Today on EQD, there was a discussion question on how I would write Spike in the show. Needless to say, that I have been waiting a long time to drop my two cents on the matter. He's what I posted.
It's really only in episodes where he's the focus where Spike has had most of his problems. In episodes where he's the main support of Twilight, that's probably where he's at his best. The main problems I see in Spike in his episodes are ones a lot of people pointed out: Incompetence, immaturity, clumsy, greedy, etc. It especially bites the show in the flank because we see that Spike isn't any of that in episodes where the spotlight is on him. He's