it's silly to establish rules for this kind of thing when this is likely to be the last this situation ever occurs

Well, unless we someday get an actual Buffista living in Perth, I guess. It could happen!

(Adelaide, where jimi and Allan live, is half an hour behind the east coast, so not a problem because they'd be watching the episode at the moment of potential spoiliness.)

Ooh, just saw a comment by amych in the Buffy thread re: final scene that I really agreed with. amych, you rule!

(Whitefonted: the comment was

I was talking to Misha after watching, and she said that she really liked it up until the last few minutes, which she found stagey. And I realized that it worked for me in its staginess, because Spike was reminding me of Hamlet. I may have been utterly mindwormed by the Bitches' Shakespeare talk earlier, but there's a way in which he seems to be simultaneously utterly bugfuck nuts, and also aware of his madness, that reminds of Hamlet a great deal. And for that reason, the staginess really worked for me. )

amych, you rule!

You lit theory types always hang together.

Kate! Throw a rock and Min's house and wake her up so she'll IM me.

Well, unless we someday get an actual Buffista living in Perth, I guess. It could happen!

True; I was thinking specifically about commenting on Buffy episodes, because if this is the last year (confirmation anyone?), then there's not much time left for that to happen. Um. Overthinking, as usual. And now I'm off to make dinner, so feel free to talk about "Beneath Me" in living color--I won't be back until after I see it.

Kate! Throw a rock and Min's house and wake her up so she'll IM me.

Or you could ask Angus, since he's at least on the same coast...

[Edit: Ooh yeah, slumbernut!]

comment by amych in the Buffy thread re: final scene that I really agreed with.

Wrod. I (spoiler for comment, and this may be going overboard with the whitefonting) don't know Hamlet as well as I know some other Shakespeare plays, but that's a very apt comparision. The staginess didn't get to me until a third or fourth re-watch, though, due to the completely-wrapped-up-in-Spike thing I have going.

Serial: x-posty in a major way with Kate's post saying she's gone.

Holy shit. This show is so fucking good. I didn't cry, but I can fully understand why you would.

Glad you liked it Kate. And the fact that I am still here to see you post about it reminds me that I should bloody well go to bed now!

I think I did, the first time. There aren't many TV shows that can make me cry. But that final, ultra-dramatic shot? Had me. Totally.

No! Stay and talk to me! ...Or, um, go to bed and sleep like a halfway-normal person. Your choice.