I have my download, but I am not going to watch on my lunch hour, because-- what if I want to cry. I am undecided about whether I will watch tonight or wait until Tuesday.

Does it seem odd to anyone else that UPN isn't doing a lot of advertising for the final ep? It would seem like the superbowl of cult shows.

Nah. Ratings have been not so good for the past few sweeps eps. They probably don't want to bother spending any more money on BTVS. Plus there's been multi-article features in many of the major print pubs for the past 2 weeks.

I'm being bingey. I will watch on my lunch hour, and again tonight with the Atlantic Canadians' watch and post. In true amych tradition, I probably won't be home tomorrow night after all, and I certainly can't wait until after it's aired. waaah!

I just got semi majorly spoiled for the finale by someone. I said something about tomorrow being the finale and she said "yeah and *spoiler* happens!" She was being enthusastic and bondy about the show ending but ARGH!! I didn't want to know!

that happened to me last season. but the moron was just clueless, wanted to impress me by saying "did you know . . ." and I said "no, I didn't. But that' because I didn't WANT to know"

Since I haven't been able to read the 1000+ messages that have accumulated since last Tuesday night someone may have already said this, but here goes anyway:

Isn't the axe Buffy pulled from the stone a perfect tool for someone who wants to be a fireman when the floods roll back?

Ooh, good point.

And that TWOP banner. . .

There was some moron who was standing around telling people what was going to happen. "Oh it's so awesome you'll never guess that *ending spoiler!*"

That's not a moron. That's an asshole.

I think I'm going to watch during lunch....

I thought when they did the spell that caused Andrew to speak for captured!bringer, that this was pretty clear. He called himself a drone and I immediately thought hivemind (because - you know, bees) and pretty much everything he said was in the first person, plural. Am I the only one who was okay with that?

Nope, Cindy, that was my thinking too, more or less.

But I think I pictured it more that the FE was sort of downloading all the needed info to the bringers, but not that it was hearing or seeing whatever they saw. If that truly is the case, I would have expected to have seen an example of the FE hearing something through the bringers and acting on it before now. As far as the bomb goes, I thought that had already been set up (see Caleb's gloating after his encounter with Buffy at the school) and the bringers having been given the info in order to point the scoobs in the right (wrong) direction.

Rewatching to get ready for tomorrow, I'm less put off by the Angel/Buffy interaction. But it's still a major departure from Angel as we last saw him and in light of what we know about his recent past. Possibly it's the Indiana Jones entrance and the glamour shot as Buffy sees him, but there better be some kind of explanation coming down the pipe.

Isn't the axe Buffy pulled from the stone a perfect tool for someone who wants to be a fireman when the floods roll back?

Yeah, it really seems like there's a connection. Though I've not heard of many fire departments using scythes, as they keep trying to insist it is.

Does it seem odd to anyone else that UPN isn't doing a lot of advertising for the final ep? It would seem like the superbowl of cult shows.

Maybe they dont really need to do so, since there's so much press. Just seems like the WB went nets on advertising the finale in season five.

You know, I never watch UPN for anything other than Buffy, so I have no idea how much they've advertised. The show has gotten a lot of publicity though, lately. I suppose they're thinking, "Why bother?" I thought the WB advertised the S5 finale to be nasty. Remember all the "The WB's series finale" promos? At the time it seemed like they just wanted to confuse newer viewers, who weren't up on things, so they'd think that with Buffy's death, and the "series finale" the show was over for good.

Also wondering what the Grr Argh monster will have to say.

In a way, I hope he just says, "Grr Arrgh," and nothing more. I did love his, "I need a hug," at the end of Becoming, though.

Though I've not heard of many fire departments using scythes, as they keep trying to insist it is.

I don't know why they keep trying to claim that it's a scythe. a scythe is " An implement consisting of a long, curved single-edged blade with a long bent handle, used for mowing or reaping." Excalibraxe does not have a curved handle.

Though it just occurred to me that maybe they are referring to it as a scythe to try to associate the Slayer with Death.