With Weetabix for texture.

Yep.

Damn allergies.

disappointed in Xander's reaction to Anya's death.

t nit

His leaving was too perfunctory. Too easy. He swung his head around and followed the others out. No matter the danger, I like to think he would have searched. A little. Giles went back in for Buffy.

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Anya will never have fruit punch again.

Hec! This is beyond mere allergies!

And I was stupid and forgetful to leave Anya out of my heaven scenario. She's there with them. With a big glass of fruit punch.

Hec, you BASTARD. I'm at work, stop it.

Hec! This is beyond mere allergies!

I know. This is why she had to die such a meaty, mortal death though. A very subtle tie in to "The Body" along with all her obvious riffs on mortality. Her death made the hair on my arms stand up.

As somebody noted upthead (Amber, I think), Willow turning white was my crypoint. Her story is the most meaningful to me in the 7 season path, and she's been given as much development as Buffy as a character.

Amanda, had such a great, fierce battle face. That always thrilled me - way more than the other slay-ettes. Except...Vi! Totally. Kicked. Ass. Wow, that was exciting.

Kept thinking of ita when they were tossing the axe around.

Most moved by Xander's hand squeeze to Buffy.

Most laughing, during the beautifully written and played Faith/Wood scene. God, that was good. Okay, petulent Angel was good too. Also Dawn kicking Buffy's shin. "Ow."

Hmmm, I think Jane is actually funnier than Joss on a line by line snappy basis. But nobody writes in-character-funny-with-twists like Joss. Nobody in television. Not many people in the history of writing for actors period.

I thought that the D&D was the funniest.

I thought that the D&D was the funniest.

I wasn't quite able to believe in Giles playing, so it doesn't win my award. I think that probably goes to Buffy fantasizing about Angel and Spike wrestling, covered in oil. Or possibly, for pure "aww, hee" untinged by "okay, and this scene was written to fulfill this purpose," Willow giggling and falling over. That's my Buffy right there.

I will say, the scene with the Core Four worked very well for me as a retread - because I believed that those characters knew what they were doing, and that they were doing it on purpose. I didn't notice Joss pulling the strings there.

Wow.

Haven't been around for a while, but I had to pop in and share the joy and the pain.

As someone else said, I watched the first ep on the first night and the last on the last, and I've never been sadder to see a show go.

I like the way it ended. A lot. I'm glad that Joss was able to turn his full attention to the finale and knock it out of the park.

I think the Hellmouth in Cleveland explains Drew Carey, who should be the first Big Bad on the spin-off.

After I heard of the series ending way back when, I thought it was a good time to go - I even said, "It'll be nice to have my Tuesday nights back." But the minute it ended, I wanted it to go on forever.

So weird to have, for now at least, a Joss Whedon show on only one night this fall. I'd had mixed feelings about 'Angel' this season, but next season I think I'll treasure it. I hope some of the lightness from 'Buffy' makes it over to 'Angel'.

I also hope Angel sends the Scooby gang a blank check in a W&H envelope to a temporary address. They should get a nice motorhome, not like the crappy one with bad suspension at the end of S5, though that did have the cool 'captain's quarters' in the back. Or a Learjet like Bill Bixby had on 'The Magician', not the one from 'Hart to Hart'.

Gotta do the Doyle:

"Is that it? Am I done?"