As a Spike fan, am I the only one who isn’t surprised that we wouldn’t actually see his real father? I know it sounds a bit cynical, but I kinda knew this would be a fake out, and I was mostly anticipating how the writers would handle Spike himself, his relationships with the others, and how he’d handle the reveal that Sludge was faking. And I think they did well on that part.
Edit: I also love the way Sludge was handled. A lot of people were mad because he was an irredeemable POS, but he treated exactly that way, and that’s he was handle so well. He didn’t need to be complex, he didn’t need to have a completely logical reason to do what he did. He’s just a terrible “person” and that’s all.