You know, I read a fic one time that said that the reason that Spike had so much of his humanity left was because his body was inhabited by a wee baby demon instead of one of the scary fully matured ones. Then again, Spike had survival skills, cunning, and agility, and if that's what you get from having a baby demon, then the bumbling newly-risen vamps we saw on the show got screwed by having full grown ones. I really liked that fic though. I have no idea where I was going with this, but what you said reminded me of it.
I just keep thinking that the writers have never and will never understand what in God's name the vampires of this universe are. One minute they have humanity, the next minute they're raving animals. The show has tumbled back and forth about what they are and what they mean. If Buffy's Lie to Me description of "The demon sets up shop in your old house, and it walks like you and it has your memories, but it's not you" is true, then why are vampires troubled by their human lives? Why do they care? Why can their feelings be hurt by things that happened when they were human? Why do they have feelings at all? It makes the case of Angel's soul all the more baffling and confusing. It's Liam's soul added to a demon that somehow doesn't act anything like the demon acted before when really human souls seem to make very little difference to human behavior. That's all compounded by Spike who remains relatively unfazed by having a soul at the point that he gets one. Either Spike and (God help me) Harmony are just more evolved vampire beings, or something amiss. And now the vampires are remote controlled zombies even though if all the walls are closed down so the demons can't get through, how can they be remotely controlling anything? This is the kind of thing that Lewis Black said will make your brain explode if you think too hard about it.
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Date: 2012-01-17 03:10 am (UTC)I just keep thinking that the writers have never and will never understand what in God's name the vampires of this universe are. One minute they have humanity, the next minute they're raving animals. The show has tumbled back and forth about what they are and what they mean. If Buffy's Lie to Me description of "The demon sets up shop in your old house, and it walks like you and it has your memories, but it's not you" is true, then why are vampires troubled by their human lives? Why do they care? Why can their feelings be hurt by things that happened when they were human? Why do they have feelings at all? It makes the case of Angel's soul all the more baffling and confusing. It's Liam's soul added to a demon that somehow doesn't act anything like the demon acted before when really human souls seem to make very little difference to human behavior. That's all compounded by Spike who remains relatively unfazed by having a soul at the point that he gets one. Either Spike and (God help me) Harmony are just more evolved vampire beings, or something amiss. And now the vampires are remote controlled zombies even though if all the walls are closed down so the demons can't get through, how can they be remotely controlling anything? This is the kind of thing that Lewis Black said will make your brain explode if you think too hard about it.