I think it's as simple as this: All of Spike is in love with Buffy, not just pieces of him. It may be a scary obsessive demon love, but the demonic parts of him, too, see her as Buffy, not food.
The thing there is I think Angel is in love with all of Buffy, too, and he still sees her as food. Though as you say, Angel has the alcoholism thing.
That aside, Spike's just less vampy than your average vampire.
Yeah, interesting! That's something you worked with in ARITS, and I very much appreciated it as I hadn't really noticed it before.
The most sense I've ever seen made of that episode is Peasant's essay comparing Spike's First-controlled killings to the spree killing that many predator species exhibit when presented with a superabundance of prey.
Oh, wow, what an interesting theory. Peasant, she writes good essays. I'll have to dig that one up.
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The thing there is I think Angel is in love with all of Buffy, too, and he still sees her as food. Though as you say, Angel has the alcoholism thing.
That aside, Spike's just less vampy than your average vampire.
Yeah, interesting! That's something you worked with in ARITS, and I very much appreciated it as I hadn't really noticed it before.
The most sense I've ever seen made of that episode is Peasant's essay comparing Spike's First-controlled killings to the spree killing that many predator species exhibit when presented with a superabundance of prey.
Oh, wow, what an interesting theory. Peasant, she writes good essays. I'll have to dig that one up.