The battle scene was a little stolen from Helm's Deep. Just a little.

Ha! Yes.

At the commercial break right before the fight started, I looked at Mom and said "Is that IT, Sauron? Is that the best you can DO?"

The battle scene was a little stolen from Helm's Deep. Just a little.

That was the point where I turned to Paul and cheerfully said "Mr. Whedon, Mr. Jackson would like his royalty check." He giggled. Then Willow went all white, and he laughed harder.

When Buffy had her brilliant idea immediately the FE taunted her that she would have to die for further slayers to be called, I was really scared they were going to try that whole "let's kill and revive Buffy and Faith again and again until we have a ton of slayers called,"

Yeah, I was too. Much more pleased with the GirlPower!Spell.

My favorite question from my Mom last night: "Why do you keep calling Angel 'hairloaf'?"

My favorite question from my Mom last night: "Why do you keep calling Angel 'hairloaf'?"

Hee!

Also, when Spike was going all disco inferno, did any one else think that the way it was lit, with his forehead and hair kinda blending, it made him look like he had Dawsonhead?

(Were we supposed to think they had The Sex?)

They had sex in the scene where she came downstairs and they stared at each other as there was a slow fade to black.

Hey! This is my fanwank, and it makes me happy and keeps me from saying the U-word.

The funny thing is that I spent all day yesterday talking myself into liking the ep (which I saw Monday) by telling myself that the non-crazed, non-shipper, non-Internet fans would love it and I should just accept it on those terms, and then right after the ep, my non-shipper, non-Internet fan sister IMed me to tell me she hated the episode. If you want to know what she said, you can check my LJ at ww1614.

I *heart* the ep. I super *heart* the Buffistas. You have all made my final episodes of Buffy the best they could have been. :-)

Cereal:

Also, when Spike was going all disco inferno, did any one else think that the way it was lit, with his forehead and hair kinda blending, it made him look like he had Dawsonhead?

Yes! That was some nasty big forehead thing going.

I didn't notice the Dawsonshead, but I did think that he was showing every year of his real age, and that his cheekbones have finally given in to the aging process.

t /shallow

There's more to say on the subject, but I really need to get some work done today. Do these ideas seem to have any merit?

I think they have real merit, Anne. I have been trying to pull together an analysis of the existential crisis as a recurring theme in the show, but I decided to wait and see how it all played out in the end before I really thought it out. One of the main issues that I keep coming across is how vampires feel a connection to something bigger than themselves (re: Jesse in "The Harvest" and Holden in "Conversations With Dead People"). Add that the Bringers were all connected through the First as some kind of hive mind, and I was ready to run with the idea that this "connectedness" was a hallmark of evil.

Then I remembered that Willow felt a connection to everything, due to the dose of "good magic" that the Coven gave her through Giles, and now the events in "Chosen", with all the new Slayers being connected, totally undermines that thesis. I'm going to have to process this for a bit longer before I can come up with anything coherent.