Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 1236463" data-attributes="member: 93">Some snipping by me...It's more than that.Buffy's change of heart towards Spike came in Season 5, actually.  Spike was tortured by Glory to tell what the key was (Dawn) and he refused.  This was around the same time that Spike had had a Buffy robot made to satisy his Buffy fixation.  The Scoobs found the robot in the same episode as the torturing, and when it was all over, Buffy went to Spike, pretending to be the robot in order to find out why he hadn't betrayed her.  He ordered Buffy (thinking she was the robot) not to tell Glory about Dawn, and explained that it would kill Buffy if anything happened to her, and he couldn't let that happen.  That was what convinced Buffy that Spike could be trusted with Dawn.True, if the chip had been removed, all bets were off, but Spike's change of heart was evident by late season 5.</blockquote>