It would have come across as cheesy, I think, jimi. It's what the Superbowl winners are supposed to say in the post-game interview.
At the very least, it would have broken the mood I took away.
Can't you ever get your mind out of the hellmouth?
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§ ita § - Aug 14, 2003 6:46:19 am PDT #6310 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Angus G - Aug 14, 2003 6:48:05 am PDT #6311 of 9843
Roguish Laird
It would have been utterly, utterly calamitous. It would have made a mockery of all 7 seasons of Buffy, even the bad ones. It's really impossible to exaggerate how shit it would have been.
Katie M - Aug 14, 2003 6:48:32 am PDT #6312 of 9843
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Now if she'd said she was going to open an office supply warehouse with Giles in Vegas...
(No, actually I think the ending worked perfectly. But an office supply shoutout would've made me laugh.)
Jim - Aug 14, 2003 7:20:31 am PDT #6313 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
It's what the Superbowl winners are supposed to say in the post-game interview.
Is that where it comes from?
DavidS - Aug 14, 2003 7:23:01 am PDT #6314 of 9843
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Is that where it comes from?
Yeah, it was a very clever Disney promotion. They'd pay huge dollars to the opposing quarterbacks and whoever won just had to remember to say their line into the camara while they were out celebrating on the field. Actually it wasn't just quarterbacks - it was other champions in other sports as well.
evil jimi - Aug 14, 2003 8:52:50 am PDT #6315 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Hmmm. I did not know that.
Thank fuck it wasn't said, then.
Madrigal Costello - Aug 14, 2003 11:08:53 am PDT #6316 of 9843
It's a remora, dimwit.
Eh, I think it would have fit with the amount of thought they put into it. Considering what they'd been saying all season about evil, what Buffy did would just make evil more powerful, completely fuck over the world, and doom a whole bunch more girls. But she got out okay, as did her friends, so it's all hunky-dory and they should go to Disneyland and throw churros off the ferris wheel.
§ ita § - Aug 14, 2003 11:18:44 am PDT #6317 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
what Buffy did would just make evil more powerful, completely fuck over the world
Why?
she got out okay, as did her friends
Not all of her friends. And they lost a whole town. I'm scared by the acceptable casualties in your world.
Madrigal Costello - Aug 14, 2003 11:21:57 am PDT #6318 of 9843
It's a remora, dimwit.
Okay, they established that the reason FE was so much more powerful was that Buffy's rebirth - the whole two slayers thing, upset the balance. So what does Buffy do? She upsets it even further by calling all the potentials to be slayers. In Buffy's defense, Giles and Anya were keeping some major secrets to her, but as Buffy is not God, her not knowing something to be true doesn't make it untrue. And most of Buffy's friends got out okay. She allows for the loss or death of her friends' SO's.
§ ita § - Aug 14, 2003 11:26:21 am PDT #6319 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
She upsets it even further by calling all the potentials to be slayers.
But we don't know it upsets the balance. It's not at all implied by the text that it's an inevitable result. Who says calling a potential is the same as bringing a slayer back to life twice? Joss didn't, and I'm willing to take his absence of word for it.
She allows for the loss or death of her friends' SO's.
Huh? Has she been shown to be insensitive to the deaths of Scoobs? She fought for Oz, fought for Tara -- I don't get your POV.