3. I think Giles feels that a vampire has gone to a real place of darkness, when he's tortured and killed, and you can't take those memories away. Indeed both Angel and Spike are still willing to be fairly ruthless even with souls, because of all they've seen and done. And still with the urges to feed off blood.
In Amends Giles doesn't trust Angel in his apartment, and he had known Angel before the soul and sort of trusted him around the time of Invisible Girl and Prophecy Girl. So Giles failing to embrace Spike makes sense to me. Particularly as Spike wasn't shown to have changed that much after the soul, aside from his brief crazy phase as William. I mean he'd stopped killing obviously, but he wasn't killing with the chip anyway. His core personality was not that different IMO
Spike didn't try to interact with anyone much other than Buffy. In STSP he makes a comment about what's Xander's excuse for how he acts. Plus he's in the basement avoiding the annoying potentials. Buffy was the person that mattered to him
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In Amends Giles doesn't trust Angel in his apartment, and he had known Angel before the soul and sort of trusted him around the time of Invisible Girl and Prophecy Girl. So Giles failing to embrace Spike makes sense to me. Particularly as Spike wasn't shown to have changed that much after the soul, aside from his brief crazy phase as William. I mean he'd stopped killing obviously, but he wasn't killing with the chip anyway. His core personality was not that different IMO
Spike didn't try to interact with anyone much other than Buffy. In STSP he makes a comment about what's Xander's excuse for how he acts. Plus he's in the basement avoiding the annoying potentials. Buffy was the person that mattered to him