The party isn't over. The party is moving to Angel's house. (And telling myself that is how I'm going to get through the last episode.)

"Him" gets better from the moment Dawn runs outside crying and Xander's foot comes into frame.

Yeah, the second half is entertaining, when it stops being all about Dawn and her pathetic crush.

This is so sad; the local Buffy group isn’t doing anything for the finale. Even the “Fear Factor” group had a barbecue tonight.

I found the first half of "Him" painful and the second half a total hoot. C'mon, running past the window with the rocket launcher? Comic genius.

Who did they barbecue?

What are you looking at me like that for? It is Fear Factor.

"Him" gets better from the moment Dawn runs outside crying and Xander's foot comes into frame.

Ah. The farthest I got in that one was her pushing the kid down the stairs. I wandered away and never saw the second half.

Problem is, I had a low tolerance for 13-year-old angst even when I was thirteen, so I bailed. It improves, you say? I'll give it another shot.

The first half is pure FF material. The second half much laughter. The split screen cracked me up. And rocket launcher was the best.

What I Want From The Finale
by Stephanie Lang

I want the issue of 2 Slayers to be resolved in such a way that there is only 1 Slayer by 9:00, and neither Buffy nor Faith has to die for that to happen.

I want Giles back. Real Giles.

I want Xander to have 2 eyes.

I want Andrew alive at the end of it.

And Spike...oh my poor en-souled vamp. I want him to get over Buffy and get his 'tude back. Maybe go looking for Dru.

I want the SiTs to go back to wherever they came from, and finish high school, college, or cosmetology school.

I want the Scoobs to form the Council of Watchers, Mark 2.0.

I want Anya to go away.

I want an epilogue that is Willow, turning the corner in Istanbul, and running into Oz.

I want the Grrr Argh guy to be pithy and witty and not make me cry.

Oh! And I want All-Naked, All-Gay.

(Okay, I know most of it is a pipe dream. But All-Naked, All-Gay could still happen...)

I think it was just bringing in the strangest thing one could find, so they had stuff like ostrich, snail and possum. I suppose for a Buffy one someone would have to bring a principal.

Next week's TV Guide (May 24-30) has a brief column about a special called Night Bites: Women and Their Vampires that's going to air on WE.

When did Marti Noxon's vampire obsession begin? "Back in the late '70's," says the executive producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which ended its six-year run on May 20). "A girlfriend and I bought tickets for (a movie) and snuck in to see Frank Langella in 'Dracula' (instead). It blew my mind. I wanted to get bit."

She is not alone. Noxon is one of a half dozen experts (including TV Guide's own Maitland McDonagh and Lisa Bernhard) interviewed in WE's Night Bites: Women and Their Vampires, a special about the reasons why -- when it comes to movies, books and TV shows about these princes of darkness -- women say "Bite me." But in a good way. "The combination of danger and the promise of eternal love," says Noxon, "is very, very sexy."

What the heck is the WE? Is that one of the smaller cable channels?

When Interview With the Vampire came out, a friend and I went to see it (a lo, what a waste of time and hottiness -- Pitt, Banderas and Cruise in the same movie...but I digress). As we went in I was explaining to him that a lot of women find vampires sexy. I don't think he believed me, until two women walked by and one of them suggested that they get right up front so they could be next to the vampires.

(Edited to correct punctuation.)