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.

Am I the only one who's being totally useless at work today? No? Good.

Teppy, I don't think they did the deed.

I realize I felt a bit cheated last night because I expected Buffy to die a heroine's death, and she didn't. But then overnight I remembered that, while Slayers die all the time in battle, that's not true anymore. SHE CHANGED THE RULES. It's so cool and not an asspull like I've always thought the end of THE GIFT was.

I do hope that all the protos are nice moral girls and not, like, girl gang members or anything, because a wave of super-powered female criminals aka Gwen the Electrogirl would be an unwelcome side effect. You'd better track them down, Willow and Giles.

And at least the latter have jobs now. I guess the logistics of the Bus of Empowered Wimminfolk--where they live, how they eat, etc. will be answered the same way as how Buffy the fast food worker got thousand dollar outfits every week (aka the Peg Bundy Mystery)--not at all. Oh well.

I also somewhat resent that Wood made it. I've fanwanked that Buffy's wound was healed when she held hands with Spike, who was Sunshine and healing guy, but Robin is just human and I think his story's done. But it was cool the way he and Giles fought together, and the way he took down Faith a peg.

I'd like to have Andrew's luck. It was also sweet what he said to Xander, although by being such a fierce fighter Anya probably did save his whiny butt. And I rewatched and she was not totally bisected, if that's any consolation--the cut stopped above her left hip.

I know there were budget considerations, but how cool would it have been to see an Saudi or Congolese girl get the power and overcome some really serious repression? Yeah!

More later.

how cool would it have been to see an Saudi or Congolese girl get the power and overcome some really serious repression? Yeah!

"Genital mutilation, my ASS!!!!"

"Burqua? I'll show you what I think of your burqua...."