It was really great they found a necrotempered cafe.

Speaking of....mmm, coffee.

It was really great they found a necrotempered cafe.

But they *sputter*...were they sitting in the window....*hey*.

That's a very good point, ita, and it makes my brain hurt. Guess they got kind of loose on that whole sunlight thing toward the end.

I'm still inarticulate, mostly. With tears, and with recognition of who these characters are, and the fitting end to this show. And yes, with white-hot anger at the temerity of the WB network to intrude on a wordless afterglow cast by ME with a self-aggrandizing and wholly false attempt at "label loyalty." Fuck that.

Every note was character-perfect, and there were many moments of surprise followed by a nod recognising the inevitability of that moment's choice for that character. It was masterful, and very possibly the high point of the entire series. It was a much more satisfying finale than Buffy's was.

I hated sobbing alone in front of my tv, unable to share the last watch-n-post with Buffistas. If Joss and Tim come up with another show, that'll be great. But I need a little mourning period, I think, before giving my devotion elsewhere.

It was really great they found a necrotempered cafe.

Angel was coming down a set of stairs when he went in, so maybe it was on a basement level.

(See Jess' hands. See Jess' hands wave.)

Angel was coming down a set of stairs when he went in

So you're saying he was coming down from street level, where the sun lives?

So you're saying he was coming down from street level, where the sun lives?

Maybe he finally took Cordy's S1 advice and bought an umbrella. Which he then, um, lost, just moments before entering the scene.

Or, all he could find was a parasol. Didn't want to look like a girl in front of Connor. Threw it in a gutter before entering.....um. Yeah.

Heh.

Everything seemed very sunny there for a while, which I didn't mostly mind since ... PAIN.

Hey, ho, it's the devil here. Back from the dead, and is that not so appropriate for this time and place in the Jossverse? No worries. Won't be posting again and dont' want to cause any trouble at all, but I hope that some small sliver of kindness can be granted to allow me a brief bit of communal grief.

I'm just so very, very sad, peeps. And very, very confused that it's a television show that is making me feel that way. Life is tough, but it's even tougher when a tv show can bring you to your knees in sadness.

A couple o' things and then I'll whisk away.

I did think (through my tears, that is) that it was entirely approriate that Wesley died because he overestimated his abilities. So he came in, and so he goes out. A better, stronger, deeper man, but still tragically tied to the man he was when first we met.

And if anyone must die, it must, of course, be Wes. If not him, who? And if not now, when? A sacrifice for atonement and the greater good. Were it anyone else, it would have been cheap and cheating. The power just would not have been there for me. Only by killing Wes does the sacrifice truly feel like a sacrifice.

Jeez, I'm going to cry again.

In the end, they all die. Or they all live. Or any combo in between. In the end, life just goes on, day after day, step after step, and there aren't any cameras around to record it all for posterity. That's the message I take. Not certain that was the message intended, but it's what hit me. Anything less, any type of wrap-it-all-up and the world will be peachy type of angle . . .well, it would have made me hurl.

Life just continues, and the dude simply abides. But, alas, I will not. Just needed to share for a moment, and now I slip back under the rock from which I crawled.