I have a friend who will make herself stop reading a book when she gets close to the end; that way, she says "the characters won't stop doing stuff."

Oh, I do this.

when I was watching the download yesterday, I found myself yelling "Stop!" at the TV, like if I hit pause, Buffy wouldn't ever end, and it would all be okay.

And it's 50/50 whether I'll get up at 8:50 tonight and find something urgent to do in the kitchen, leave and let the tape run. I taped and have still never watched the final ep of ST:TNG.

I think this ties into my always being late. It's not that I don't want to arrive on time...it's that I have trouble leaving places, situations, people...tv shows.

I have a friend who will make herself stop reading a book when she gets close to the end; that way, she says "the characters won't stop doing stuff."

Oh, I do this.

This is the same friend who, when she goes to read, says (if, for instance, it's Harry Potter) "I have to go see what Harry's doing."

Or if we're out shopping and she's in the middle of a book, will look at me and say "I wonder what Harry's doing?"

I love that.

Whew! Steph, I'm so glad I was fast enough. It's not too small a thing to care about.

See now, I'm the opposite--I love getting to the end, because then I can go back and reread/rewatch/redo whatever it was I enjoyed so much. This is probably why I've read my favorite books upwards to 50 times.

This is probably why I've read my favorite books upwards to 50 times.

Oh, I re-read books upmteen times, and I do tend to rush through them so I can find out what happens, but still. There's nothing like the first time.

I taped and have still never watched the final ep of ST:TNG.

Wow. I thought I had it bad. It took me a full year to bring myself to watch the last 10 eps of DS9 and two months to finally watch "Serenity".

s7 was my most unspoiled year. It was grand to watch it as served. I think the only things I knew in advance were casting issues that were tough to miss without wearing blinders in the grocery store check out. As for the finale, the only spoilage for me came from the promo last week. Bastards.

I was totally spoiled during s5 and a little bit in s6. All in all this season was much more satisfying without knowing stuff. So glad I didn't know about Xander in advance!

I will play in the spoiler thread for a little while now, but I will flee before I actually get spoiled for Angel.

I'm really not taunting, but I have to say the first time I watched the finale I was so preoccupied with it being the finale that I had to watch again for content. I was just too numb to feel it the first run.

I can't wait to read the Spoiler thread, actually. I may end up ignoring the other threads in favor of it.

Hi guys. I mostly lurk around here because I don't have lots of time to keep up with so many posts!

I am just hoping that wherever I end up seeing the last episode *sigh* tonight that the recording works. I have this fear that we'll all get together and they'll start the tape or the TIVO and it won't work! But then that means that it won't be the end, right (wishful thinking)? But then again, Mercury goes direct today so it should all be ok.

Anyway, I'm wearing black today. I feel sorta silly wearing black to mourn the end of my favorite show, but more sad than silly so I'm doing it anyway. I feel like next Tuesday I'll be running around in circles wondering what to do!

My apologies on not catching the other spoiler in the WashPost article. I've seen it so many places, I thought everyone had heard it. Silly me.

I tend to avoid spoilery places. So except for that article, I'm pretty much unspoiled for tonight's ep. Except for the part where Anya is turned into a mouse and runs up Xander's pants leg.

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