The main Buffy cast really is excellent, isn't it? They are none of them perfect, but that makes them much more interesting and believable I think. I can definitely see why you would pick Xander as your favourite, because in some ways I think he is the best of them all. He doesn't have any superpowers/magic/loads-of-book-learning, but is just an ordinary guy yet he still fights evil to the best of his abilities and if that means he has to pick up doughnuts he will do that too. If I had to pick just one of them as a favourite though, I would have to go with early-series Willow -- the geeky, socially awkward girl who loves learning. She is portrayed with such love and respect and being a (now grown-up) geeky, socially awkward girl I can't help but love that.
I haven't seen enough of season 7 to tell what I think of Spike with a soul. The idea seems very interesting to me too, and I don't think it would necessarily have to take away from him choosing to do good as a soulless vampire; he choose to get his soul back after all. However, as I said, I haven't seen what they did with it, so I can't comment on that. It may have just been in Angel, but there they certainly add in shades of grey, showing that just because someone is a demon doesn't mean they are evil and that some vampires where evil even before becoming vampires, indeed actively choosing to become vampires to be able to do more killing.
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Date: 2010-10-06 07:43 pm (UTC)I haven't seen enough of season 7 to tell what I think of Spike with a soul. The idea seems very interesting to me too, and I don't think it would necessarily have to take away from him choosing to do good as a soulless vampire; he choose to get his soul back after all. However, as I said, I haven't seen what they did with it, so I can't comment on that. It may have just been in Angel, but there they certainly add in shades of grey, showing that just because someone is a demon doesn't mean they are evil and that some vampires where evil even before becoming vampires, indeed actively choosing to become vampires to be able to do more killing.