Hot Topic: How much are you bothered by continuity errors?

I think the chip worked when Spike did have intention to do harm, and when he did harm by chance. When he didn't want to do arm - like when he is fighting Buffy in Fool for Love, and (maybe) with the shot gun - the chip didn't work.

But of course, there were some errors, like when he escaped the Initiative, and when he pushed Willow. Are there more?
 
Did Spike actually point the shotgun at Buffy though? I don't remember her seeing it/commenting on it if so. I just remember Buffy looking up at him crying, demanding what he wanted and then he asked what was wrong.
Would Buffy had said that if Spike had been pointing a gun at her?

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong..
 
nightshade
nightshade
then we both are remembering it wrong, cos that's how I recall it too
In S6 maybe.

But in S5 he still couldn't, you're all remembering it right. Spike doesn't do anything with the shotgun because his heart's not in it. Plus he couldn't have, according to the established lore of the show.

The chip is at its worst in S7 where apparently Spike can punch people out cold with minimal pain- he winces when he knocks out Xander- and then everyone still reacts like he can't hurt people because of the chip...
 
Well, as time goes by, people get accustomed with their pains, so a punch wouldn't hurt as much as it hurt the first time.
 
I think after a while he figured out how to work around it so that he could fight again. And they never explaned how the chip knew what was human
& what wasn't . Or did I miss that 😕
 
Maybe the chip reacted differently in season 7 as Spike was different in season 7, it could have classed him as being more human, with a soul, and decreased the pain level because of it. I have no idea I'm making this up as I go! 😛
 
As long as there a good reason I willing to go along with it myself 😀
 
nightshade said:
Maybe the chip reacted differently in season 7 as Spike was different in season 7, it could have classed him as being more human, with a soul, and decreased the pain level because of it. I have no idea I'm making this up as I go! 😛
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No possible. The chip was an electronical device, not magical or metaphysical. How it's able to know the difference between human and demon we will never know, because again it's neither magical nor metaphysical. Just one more strike against this plot device.
 
That something I agree with. In Family we saw how they used Spike hitting Tara as a way of showing she was human.
I was so glad Tara was staying I didn't the plot hole there 😎
 
Since the conversation derailed from continuity errors to the chip as a plot device, I say that it was very clever. It helped Spike - a soulless vampire - evolve, and, aside some glitches, it was perfectly credible, in all its phases, including when it stopped working on Buffy, and when it was removed by Riley's people.
 
Still don't know how it worked but it worked pretty good.
 
gite63 said:
Since the conversation derailed from continuity errors to the chip as a plot device, I say that it was very clever. It helped Spike - a soulless vampire - evolve, and, aside some glitches, it was perfectly credible, in all its phases, including when it stopped working on Buffy, and when it was removed by Riley's people.
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It also suggests that vampires have a choice in whether or not to be evil. Spike stopped being evil and even when he had an opportunity to return to his chipless ways he rejected it.

Plus it neutered Spike and I found that a travesty.
 
As a rule continuity errors do not bother me because they are just the nature of television. When it comes to Buffy I think the continuity errors are less important than some shows for two reasons. One because I think it is a show which is leaving things open to viewers to put their spin on, so just because they don't give a reason for something seeming out of place or out of character, doesn't mean there isn't one. Also, in a show based around demons and super natural elements you can't apply real life continuity to it. As a genre show it creates its own reality, and sets its own rules, when it goes outside of those is when there is room for discussion.

And on a basic level if I am engaged with the world of the show and the characters then I tend to not see, or not be bothered by continuity errors. This is very much the case in both Angel and
 
Agree . As long as they don't make it too out there I can put it behind me. I get angry at the writers but I put it behind me.
 
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