Actually I think season 7 gave Spike more of a storyline than most other seasons did. The basement Spike was interesting to me. The torturing by The First was I agree pointless though. It was the boring part of BOTN to me, even made me dislike Dru as she was written :/ And it wasn't even bad torture, it was just sticking his head in water, and the ubervamp knocking him around a few times
And while I did like his role alongside Buffy in Potential, I do think souled Spike began to feel a bit too subdued. Then Get It Done gives him a place again, and there's the building up of his past storyline with Wood. LMPTM is a fantastic look at not only Spike's past, but also sees him being all bad-ass with Wood and establishing souled Spike as very different from Angel.
I agree that Dawn got neglected a bit. Early season 7 had quite a bit of her, but then as The First Evil plot becomes stronger, plot seems to take priority over characterisation work. I thought she was cute with Andrew though, I could have shipped them *ducks from the wrath of sum1_different *
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Date: 2006-01-09 03:22 pm (UTC)And while I did like his role alongside Buffy in Potential, I do think souled Spike began to feel a bit too subdued. Then Get It Done gives him a place again, and there's the building up of his past storyline with Wood. LMPTM is a fantastic look at not only Spike's past, but also sees him being all bad-ass with Wood and establishing souled Spike as very different from Angel.
I agree that Dawn got neglected a bit. Early season 7 had quite a bit of her, but then as The First Evil plot becomes stronger, plot seems to take priority over characterisation work. I thought she was cute with Andrew though, I could have shipped them *ducks from the wrath of