It's true, we got it early, too. Too bad I wasn't a Buffista then - what >a lost taunting opportunity!

I sincerely made tape offers on the boards, with a warm inside glow.

Just be glad you weren't in Montreal, where you didn't get it until >Saturday - and then only if you had cable.

I hear that. The West had to wait for YTV as well. I remember rumours of "mystery edits"

I've watched it on YTV before, I don't think they edited.

The A&E biography of the show gave Columbine about as much time as all of season five. It was too much.

I don't think they edited.

They edited before they fed it. I can't remember all of the edits but I know they cut Xander's lines at the end about blowing up the school being the best day ever.

Goodness? Really?

(I was just thinking generally, didn't realise that it had been done specifically for GD)

Yep. They made Joss rework some stuff. He also had to take out some shots of the school exploding. Which was rather unfortunate because the effects guys had worked so hard and done such a great job.

Thanks for the warm welcome folks, time for me to hit the hay.

Perhaps I'll be able to get some work done tomorrow instead of mourning the show all day. If not, well, I tried, but it would kinda suck to lose a job over a wrapped show, no?

G'night.

My depression lifted two days after I saw the finale, but I was really surprised that it had that effect on me at all. I can't usually attribute my moods to events in my daily life.

It's really cool to be able to post in the Buffy threads after spending all season on my own. I think I came a little closer to understanding "Show, don't tell" from the discussion before. It's easy to say, but hard to separate from "I didn't believe it, so they must have only told it." I came across a really neat prediction from Julie.

I want Buffy's legacy to be that no one girl will ever have to deal with the isolation and separation that she had to face. If that means there's no slayer, I'm okay with that. Because, I think, the price was always too high.

I am so chuffed, on board, behind, in love with the slayer empowerment thing. It's absolutely the perfect wrapup to the myth and to the struggle of Buffy. That's just why.

Um, I'm sure lots of you felt a void much like I did tonight. Couldn't they at least show a rerun instead of that inane model show? Meeting some of you this weekend should help with the withdrawal though. . .

I flipped thru the channels and realized that there's nothing worth watching on Tuesdays now! I think this will become a homework night now. Tonight though, I watched the DVD of "Real Women Have Curves" instead. (It was a good movie, btw).

Um, I'm sure lots of you felt a void much like I did tonight. Couldn't they at least show a rerun instead of that inane model show?

The REALLY annoying thing is, according to the TVGuide, they were supposed to rerun the season 7 opener. Which I missed. Instead, we get miserable vapidity. Curses.