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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 226675" data-attributes="member: 151">Agreed.  It becomes a 'been there, done that' situation.  An amoral, vamp spike was amusing for a while.  So was the chipped, and then lovesick phases.  Spike as a lovesick suitor who's human and can't convince anyone he's not a jerk anymore (if in fact, he stops being one) would be worth some laughs.  Especially if he turns human, as the slayer would be far less likely to harm him (at least, after she beats the crap out of him). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But I'm just not quite clear how they could heal any of the damage from this season with regards to Spike.  I'd love to see Spike become a watcher fill-in, but I don't see how they could make that happen with a chipped, souled vampire.My main problem with Spike as a 'vamp with a soul' is that it was such a big deal (and considered virtually unthinkable) back in season one.  This came out of left field so quickly, that it's hard to accept that a trial existed (regardless of how difficult) that could provide such, that the watchers wouldn't be moderately aware of.  I mean, surely somebody would've succeded before, yes?  I'm over-analyzing, I know.</blockquote>