It was exactly the same up to "Grr" but then turned to face us for the "Argh" all snarly-faced. We all fell about laughing.

edit: Whee! Cross-post! I hardly ever get to cross post (Hi Laura!)

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Hi Ouise! Pleasure cross posting with you this morning.

I was just too numb with the overwhelming finality of it all to be articulate last night. However, I watched again with my coffee and now I am all talky.

Previously – The very first scene was sacrificial Spike and I was sure he going to die. Then I was grateful that Jeff wouldn’t have such a big task this time.

Lovely Jossy dialogue throughout. Explainy. He wears lifts. Jealous vampire crap. The drawing. The whole having my pride thing was just a smoke screen. Canon fodder.

I liked Dawn. I loved Andrew’s total shock at being alive.

Spike being straight up about the Angel kissage was cool. I thought about Joss saying BtVS was a soap opera, but in a soap people are never straight up.

Elena! I thought of you when Buffy called Caleb a taunter.

Buffy looked beautiful. The hair and clothes were lovely.

Giles, bloody brilliant.

Still pissed that they showed White Willow in the promo last week. Bastards.

The fighty new slayers were awesome. And I totally thought Buffy was dead.

Brilliant attempt to give everyone what they want. I love you. No you don’t, but thanks for saying it.

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It makes me wish Joss could have written the whole season. Because everyone seemed like themself. Bits of it did seem choreographed (the school), but in a very good cause, so I ain't mad at him.

Giles was Giles. Why couldn't he have been Giles all season?

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I was also really impressed with Vi - she looked so fierce!

Hands off -- she's mine! You all can have your Wes, Giles, Gunn, Xander, Spike, whatever. I get the hat girl.

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Hands off -- she's mine!

Hee. I actually do remember you expression devotion before this episode, so clearly you are the One True Vi Appreciator.

I'm wondering why R***y saying that Buffy didn't love him pissed me the hell off, while I liked Spike saying it. Hmmm.

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And, did anyone see Kennedy alive at the end?

She didn't make it onto the bus as it pulled away from the school. So I'm thinking no.

I love you. No you don’t, but thanks for saying it.

Man, I thought that was just about the perfect note for that relationship to end on.

The only point I really teared up (except for one random moment when it suddenly occurred that this was the end) was the new slayer montage, with the baseball girl and the others standing up and realizing their power. Pure sap, but what you gonna do? Revealing that the spell had worked just by focusing on Kennedy's face was lovely as well.

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The only point I really teared up (except for one random moment when it suddenly occurred that this was the end) was the new slayer montage, with the baseball girl and the others standing up and realizing their power.

Me too! So glad no one walked by my office at that point.

And thanks for the support Ouise!

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Oh - and during that montage, there was what I thought a fairly subtle shot of a woman getting up from the ground to face her... attacker? abusing spouse? Wasn't really clear, but the POV was nice -- the camera was looking over the shoulder of the attacker and the woman's face expressed a combination of rage and power.

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I think in the script it's suppose to be an abusive father...

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I loved that shot. She was a big girl, too, which is always nice to see.

ETA

And the smile on the baseball girl's face, and... It was just so well done, when it could have been completely cheesy. When they first cut away from the action back to the speechifying I groaned - not more speeches, plus it was already pretty clear what Willow was doing. But they really made it work.

I'll say again, Buffy's greatest burden was never being the slayer, it was being the "one girl in all the world." That's something that gets lost so easily, and it was a wonderful focus for the last episode.

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