Graduation Day was more than the giant snake, though. Buffy and Angel and the bite orgasm. Faith and the Mayor. Faith and Buffy. Oz and Willow having The Sex. The whole student body fighting together. Buffy quitting the Council.
Word.
The student rising up and making sacrifices, that last shot of them taking a moment, the beginnings of the end, Angel moving on...
The Big Snake was cheesy, but the heart was good and true.
I didn't even think the big snake was all that cheesy. Contrast with the one from Season 5.
Graduation Day was Chosen, except with less magic and more flamethrowers. Buffy Shares The Fight.
I would actually argue with the "less magic" bit of that, though I understand the sense in which you mean it. One of the problems I have with Chosen is that it dropped the metaphor in the end. The fight that the Slayers-not-in-Sunnydale were all in the girl power fight, not the fight-demonic-evil-that-often-symbolizes-girl-power fight, which was one of the central bits of the series. It made me sad that it got dropped at the end.
Riley's plastic stake=symbol of the fact that Riley and Buffy's love isn't real. Or it might just be the lesbian thing, I actually did spit water on my pet Minotaur Roscoe.
Ita-I'm with you on the Amanda thing...Vi? Rona? What the hell?
You know, it would have been bizarrely cool if Buffy's jump in "The Gift" hadn't worked and Dawn had to jump anyway, because sometimes you can make all the sacrifices you want, and it's still not going to be enough.
Proportion question: Who's shorter, Oz or Jonathan?
as Oz is about an inch shorter than Willow, who's maybe two inches taller than Buffy, who towers over Jonathan...
as Oz is about an inch shorter than Willow, who's maybe two inches taller than Buffy, who towers over Jonathan...
...they'll all next work together in a remake of
Gulliver's Travels.
Last allergy moment, core four, hall...yeah...just thinking about it...damn.
Favorite moment(s) from each finale
Prophecy Girl - Angel Buffy Xander walk the walk to the theme song, "Oh look! A bad guy!"
Becoming Pt 2 - "What's Left?" "Me" THWACK
Graduation Day pt 2 - "Wanna get it back?...dick!"
Restless - (scary because they are both captain cardboard moments) "Im looking for a man...a sales man" and "We need to make a fort, I'll go get the pillows."
The Gift - Giles, everything Giles, especially the back and forth with him and Spike and the whole St Crispins day speech. And the killing.
Grave - Giles telling Anya that they have one hope left...Xander
Chosen - The final 29 minutes are pure bliss and perfection in my book. Best half hour in television history to me.