly.
I think one problem I see is that people are quick to say, "Well, obviously you didn't watch the same show I did" or "What show were you watching?" when they hear a different or weird opinion about the show. Lord knows I've heard it enough times from people (mostly because I don't have a favorable opinion of Chosen). I think I saw too much on IDW's forum of arguments being made, evidence being presented to the contrary, and instead of both sides just admitting that there's room for more than one interpretation (especially when people can't decide if sources outside the show can be used in a debate instead of what was contextual shown on screen), it just devolves into locked threads and madness, which is why I posted the questions on here from the arguments other posters were making- I wanted to see if they truly were how other people felt. It's been an interesting read thus far!