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timepiececlock) wrote2002-10-04 01:24 am
timepiececlock) wrote2002-10-04 01:24 am
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In an interview, David Duchovney said this about Mulder's relationship with Scully: "She's his human credential."
I was just thinking.... in seasons past, I've always thought Spike's "human credential" --his claim to being worth more than a monster-- was his ability to love unconditionally. But according to Buffy, the scoobs, and Angel, a soul is the requisite "human credential." But I wonder now... now that he has a soul, will this new man that he's become be able to love unconditionally, like he did as a demon? And if he's different now, could he have lost his "human credential", or maybe traded up for a better one? As far as worthiness/purity goes, is a human soul --which we all no is not guaranteed to be good-- actaully better tahn unconditional love? Or does he now retain both?
..Or maybe Spike's "human credential" wasn't about loving Buffy at all... but Dawn. Before the ressurection, his relationship with Dawn was....pure. He loved & protected her, expecting nothing in return. And she gave him her complete, trust-- her utter faith in him, that he would do anythign for her safety and trust. Maybe that innocent relationship--not based on sex at all but on a familial and platonic love, was his "human credential".
If that was the case, he's lost it now. It's sad... the one thing he had that wasn't All!About!Buffy, and he lost it through neglect and then, through his All!About!Buffy problems (Seeing Red, which indirectly cost him Buffy's sister as well).
hm.... strange thoughts...
Maybe guilt is his human credential... but that's Angel's forum, right? I think for Spike its something more internal/emotional.
I was just thinking.... in seasons past, I've always thought Spike's "human credential" --his claim to being worth more than a monster-- was his ability to love unconditionally. But according to Buffy, the scoobs, and Angel, a soul is the requisite "human credential." But I wonder now... now that he has a soul, will this new man that he's become be able to love unconditionally, like he did as a demon? And if he's different now, could he have lost his "human credential", or maybe traded up for a better one? As far as worthiness/purity goes, is a human soul --which we all no is not guaranteed to be good-- actaully better tahn unconditional love? Or does he now retain both?
..Or maybe Spike's "human credential" wasn't about loving Buffy at all... but Dawn. Before the ressurection, his relationship with Dawn was....pure. He loved & protected her, expecting nothing in return. And she gave him her complete, trust-- her utter faith in him, that he would do anythign for her safety and trust. Maybe that innocent relationship--not based on sex at all but on a familial and platonic love, was his "human credential".
If that was the case, he's lost it now. It's sad... the one thing he had that wasn't All!About!Buffy, and he lost it through neglect and then, through his All!About!Buffy problems (Seeing Red, which indirectly cost him Buffy's sister as well).
hm.... strange thoughts...
Maybe guilt is his human credential... but that's Angel's forum, right? I think for Spike its something more internal/emotional.