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rusty_haloWhat a load of bullshit.
Yeah, 'cause moping around feeling guilty about the past is such a great way to get things done. Um, ... what?
You can't change the past. It's done. Over. Nothing you do will fix it.
Dwelling on that fact? Is not going to solve anything. It's just going to prevent you from doing good in the future, 'cause you're you're too busy moping and whining and being self-indulgent.
Spike, OTOH, had it right the first time. You can't change the past; all you can do is change the future. He was moving forward, having an effect now instead of whining about something he can't change.
Well, until the end of the episode, when he realized Angel was "right." Yeah, whatever. That's not my Spike. And my philosophical difference with this show is clearly too great for me to continue caring about it.
Like I said, what a load of bullshit.
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And you know, it would have been a good episode, otherwise. The writing was nice and subtle and the Andrew parts were wonderful. But I'm just so completely disgusted with the selling-out of the last vestiges of a Spike that I could've possibly found interesting or appealing. This is Spike, literally the Angel-clone, and I never liked Angel to begin with. I don't need Spike to become him. Literally everything that ever once interested me about the character is now officially gone.
Yeah, 'cause moping around feeling guilty about the past is such a great way to get things done. Um, ... what?
You can't change the past. It's done. Over. Nothing you do will fix it.
Dwelling on that fact? Is not going to solve anything. It's just going to prevent you from doing good in the future, 'cause you're you're too busy moping and whining and being self-indulgent.
Spike, OTOH, had it right the first time. You can't change the past; all you can do is change the future. He was moving forward, having an effect now instead of whining about something he can't change.
Well, until the end of the episode, when he realized Angel was "right." Yeah, whatever. That's not my Spike. And my philosophical difference with this show is clearly too great for me to continue caring about it.
Like I said, what a load of bullshit.
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And you know, it would have been a good episode, otherwise. The writing was nice and subtle and the Andrew parts were wonderful. But I'm just so completely disgusted with the selling-out of the last vestiges of a Spike that I could've possibly found interesting or appealing. This is Spike, literally the Angel-clone, and I never liked Angel to begin with. I don't need Spike to become him. Literally everything that ever once interested me about the character is now officially gone.