(I wasn't a Buffista when this was on, so I'm sure that the topic has been done to death, but really.)

Actually, Victor (with Thessally's help I think) came up with the theory that, yes Giles was dead, but that Ethan Rayne had assumed Giles form either to help the First, or to keep the First from winning because, while Ethan may worship chaos, what the First was planning was a whole other thing (sort of like Spike wanting to save the world in Becoming).

It certainly fit with some of the clumsier things Giles was doing around then (pretending he could understand Chinese, the tacky line about the Scoobies worrying about him that he wasn't touching teenage girls).

I've still got my tinfoil hat on for this one - they never said it WASN'T Ethan.

wonders if this will be an x-post

Hmmm. Keeps watching S7 DVDs.

Most of these eps I've only seen once, aside from Conversations with Dead People, Storyteller, and Chosen. (The first two I've watched since on FX, and I watched Chosen probably 3 times in the week it aired- once in the last meeting of my beloved Buffy club, once when my bro got home from college to see it, and once when we had to watch it so we could tape it off the TiFaux to give it to a family friend who had missed it.) And a lot of S7 blends together in my memory blah blah speech blah blah Potentials blah blah mmm Spike...... and I think there is even an ep I didn't see. (Valentine's Day?), but I don't remember being satisfied as to the explanation of Giles not getting killed when an axe was about 2 centimeters away from his neck.

(Notes that soon there will likely be a flashback showing how Giles got away, which will turn on a lightbulb. I just don't remember buying it.)

but I don't remember being satisfied as to the explanation of Giles not getting killed when an axe was about 2 centimeters away from his neck.

According to Giles, (spoiler fonted in case you didn't want to know) squeaky shoes. Yeah. Right.

Suddenly I'm totally memfaulting on whether there was an actual flashback or not.

Suddenly I'm totally memfaulting on whether there was an actual flashback or not.

That's where I am- I need to see it. Giles saying "Oh, I got away," wasn't enough for me because we saw all but the spurting blood. Getting away from Axe Dude seemed to require a level of acrobatics I don't see Giles having.

Fruity Pebbles to ask:

Also, was Anya's hair color directly related to her demon status, or did she just get a dye job according to how evil/good she was feeling that day?

Also, was Anya's hair color directly related to her demon status, or did she just get a dye job according to how evil/good she was feeling that day?

Anya's hair changed so frelling much, I wonder if there was something it was supposed to represent that no one ever picked up on. Was at least consistenet through congruant episodes? I can't even remember.

I'm pretty sure with Oz, the changing hair color was just Seth Green being Seth Green (as with the fingernails), but I wonder if the constantly changing doos on Anya were supposed to foreshadow SELFLESS. In which case, kudos! That's some foresight, or at least an interesting insight in the character that they eventually brought front and center.

God I miss talking about shows like this, the current LOST thread being a wonderful oasis of theory, analysis and speculation.

edited because "consistenet" is not a word, not even a cromulent one.

Well, I haven't traced it carefully, but did note that she was brunette at the beginning of S7 through Selfless and now, during Showtime, she's back to blonde which (I believe) she remains through the end.

I believe there's an interview on one of the extras where the actress (whose name is escaping me, alas) talks about this. Basically, she likes to change her hair every now and then, and the hairdressers were having a hard time finding a suitable wig for continuity aspects or some such. So no, nothing to do with plot. At least that was true for earlier seasons. Don't know about Season Seven.

Well, I haven't traced it carefully, but did note that she was brunette at the beginning of S7 through Selfless and now, during Showtime, she's back to blonde which (I believe) she remains through the end.

It wasn't just the color, though - the styles kept changing too.

But given what xnera says, it may just be like Seth Green. Worked for the character, though.

Oh, it didn't bug me. If anything, it made me relate to Anya. Well that, and the Dance of Capitalist Superiority. (Which my employees at the store, to this day, don't seem to appriciate.)