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.

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.

Okay. I agree with that. I wish her last line just hadn't only been, "Spike."

I felt ripped off. I didn't need her 'splaining or summing. I didn't need her giving the moral of the story or anything. But I don't think (without checking the transcript) that anything of substance came out of her mouth from the time she told Spike she loved him, on through the end.

I sort of wish she'd been able to give a full-fledged laugh as her last utterance on the show, rather than just smiling hopefully.

I remember a lot of laughter from that era.

Like the end of "Inca Mummy Girl."

We'll never know what she told them, and the expression of wonder/peace on her face was enough for me.

There was also glee. Don't forget the glee. Such a "what a relief/we did it/I done good/think of the possibilities" all in one look. SMG NAILED it. I wonder what she thought when she read the script.