eesh. Don't get me going on "Forever". I don't usually say that I dislike episodes, but that one ranks very low on my list of 144.

I think it was DB's acting that seemed phoned in and out of place that turned me off from that episode.

Oh and the demon eggs. Whenever there are eggs and Spike involved, this never really goes well in my book.

Yeah, but he was in it for what, two minutes?

I think it may be the fact I found Monkey'sPaw!Joyce to be the scariest thing in the show's history that made me so fond of the ep. Although I'm also of the opinion that SMG tuned in some of her finest acting of the season in that final scene.

Yeah but I cringed through the 2 minutes. I think I need a rewatch. Maybe it was because it was right after one of the most dramatically gripping episodes of the entire series run that made most of "Forever" ring hollow for me.

The demon eggs were in As You Were and I stand by my wank that Spike was holding the eggs for someone else to try to make money to help the girls out. Because there is no way he'd use the underworld nickname 'Doc'.

LALALALALALALA! I can't hear anything you say to contradict me.

"Forever" had demon eggs too, and made into reality my sarcastic prediction about cast raises resulting in the monsters being played by Muppets in Season 5.

The demon eggs were in As You Were and I stand by my wank that Spike was holding the eggs for someone else to try to make money to help the girls out. Because there is no way he'd use the underworld nickname 'Doc'.

Feh. That was another "that's totally stupid and makes no sense" episode.

"Forever" had demon eggs too

Oh, yes, for the raising spell. I had forgotten.

Sean, yes, if they had only picked another name. 'Doc' (or was it 'The Doctor'?) is just not something Spike would have used.

Yeah, "As You Were" had me thinking "Couldn't this episode be a psychotic hallucination brought on by demon venom too? Please?"

Something's that's been bothering me in recent interviews is the line "We wish we could've given Xander (Giles) (Dawn) more of a storyline (personality) (life), but there were all these things we had to get done this season, and there just wasn't time." Because just how much characterization (one of the highest points of Buffy) are you willing to let fall by the wayside before reconsidering how important "all those other things you have to get done" are?

My view of the season's high and low points: first seven good-to-excellent (I'll let "Help" and parts of "Him" slide); next eight a completely average muddle, with TKiM and First Date rising above it at points; Storyteller dragging me back to happiness; LMPTM dashing it away again; Dirty Girls, Empty Places, and Touched another, less severe slump; End of Days and Chosen getting Es for effort.

Still, despite the banality of Help, the when-will-it-end-ness of Never Bring a Sleeper to Showtime Potential Night, and the pod people of LMPTM, nothing came anywhere near the level of The Episode Which Shall Never Be Watched Again.

I liked Season 7, but I wish I could have loved it.

(I misused the word "completely" in that last post. But I'm not editing it, because I'm afraid the paragraph in question will explode.)