I'm doing the chatty post first, because the frigging WB harshed my end-of-series mellow, with their little "Your friends, the WB."

They haven't been our (fandom's) friends since the end S5 BtVS. Ptooey.

I delurked on May 20 of last year as everyone was delurking to say good bye to Buffy. That hit me harder because BtVS was my show - but this is incredibly sad. I loved Steph's post about the Jossverse being "mine mine mine." Exactly.

tina, that's right! I remember. And then you basically had to go through the hellmouth (or a little misunderstanding with the Police) to watch, didn't you? I'm so glad you stayed around!

You know what? I am at Victor's Angel party right now, AIFG.

Wha??? Lee, are you going to be in town for a few days? I didn't get home from my daughter's dance dress rehearsal, until 8:30pm. Feh. Certain elements of the rehearsal completely harshed my mellow. I'm going to have to watch again.

I am very much on the verge of tears, though. Reading through everyone's favorite Angel memories was wonderful, because what all y'all said. But also, because it reminded me of why and how I fell for the Buffistas, so very fast. That was a great prequel to sending off the show in style.

Thanks to all of you, for making the 'verse even more wonderful.

Next up, a more topicy kind of meara.

Kristin T - I meant at the end.

Oh, gotcha quester. Thanks for clarification.

Pretty much broken here too.

And sappy, but I need to say this:

The Buffyverse has been so important to me for the last eight years. I was 21 when Buffy premiered. God, the things I've been through since then. I'm not the person I was then, but I think part of why I got so attached to these characters. We grew together. Love and breakups. Depression. Isolation. Redemption and joy. Silliness.

This world is not my world, and as wonderful as it's been, it hasn't been my major focus by a long shot. It has not been obsession, except in the most benign way.

But it has been a constant for me. Every week, one--then two, then one once more--escape that I could look forward to. Something I knew I would enjoy, even at its worst, more than anything else on tv.

Conversations about Angel and Buffy with friends and even strangers have been some of my most enjoyable. In fact, a common love of Buffy has made me more than one new friend.

Here, for example.

I don't usually like to wax rhapsodic like this about something so seemingly trivial. It makes me feel vulnerable and young. I had to say it though.

Thank you Joss for the vision, and Joss' cohorts for the execution (pun...why not...intended).

Next time you "get to work", I'll be there.

I'm just broken. I have stuff I want to say, but -- I'm just broken right now.

Dude.

What no one mentioned was the moment Angel said, "Can you figure out the one word in there you shouldn't have said?"

And my brain quickly went through the sentence, and then I shouted, "OH MY FUCKING GOD!"

I like it when shows make me shout, "OH MY FUCKING GOD!"

Okay, if I had to only watch two eps this semester, I guess this one should have been one of the two.

Two things which should be memes - 1) what you you miss about being human, and 2) what would you spend your last day doing?

Loved both Spike and Gunn. Loved that Wes died, in the arms of a woman he asked to lie for him. For a man who spent his life attempting to meet the strictures of others, that he could go to his end under his own rules, that rocked.

Spike and the poetry, though. *g*

Enough loose ends to keep the fic writers busy for, oh, the next fifty years, and that's the important part.

"Me. I'd like to take out the dragon."

Worse ways to go.

- hg

Me neither, quester. It makes me wonder just what Joss and Co. had in mind for Angel next season. No Wes, no Lorne, no Lindsey, possibly no Gunn. I'm kinda glad it ended!

It makes me wonder just what Joss and Co. had in mind for Angel next season. No Wes, no Lorne, no Lindsey, possibly no Gunn. I'm kinda glad it ended!

Errrr... I kinda think that if the series weren't ending, this season would've ended differently.

Was killing Lindsey Lorne's task or was that part freelancing? Did "I've heard you sing" mean "You may think you've changed, and Angel may believe you've changed, but I've seen your future - and I can't let that happen"? Maybe he didn't want to go back not because of what Angel asked him to do but because of what he'd become in his time with the MoG. Not sure I buy my own argument, but I do think it was ambiguous.

Fanfuckingtastic ending for this show. Gah. I'm just...I am without words.

And those monsters coming at them were all shadowy and loud and totally creeepy!

I think the entire human portion of the MoG are goners. Doyle, Cordelia, Wesley, Fred, Gunn in about 10 minutes.

I flashed back to the Buffy episode and Giles telling Buffy that you can always tell the good guys by the white hats, the bad guys wear black and nobody ever dies.

GILES
Yes. It's terribly simple.
The good-guys are stalwart and true.
The bad-guys are easily distinguished
by their pointy horns or black hats and
we always defeat them and save the day.
Nobody ever dies;and everybody lives
happily ever after.