Spike


William The Bloody. Spike. One of the most complex, evolving television characters ever. As a human, William the poet felt his unrequited love consume him. It would be a theme that would continue into his undead life also. First with Druscilla, and then of course with Buffy.
Ironically, the only woman who really totally fell for her Blondie Bear was Harmony, and typically, Spike didn't return her love - for by that time he was consumed with his conflicting love/hate/lust/have-to-kill-her emotions for the Slayer. Although he had killed two previous Slayers, his vortex of feelings towards Buffy propels the evolution of his character.


Created by Joss Whedon,and adeptly played by James Marsters, the character of Spike grows from what could have been a one-shot villain into one of the most fan-loved vampires of all time. Through his tortured romance with Druscilla, his quirky rebound romance with Harmony, and into the there's-a-chip-in-my-brain-so-I-can't-hurt-human years, Spike grows into a full-fledged three-dimensional character who must come to terms with his feelings of love for his sworn enemy. Finally, in Season 6 of Buffy, in the Best Episode Of TV Of ALL Time (hey, this is my blog, I say Once More With Feeling rocks my world -- how many other episodes of TV have their own CD?), Spike finally tells it like it is, in a song, to the Slayer:









By the end of that season, Spike goes on a quest to re-attain his soul, thinking this is the way to Buffy's heart. Through the oft-misguided Season 7, Spike is now one of the good guys and at the end of the series, he commits the ultimate sacrifice to Save The World.
You would think that going up in flames during a thwarted apocalypse would stop most people. Not Spike.
He's back in the final season of Angel, conjured up at Wolfram & Hart by the Powers That Be, where he's reuinited not only with Harmony but also with his other long-term arch rival, Angel. Once again, he comes out on our side of the Good v/s Evil battle, and bravely forges into the final credits to face yet another apocalypse.
Spike - with his leather trench coat, frosted hair, razor sharp cheekbones and a smartass wit to match them, he is arguably one of the strongest supporting characters in television history. Makes you want to pop a disc of Buffy into the DVD player, doesn't it?



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