If that is me, I don't want them back. I'd much rather they be passed on to other needy souls.

Jon, you're a sweetheart!

I meant Fiona, she who is sweet enough to tell me that I'm actually doing her a favor by keeping the tapes at my place until they move. But, like I already told her, at least half a dozen people are going to watch it here, so you're definitely spearing the love.

See, by the time we hit The Scene I was ready to kick Buffy over a cliff, so I really had very little sympathy for her. And that's speaking as someone who will happily argue with people who talk about S4 Buffy as self-centered.

I did not have the Authorially Approved Reaction to a lot of S7, I don't think.

And the less said about the farce that is Giles in a turtleneck the better.

Hee! I kind of liked it.

Katie M., you're right, bad choice of words. I just meant it as a short hand for her essentially being the catalyst for Buffy deciding to stop trying to convince them that she was right. That sentence is so clumsy, but I can't be bothered trying to fix it.

Emlah, re tonight: just as we thought!!! Very happy for Reggie, but how gorgeous was Chrissie?

Yep, no surprises, but exciting all the same! The final three are such gorgeous people. There's something about the friendship between Chrissie and Dan in particular that just does me in - it's lovely to see people connect like that. There was a moment during all the madness on stage where they were looking at each other and I was like: "I know you're just friends, but I wish you'd get married and come be my neighbours." It surprises me how emotional I got over the show this year. The last couple of seasons I've watched for shallow, voyeuristic entertainment, but this time I got really emotionally involved.

I did not have the Authorially Approved Reaction to a lot of S7, I don't think.

Where does it stand for you in comparison to other seasons? Up until recently, I thought it was the best season since Season 3. Now I'm witholding judgement until the final.

Oh, okay, Emlah. Fair enough. I won't argue that the scene was well-done, mind you. They could've built up to it throughout the second half of the season, and instead left me spending something like eight episodes yelling at the characters "she's acting like a nutcase! Someone talk to her! Aren't you supposed to be her friends? Mindless backup when she's not being very bright isn't friendship!" So by the time they got to Empty Places, I was thinking "better late than never."

Okay, I'll give my impression of S7. No specific spoilers for anything past Empty Places, but obviously my final opinion depends on everything up to the finale:

I think it's the most disappointing of the seven seasons for me, because it could've been brilliant - it started wonderfully, and I can see how it could've been marvelous hovering just out of reach, but they didn't quite get ahold of it. I'd put S4 ahead of S7, but then in retrospect I'm very fond of S4, because it's still fun. S5 and S6... I dunno. S6 I have a lot of respect for but don't really like; S7 I probably like better but have less respect for.

Agreed with Katie. I was one of the ones arguing sort of for the upshot of Empty Places -- turns out I pretty much predicted [spoiler this] and [spoiler that], by metaphor -- but I didn't like the execution either. And I really didn't like [yet another spoiler]. Throughout, I could see the idea, but I had to hunt for it through the malapropisms of implementation.

The last couple of seasons I've watched for shallow, voyeuristic entertainment, but this time I got really emotionally involved.

I actually got emotionally involved with the first one too, but much more this time round.

That said, there were moments in the past seasons that got me. Peter's little brother running into the house to greet him last year? Colour me weepy, and I didn't like Peter at all.

Oh God yeah, me too. I'd forgotten about that! I'm such a BB crybaby though...I still tear up every damn time they show that tape where Reggie says "I don't want...to go back...to my life!"