Becoming II was the best finale IMO. Then it's a tie between Prophesy Girl (points taken off for some poor production values) and Restless.
Mal: Inara, think you could stoop to being on my arm? Inara: Will you wash it first?
'Heart Of Gold'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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Narrator - Dec 07, 2003 1:11:00 pm PST #6752 of 10001
The evil is this way?
tina f. - Dec 07, 2003 1:21:54 pm PST #6753 of 10001
Long ago in the music thread there was some minor questioning as to whether Spike and Buffy had theme music like Angel/Buffy and Riley/Buffy did.
Plei's post made me go home and watch the last four eps of S7 on Friday night (yes, even Empty Places).
And Spike and Buffy do in fact have theme music. In Touched when they are having the talk in the stranger's bedroom, the same music, though much quieter and orchestrated differently, that plays during the tearing-down-the-house sex scene from Wrecked is playing.
So I'm guessing that is their theme music. Though it isn't included on the new soundtrack as the A/B and R/B themes were on previous releases. But it wasn't used nearly as much as the former were.
And I just had to post that so I could stop thinking about it.
Cindy - Dec 07, 2003 3:34:23 pm PST #6754 of 10001
Nobody
(points taken off for some poor production values)
Yes, but plus points for "You've got fruit punch mouth."
eta...
And I just had to post that so I could stop thinking about it.
Hee.
WildDemon Cornelius - Dec 07, 2003 3:36:03 pm PST #6755 of 10001
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
My list of finales from best to least best (they're all very, very good episodes of any TV show):
Becoming II , Restless (although if we're talking about "final battle w/ the Big Bad" episodes, I would rank "Primeval" the lowest) , The Gift , Grave , Graduation Day II , Prophecy Girl , Chosen
Gleebo - Dec 07, 2003 4:00:53 pm PST #6756 of 10001
"God...my brilliance is now becoming a bit of a burden...get back to me." Dr. Cox - Scrubs
I just love the joining spell in Primevil.
P.M. Marc - Dec 07, 2003 5:56:13 pm PST #6757 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Becoming, Restless, Graduation Day, Chosen, Prophecy Girl, Grave, The Gift.
(Yes, the Gift, despite the fact that I cry at the fucking music, goes last.)
SailAweigh - Dec 07, 2003 6:23:45 pm PST #6758 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Okay, I've just got to be totally a contrarian:
The Gift, Chosen, Restless, Becoming, Graduation Day, Prophecy Girl, and Grave.
And often Becoming and Graduation Day will reverse position on any given day depending on my mood. The rest are pretty immutable.
DavidS - Dec 07, 2003 8:01:32 pm PST #6759 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Becoming, Restless, Graduation Day, Chosen, Prophecy Girl, Grave, The Gift.
Pretty close to my list, but Grad Day gets docked for use of giant snake which is always a bad idea in the Jossiverse, yet he just couldn't resist.
Joss, next time? Resist the snake.
Also I love Grave very much and would rank it behind Becoming Pt. 2. Though that is in part some of the oomph I got from watching Two to Go.
The Gift is last for me because I knew Buffy was coming back. It's not a bad episode for all that and Joss certainly made her earn her resurrection. But for me it totally undercut her death. Death oughta mean something narratively dammit.
Jean Grey shoulda stayed dead, and so should everybody else who got jerked back into the living and corporeal.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2003 8:02:43 pm PST #6760 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Joss, next time? Resist the snake.
Joss tosses the Ourobouros Firefly script.
Cindy - Dec 08, 2003 12:03:15 am PST #6761 of 10001
Nobody
Pretty close to my list, but Grad Day gets docked for use of giant snake which is always a bad idea in the Jossiverse, yet he just couldn't resist.
Joss, next time? Resist the snake.
Also I love Grave very much and would rank it behind Becoming Pt. 2.
What about giant snake in Grave?
Oh. Wait. That was a penis temple. Never mind.