The more I watch (or think about) the finale, the more amazed I am at how much Joss pulled together at the end.
Yep. So many nuances, and grace notes and callbacks and allusions and all in character and dramatically rich and emotional.
For some reason, one of the things that moves me the most was how much Vi changed upon getting her Slayer power. She sold me on both mousy-in-the-background and the kick-ass Nurse!Vi take-charge attitude.
Concur. It was genuinely thrilling. I guess we should learn the actress' name.
Wrod, sj. Also, in a way, the cuddles-only Spike and Buffy scenes are like a statement to the 'shippers that there's much more to intimacy than the sex. I felt that Buffy and Spike were closer to each other during their not-sex scenes than in anything during S6.
That said, I like to think that they went for the tender, Sarah-MacLachlan sex before cutting to the schoolbus scene.
"As can the entire series. How else to explain that BTVS was a favorite of The Nation AND The National Review; The American Prospect AND The Weekly Standard."
Everybody walks away happy, I suppose. I've been tinkering with the idea of Buffy as television's only libertarian heroine, but it requires an involved explanation and I just don't have the time to put pen to paper on that. But I'm thinking about it.
Heh. Awhile back, I interviewed David Nolan, who founded the Libertarian Party. He's a very conservative politics and economic wonk. And a rabid Buffy fan.
I also have it on good authority that there's a whole mess of Buffy fans in the State Department. In fact, many of them (including a friend of mine and Thessaly's) went en masse to see James Marsters play outside D.C.
Maybe Joss should run for president...
Maybe Joss should run for president...
The theory of maximum pain? Works well cinematically. In real life? Not so good...
Ah, Hell. Who am I kidding. I'd vote for him.
I'd move to Chicago and vote for him twice.
Buffy re-enters the basement and they face each other across the room. We flash to the next shot, and it's morning, and we're looking at the school bus. The evil genius found a way to have his cake and eat it, too.
You know when I first watched this scene it seemed clear to me that that was Buffy coming down to get Spike right before they left for the school. I'll have to watch it again, but weren't the lighting and Buffy's clothes implying that it was the morning of the big day? It seemed like the "meaningful glance before we go into battle" shot.
Huh. It seemed like night to me.
But now I'm wondering, how did Spike get to the school? Was he on the bus, covered in blankets (or tucked in someone's backpack - he's quite compact, you know.) Or did he do the sewer tunnel thing and just popped up in the hallway? I can't really remember.
