On the whole, I'm sorry a lot of what was cut was cut. There was some good stuff in there. Not earth shattering, but good. And Wheee!

On the whole, I'm sorry a lot of what was cut was cut. There was some good stuff in there.

Gotta trust Joss on the pacing, and we do have the script.

Heh. We could do a deathmatch of things cut from script before they aired.

Okay:

t inserts most of "corrupt" script from Angel.

I win!

Oh wait. Not Buffy. Damn.

ANYA: Oh, sure y'are. You're as stable as the molecules in Mister Fantastic's uniform, am I right?

XANDER: Oh, you just couldn't have picked a worse example.

Oh, damn! I love that. I wish it had stayed. I wanted more Xander and Anya interaction.

I wish that had stayed as well, even if it is a really geeky reference it's a great insight into their relationship.

I'm more in love with the cut stuff from Home, but yeah, that was a great line.

Wow. It's over.

Would my suspicion that only Joss was giving Dawn lines like that, and that later get cut? Cause if not, she not only didn't get any decent storylines, but cheated out of being a cool side-line commentator. Damn - I know MT could deliver those kind of lines no problem.

I was discussing the finale with a friend after it aired, and we both thought that there was stuff cut from the episode, and it needed 90 minutes. Seeing these cut lines really drives it home.

I went back and read the end of the last thread. Don't really feel the need to go back and comment on the AR again, though I'll note I'm in the camp of people that felt like Spike's actions were totally in character and they did a very good job of shooting it so it couldn't be seen as romantic (ala Luke and Laura and "Rise"), but brutal and a violation.

I'm starting to think of S7 as similar to S4. Because there were serious problems with the arc, but really a number of excellent eps separate from that arc. Conversations with Dead People, Selfless, and Storyteller were all great great episodes. Up to the highest standards of anything in the series. Witty and dark and smart. Throw in the arc episodes that worked (for me) and you get Lessons, Same Time, Dirty Girls, End of Days and Chosen. It's hard for me to see the huge decline people were talking about because...look at the quality there. It's no more uneven or incomprehensible than S4 was. I think S6 actually had a great arc, with the only end-of-season run comparable to S2 where it built and built and built right to the end. I always felt like S3 crapped out in Graduation Day. Big snake. Whoop de doo.

warning, gripe ahead.

If they hadn't wasted so much of the previous damn episode with talky meat... they could have put lots of stuff in there.

but i did love the finale. it really made me so happy the unhappy thoughts just floated away... okay, they're still floating around my head but i'm trying to ignore them.

swats away botox eye

which reminds me, i have a wank.

lots of other demony/hellmouthy things were acting up b/c of the FE, right (all that stuff at the school, whatever drove everyone out of the dale). so that poltergeist/demon/whatev in the summers casa was NOT the FE, it was just a FE associate (do you get dental w/ that?). does that explain what the eff joyce was talking about? nope. "You know I do all this planning. I'm in charge here, even though I am really not at my best- " t /grad day II

eta

see, i thought the big snake was cool but i had just started watching and hadn't seen reptile boy or the other snake demon or the one glory raised -- no, shit, that came LATER.

plus the whole class being armed gave me quite the thrill.

oh, and daniel c? those eliza dushku caps got DOMM -- drool on my monitor. what are the chances her show won't suck?

sigh