When he's introduced in School Hard: "Yeah, I did a couple Slayers in my time, I don't like to brag. Who am I kidding? I *love* to brag! There was this one Slayer during the Boxer Rebellion..."

James Marsden IS a nice guy! So is James Marsters (the actor who played Spike). :)

@@fuionochingsung5091 lol, I wrote right the first time and then saw someone wrote it different and I changed it - need to go to sleep instead of watching reaction videos 😂 the saddest part was the comment was reminding people that James Marsden is cyclops not Spike, but I just glanced at the name.

He does the entire Dresden Files audiobook except for one (which was done by John Glover). The author model Dresden after Spike... so it was fitting.

I ordered a cameo from him for my friend and he was incredibly sweet and genuine. A+ dude

Can imagine James would be a fun guy to have a conversation with.

That's the moment I fell in love with spuffy. It was so tender 😢

Marketa hated it while Rana ate it up. Spike is still toxic, but love-struck bad boys have a wide appeal.

The only reason he changed and showed more sympathy could be the side effects of the initiatives chip. Remember that vampires are demons without souls so all affection they show is twisted and never true but somehow Spike without a soul managed to somehow get some humanity back so I think not killing so many humans due to the chip somehow triggered something which never happened to any normal vampire without a soul...

In episode 3x4 - Chris also commented that Spike seems to be writing poetry for her right before Spike fell into an open grave! Can’t wait to see the reaction.

Or did it become his thing because of that guy?

That's how it works. First they wanted him only as a villain, to be there for a while. Then they came up with other story. And now as the scene with that guy techically happened before everything so that's where it all started and was the original reason.

Could very well be what started it. And then serial killers like to have a signature so there's that...

Which is eluded to in the episode "The Wish" where we have a version of Buffy without "ties to the world" and the Master rather easily kills her.

That insult would be more effective if William wasn't played by the beautiful James Marsters...

@@bernardsoul5186 Who a person is isn't limited to what they look like though.

@bernardsoul5186 You think he's beautiful?

Their Buffy reactions are really entertaining. You can tell they're having a lot of fun with the series.

Same

@@chaost4544 Too much fun to the point that they often laughed at dramatic moments.

And he gets cucked big time by Drusilla . He was an incel when he was turned and rejection is what he carries with him as a vampire. He knows Buffy will reject him.

@@gungho1284 just being rejected by one or two women just doesn't make you an incel. That would make every single, hetero dude an incel, and that's really not how that word is supposed to be used. Spike had a lover for over a century and literally has a side chick (Harmony) while pining after Buffy.

wait how is the guy who is having regular sex "involuntarily celibate"

@@Cardboardbocs “incel” is more than it’s literal definition, it’s about your attitude to women. Whether you see them as people in their own right or you see them as sexual objects who exist only for your gratification. An “incel” rages against women because he believes that he’s entitled to love from them because, after all, they exist for his sexual gratification and they’re failing at that duty. Andrew Tate was an “incel” in common usage even though by all accounts he was extremely sexually active, because he wasn’t actually connecting with any of the women he was abusing, he just had a lot of human fleshlights on hand. A man who is not an “incel” recognises that every woman can make decisions about who she forms relationships with, that it’s perfectly possible that no woman would ever fall in love with them, and that if that’s happening it’s because that man has not worked on himself and made himself an appealing person to spend time with. They are accusing Spike of being an incel because of the way he reacted to Buffy’s rejection (and to Dru’s in Lovers Walk): by blaming them, not himself, and by reacting to it with angry vengeance instead of self-reflection. It’s not their duty to please him, they’re free to choose not to be in a relationship with him, but he’s not accepting that and instead considers it their fault somehow.

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This 100%

"...and I'm all out of violence"

YES thats why I always pick spike

Angel isn't forced to be good either. Angelus, on the other hand...

@@jp3813 Kinda true. He is forced to actual feel empathy and bad about killing.

@@fipse If he was a serial killer before turning into a vampire, I doubt that the curse would do much for his conscience.

Marsden is human friend #1 in Sonic.

You know him as Cyclops, I know him as Corny Collins, we are not the same

I've seen so many people say it's a terrible inaccurate accent, and I've seen just as many people say it's a perfect accent lol

"All slime and antlers, they're disgusting" Gotta love the continuity, however small.

This show has always been big on continuity. One of the earliest examples is back in season 2 when Jenny Calendar was buying the Orb of Thessala in the magic shop. The shopkeeper was surprised Miss Calendar actually knew what it was used for (Spirit Vault of the Undead), since "all these New Age magic users use them as paperweights." Fast forward to the first part of that season's finale - Becoming Part 1 - and Willow telling the group that, according to what Miss Calendar left behind, they needed something called an Orb of Thessala to do the curse. To which Giles responded "Oh! I have one. I've...been using it as a paperweight..." @@HighQueenChelsea

Perfectly said. I'm sure an incel would've revelled in the woman's misery, then taken advantage of her vulnerability. Spike's impulse when seeing Buffy upset, was to ask what's wrong, then provide comfort.

I mean he was trying, there’s only so much he could do. That he is probably the one decent thing in that garbage movie.

He redeemed himself with Zamasu though

Marsters was the only reason Piccolo was green in that movie lmao. He's a legit Dragon Ball fan and fought for many things on that movie to be changed but could only get Piccolo's colour changed.

NO HE WAS PICCOLO?!(!?? IHMHUHHHHHHHHRJDJNFNFOK

No wrong? boy sometimes I see read when someone says that phrase.

I think I know which is the other one. I can't wait either

I can't wait for them to see episode 14.

Not the this season finally as well??

@@antra21 no but that's a very close 4

The one with no music or the one with all the music?

Probably even they are tainted. It's like the Pureblood thing in Harry Potter. If you go back far enough, they all have muggle ancestors, they're all just quibbling on who goes back the furthest.

I’m right there with you 👀 I don’t see a lot of them forgiving him and some of them might even grow to hate him but I adore his relationship with buffy and the incredible character arc he has.

I think Spidey and Rana are going to end up shipping it if they don't already.

Pat never fails to prove he’s a disturbed weirdo. They never call him out on the stupid things he says.

And the same scene is used at some point around this time in Angel, from the opposite viewpoint...

@@ernesthakey3396oh really? I haven't watched Angel so I missed that haha

I ship them too and I can definitely understand why some people don’t (although I think they’re wrong) because their relationship is very… complex. but at the end of the day I think it’s very real and beautiful.