Also though? I think the very end of Chosen was another moment for her. I wish Joss had given her the last line, though. I feel as though he cheated the character.

This may be a big ol copout on my part, Cindy, but I think of that look on her face as the last line of that episode.

I don't think Buffy was freaked out about the hunting. It wasn't after her encounter with Dracula that she realized that the hunting was a reflection of the darkness attached to her power, and that her need for the hunting (and hiding it) meant that there was something amiss re: Riley.

But isn't the teaser to BvD (I don't have it on tape, so maybe not) her getting out of bed next to a blissful Riley and hunting a vamp down and then going back to bed - and it was all like - Buffy has a problem, what is she doing hunting like a crazy animal, this is weird gentle viewer and this season we're gonna *deal* with it. Or maybe that was the next ep.

Uhm, Sean - have you heard my I thought Giles had been to hell and kept waiting for three whole seasons to find out how and why even though there was no real evidence to support that story?

Yeah, I was very entertained by your admission of this theory. There was even a sad little part of me that wished it had been true, it sounded so neat.

Yeah, I was very entertained by your admission of this theory. There was even a sad little part of me that wished it had been true, it sounded so neat.

I am glad it could bring amusement to somebody - because you have *no* idea how excited I was during Grave - with the magicks - I was all "Finally!! It's true! Giles is some all-powerful wizard who has been to hell and back and lived a thousand years and is probably a greek god of some kind and that's what this season finale is really about. At last, redemption for tina's crazy Giles' theory!"

And then Willow said the thing about them being borrowed magicks. And - well - the look the folks watching with me gave me I will never forget. They were so sad for me and yet so relieved that they didn't have to hear about it anymore. Little did they know I would find preverse joy in telling it over and over again...

Buffy has a problem, what is she doing hunting like a crazy animal, this is weird gentle viewer and this season we're gonna *deal* with it. Or maybe that was the next ep.

No, that was in BvD, but we the audience realize that it may be a problem for Buffy, but I suggest that at that time Buffy herself didn't view it as a problem.

but I suggest that at that time Buffy herself didn't view it as a problem.

I consider your suggestion...and accept it. That period was probably the time when her character was happiest over all.

Now I am going to go work because I have spent the last hour thinking about Giles - NSM conducive to getting work done.

eta: I was really posting so much to get to this cool number. I feel l've accomplished something important.

I just heard that a coworkers sister and brother in law are getting a dog, a husky that they think is part worf (female dog, btw). The BIL is a big Buffy fan, but doesn't want to name the dog Buffy. He wants to name it....Glory.

I suggested Veruca, since it's part wolf.

I just heard that a coworkers sister and brother in law are getting a dog, a husky that they think is part worf .

if it's part Worf, shouldn't it get a Klingon name?

(I HAD to, we were all thinking it!!)

dang, I thought I had caught that!

I wish Joss had given her the last line, though. I feel as though he cheated the character.

Oh gosh, I don't feel that way at all, I felt like Buffy's silence, the not having the last word, ever, was more powerful than anything she could have said. It leaves the path wide open for the scoobies and the audience, and I thought it was brilliant. We'll never know what she told them, and the expression of wonder/peace on her face was enough for me. And I was prepared to be a wee hate bomb about it.

Maybe it was the sap dripping off the end of "The Prom" that makes me disregard it as Buffy at her happiest. But I honestly think her happiest time (that we've seen) was in Season 1, when her new friends were like a family, she was beginning to grow into the Slayer role, she was still resolved to have a social life and do girly stuff, there were the first thrills of romance with Angel before it all went bad, and she hadn't yet been traumatized by the prospect of dying at the Master's hands. I remember a lot of laughter from that era.