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   James Marsters Explains Spike's Last Words In Buffy The Vampire Slayer   
      
   For Buffy the Vampire Slayer star James Marsters was a guest at Denver Comic   
   Con over the weekend and he answered a fan’s burning questions about   
   Spike’s   
   farewell in the show’s finale.   
      
   Spike sacrificed himself to close the Hellmouth in “Chosen,” the finale   
   episode. Before she left him, Buffy told Spike that she loved him. Spike   
   responded by saying that wasn’t true but thanked her for saying it anyway.   
   But did Spike really believe that, or was he just trying to get Buffy out of   
   harm’s way?   
      
   "I don't think, at the point that that scene happens in their story that he’s   
   ready for her yet,” Marsters said. “He gets a soul and starts a journey and   
   at the end of it, after he figures out how to exist in this world with a   
   soul and be a good person, I think he does deserve her. But at that point,   
   he didn’t. He didn’t know enough and what he was saying was, ‘I’m   
   beneath   
   you. You can’t really love me. You’re way better than I am right now. Give   
   me some time to work on myself. Oh god, I’m on fire, too late.’ But I think   
   that’s what redeemed Spike was that he knew that he wasn’t quite ready yet   
   or good enough yet, but he was trying.”   
      
   Spike did go up in flames in “Chosen,” but it was revealed in the fifth   
   season of spinoff Angel that his essence was preserved in the enchanted   
   amulet he was wearing at the time. Thanks to that, Spike was able to return.   
   Spike and Buffy’s stories have continued in the Dark Horse comic book   
   series, which is currently in Buffy’s eleventh season. It seems that Spike   
   has become worthy of Buffy finally since the two are now in a relationship   
   together.   
      
   Buffy the Vampire Slayer is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2017. The   
   cast and creator Joss Whedon were reunited to mark the occasion. 16 Photos   
   from the event can be seen in the gallery below.   
      
       [click the link, obviously. Of course, Cordy's pic is the sexiest! Close   
   up of MT is mesmerizing!]   
   David   
      
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