She expects him to continue trying to be evil incompetently, because that's implicitly allowed as part of their deal That would be my take too. Spike tries to make a deal with Adam to end the world but his incompetence means that the net effect of it is simply to alert the scoobies to the nature of the threat. The most important thing to note about the attempt to get unchipped in OOMM is that it fails. Also, from what the doctor says, it could never have succeeded. Plus he recruits the one vampire Buffy (maybe wrongly as we'll see in S8) takes less seriously as a threat that chipped S5 Spike. Spike alone = incompetent, mixed-motives evil. Spike + Harmony = Wiley E. Coyote levels of incompetent evil. Hilarity ensues.
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Date: 2010-04-05 08:56 am (UTC)That would be my take too. Spike tries to make a deal with Adam to end the world but his incompetence means that the net effect of it is simply to alert the scoobies to the nature of the threat. The most important thing to note about the attempt to get unchipped in OOMM is that it fails. Also, from what the doctor says, it could never have succeeded. Plus he recruits the one vampire Buffy (maybe wrongly as we'll see in S8) takes less seriously as a threat that chipped S5 Spike. Spike alone = incompetent, mixed-motives evil. Spike + Harmony = Wiley E. Coyote levels of incompetent evil. Hilarity ensues.