I just like to think how confused Tara's family was about Spike hitting Tara and screaming, because of course they have no idea he's a vampire with a chip in his head from a secret government initiative. So the Scoobies are 100% certain Tara is not a demon while Tara's family is lie "wait what...?"
Dawn: “You don’t wanna mess with us.” Buffy: “She’s a hair puller” Buffy: “… and I’m a being with superhuman strength and speed that has defeated countless demons and vampires.”
The notion of a woman being chauvinistically exploited & repressed for decades is horrible.I'd like to think that when they get back home,Tara's sister is gonna make some changes.
I see far too many people saying Spike cares because he hurt himself to prove Tara wasn't a demon. Spike is a vapid, attention seeking narcissist. To him, a few seconds of intense pain was well worth being able to say (without actually saying it) "hey, look at this thing I was able to figure out before anyone else".
Well, the punch from Spike proved she isn't a demon to us the viewers and to the scoobie gang but her family wouldn't of known what that was all about and would've just continued pushing to take Tara with them. I would've expected Spike to have to show his demon face to really cow those maggots or for Willow to do something to them with magic or for Buffy to throw one of them into the wall.
People seem to think Spike stepped up because he cares… he doesn’t. But he absolutely would step in just to watch that maggot of a man squirm. He loves pushing peoples buttons.
"I swear by your full and manl beard you'll break something trying" might well be the best line spoken by Nicholas Brendan during his entire time on the show. I would have liked to see that.
Instant fan fic: my immediate reaction to Tara's family as my ego surrogate, insinuated in character is, "...And by the way, assholes, where were you when Tara needed you? Now you come groveling to take her back, threatening and pleading like the transparent jerks you are!"
It’s funny Spike says he doesn’t care but puts himself in pain to prove Tara’s not a demon. Even without a soul, he still formed some kind of connection with all of the Scoobies, from a friendship with Dawn and Willow, to a sort of friendship with Tara and a love hate relationship with Buffy. Xander and Giles just hate his guts, but the other 4s friendlyish relationship with him keep him around
If you consider Neil Gaiman's American Gods , there mguth be a lot that are causationally annoying, rather than innate evil,due to the disrespectful formulation of their assembly. Like...PVC solvents are invisible demonic money holy to the satanic armorer but very toxic to humans, that is accorded by default as reparations if the sale should fail to recoup the expenditure.
Sure, he's a bit of a tsundere, but Spike demonstrates again and again that he's more good than evil. In the end, he just wanted someone to love him back.
Back in 1999 at GenCon in Milwaukee I Met James Masters(Spike) he signed my monster book of monsters but then my apartment building caught on fire and I lost everything
I love situations were very real-life bullies come up against a supernatural, super-skilled gang like this lot and get their asses handed to them. Imagine if Tara's brother had tried to 'beat her down' here? Xander alone could have taken him. Kind of makes you want to see what would have happened if they'd tried to take her by force. A lot of pain. Special mention to Spike as well for ending the argument there and then. Interesting how he literally got nothing out of it - in fact he got a headache. Nice little character moment to show who Spike really is. But it does raise some plot holes about his chip. It suggests the chip can detect humans and non-humans and doesn't just rely on Spike's brainwaves; like he gets a certain rush when he's going for a human. That is one super powerful bit of tech.
Family don’t end in blood. But it doesn’t start there either. Family cares about you, not what you can do for them. Family’s there for you, through the good, the bad, all of it. They got your back, even when it hurts. That’s family.
And for Tara's disobeying the family, Willow nearly destroys the world. They wound up having a point, which Spike himself made about magic: there's always consequences. Always.
When Willow says "I know that," I was sure she was about to unleash her special kind hell. Maybe we weren't aware of how powerful Willow is when she fully unleashes her powers.
