DM_Matt
First Post
Spike is evil is two particular ways:
1.) being a vampire, and being that fighting is what he does best, he needs to fight every so often in order to be happy. Thats why he now fights demons instead of people. But really, it satisfies ihm just as much.
2.) The primary problem: He perfectly fits the profile of the typical controlling sexually predatory abusive boyfriend. He is violent, deceitful, and manipulative in his quest for steady sex. This quality was probably derived from a twisting of the romantic nature of William which still manifests itself in his propensity for watching soap operas, etc.
More than anything else, Spike is driven by sex. He was ok when he was with Dru, because he got all he needed at that point, and because she LIKED the violence. However, look at his later life. After Dru dumps him, his first reaction is to attempt to COMPEL her to take him back by returning to Sunnydale to get Willow to cast a love spell on Dru. (Although he eventually changes his mind.
When he first gets with Harmony, he abuses, beats, lies to,and manipulates her, keeping her around as a sex toy. In typical batted woman form, she always either stays of comes back soon. When she runs back to his crypt thinking that Buffy is out to kill her, the first thing that he asks for is more sex.
He relationship with Buffy is also born of violence. He is constantly confusing how much he want to kill her and how much he wants to screw her. Much of the time, they start with fighting and end with screwing.
Earlier this season, when he got with Anya, the writers made a point of her saying that "I'm only doing this because I'm drunk and lonely." That was the intermediate step before he outright tried to rape Buffy, which is when he hit rock bottom and decided that he had to get himself a soul so that he can stop.
Thus, in context of the previous conversation, he is not a threat to Dawn, because I seriously doubt that he would see her as a sexual object, especially since he is something of (indeed, the closest approximation of) a father figure to her.
1.) being a vampire, and being that fighting is what he does best, he needs to fight every so often in order to be happy. Thats why he now fights demons instead of people. But really, it satisfies ihm just as much.
2.) The primary problem: He perfectly fits the profile of the typical controlling sexually predatory abusive boyfriend. He is violent, deceitful, and manipulative in his quest for steady sex. This quality was probably derived from a twisting of the romantic nature of William which still manifests itself in his propensity for watching soap operas, etc.
More than anything else, Spike is driven by sex. He was ok when he was with Dru, because he got all he needed at that point, and because she LIKED the violence. However, look at his later life. After Dru dumps him, his first reaction is to attempt to COMPEL her to take him back by returning to Sunnydale to get Willow to cast a love spell on Dru. (Although he eventually changes his mind.
When he first gets with Harmony, he abuses, beats, lies to,and manipulates her, keeping her around as a sex toy. In typical batted woman form, she always either stays of comes back soon. When she runs back to his crypt thinking that Buffy is out to kill her, the first thing that he asks for is more sex.
He relationship with Buffy is also born of violence. He is constantly confusing how much he want to kill her and how much he wants to screw her. Much of the time, they start with fighting and end with screwing.
Earlier this season, when he got with Anya, the writers made a point of her saying that "I'm only doing this because I'm drunk and lonely." That was the intermediate step before he outright tried to rape Buffy, which is when he hit rock bottom and decided that he had to get himself a soul so that he can stop.
Thus, in context of the previous conversation, he is not a threat to Dawn, because I seriously doubt that he would see her as a sexual object, especially since he is something of (indeed, the closest approximation of) a father figure to her.
