The scene in the high school, which starts with the Slayer and her herd and then thins down to just the core four, then Buffy, Willow and Xander walking down the hallway, with Willow peeling off, then Xander, leaving Buffy alone for a moment--that was nice.
The core four departed in reverse order of their introduction in WTTH: Buffy waking up from her slayer dreams, Xander on his skateboard running into Willow, and Giles in the library.
Yeah, I know it's utterly meaningless, and may not have been done on purpose, but with Joss you can never tell.
3, 2, 4, 1, 5, 6, 7. Six beating seven basically on the strength of OMWF.
Connie, as a woman who has never felt disempowered either, I though the premise lovely because, dammit, not all women are as pigheadedlucky as I've been, and it's just one of those moments that will always get me, no specific gender required, where from either inside or symbolically from outside, one finds the strength to do what one couldn't before.
It's funny - I never had any trouble identifying with and claiming the power of Slayerhood when it was just Buffy, or when it was Buffy and Faith. The montage of the Chosen Few made me think "I'm not one of those girls," though. Which was obviously not their intent.
That's interesting billytea. I hadn't thought of it like that.
yeah, Buffy was using Spike in S6
Yeah, and vice versa. And on the catwalk at the Bronze, more vice than versa.
Hmm. Katie, I never felt it was for me to claim any of the slayerhood. It was (and still is) other.
Now it's just other to fewer, and more power to them.
So to speak.
May I tag? Or would it be too spoilery?
Sadly, I fear it would be too spoilery, else I'd say go for it with glee and gusto.
But I'm a bad judge of what's spoilery, because, well... spoiler ho.
I figured all girls are Slayers. I asked my daughter (who has a mild speech problem) who she was going to Slay. She said "Taylor. He's a really mean kid, and he keeps saying 'Say owange. Say fouw.'"
There's a nice, brief little eulogy to Buffy in the NY Times today.
At the very end, I really expected a human Spike to crawl out of the pit of Sunnydale.
And, knowing this board, I bet a naked crawling human Spike would have been preferred.
Of course, my tastes run toward a naked Anya, but the narrative would suffer.
