My Giles ... is dead.

My Amanda ... is the next slayer.

That's all I've got. The rest is being well said by others.

Allyson - given that I have disagreed with most of your opinions since season 4 (especially that As You Were was a GOOD epsidode, blech), that was a lovely post about how it feels that everything is coming to an end. Let it be over, raise a toast and move on to the next obsession.

In my case, that may be Farscape, which proves what a contrary SOB I am.

Man, I'm tired.

They do not tell Dawn she is wrong for feeling abandoned enough to inadvertently summon a vengeance demon or make a wish.

Ah, no, quite right. But again - difference between a 14-year-old girl saying to someone she doesn't know she can't trust, I'm lonely, I'm disassociated, I wish these people I love would just stay with me for a while instead of being so busy (a perfectly understandable and justifiable wish), and, say, that same 14-year-old girl knowingly raising a vengeance demon for the purpose of wreaking vengeance and havoc on all those people she loves.

Which she didn't do, of course; in fact, she was horrified. But did anyone feel that Halfrek's vengeance on Dawn's behalf, when Dawn had in fact been Linda Tripped into confidence, was justified? I know I didn't.

It's probably just semantics, anyway. The issue, I mean.

Lordy, tired now.

deb - I'm tired too, on the first half of the new day, but that's how I feel, too.

That Kita Angel list was awesome {sob}. Where's yours of Buffy, Plei? Did skim past a link?

Let it be over, raise a toast and move on to the next obsession.

Well, I only get obsessed about a tv show about every 20 years (only happened twice before-original Trek, and Hill Street Blues, but in neither case as strongly as Buffy) but fortunately for me as long as a Buffyverse show is on the air (or in the works) it isn't over. (After Angel, maybe Ripper?)

I'll not likely shed a tear, but I might raise a toast to seven years on the air, old school Bronzers (REPRESENT REPRESENT), and an assload of fun and drama that I got from both Buffy, and the communities she inspired.

I cried watching End of Days, Allyson. Because, I think, I realised, really realised, I could see the finish line. And it wasn't in the hazy, fuzzy, intangible future. It was almost here, and nearly now.

I had the episode in the house for over 24 hours before I watched it. And I could sense that I was delaying, but I couldn't work out why. I want it to be over. Part of those tears were bitter Buffy flavoured. But also? I have a sense of loss akin to losing the Bronze. Or, you know, a friend.

If the show had just tanked, I think I could have walked away and good riddance. But it had.. moments. Every single week. I still saw shadows and flashes and hints of what made the best episodes the best. Little ME spices in the big Buffy stew. The knowledge that a little twist in the wrong direction here, or a miscued sentence there, could have been tweaked and pulled and replaced. And it would have been my show again.

I guess it's akin to loving someone, just because you can look in their eyes and remember who they used to be.

Or to quote The Whitlams...

what'll become of us?
I had my dreams for both of us
You might be unworthy
But you remember what I remember
And that's enough to care
You don't fall off the rails

(Or, perhaps I'm just a frustrated fanfic writer who hasn't found her words yet :)

My "What I want before BtVS ends" list has wasted away through out season seven (And it never really recovered from season six!) until it looks like a shopping list for the slightly depraved.

Gourd soup for one, a visit from Mr Gordo and the ever shiny PLPs might just about see me out.

And it may not be fine, but it will be okay.

Victor-I just read your article "She Saved the World a Lot." Great stuff!

Topic: Xander Harris has finally out Lloyd Dobler-ed Lloyd Dobler.

Witness:

Lloyd gave her his heart and she gave him a pen

vs

Xander gave her his heart and he got his eye poked out.

Compare. Contrast. Discuss.

Victor-I just read your article "She Saved the World a Lot." Great stuff!

Thanks, Ted and all. I'm glad everyone seems to like it.