The End.

[tinyjo]

Watched the last ever Buffy last night, and I have to say, I was not impressed. It was a distinctly average episode (and that's even a little kind). It had a nice idea and there were a couple of good bits of banter - I enjoyed the Buffy/Faith scene for example - there were some pretty dreadful bits, particularly with Angel.

What was she blithering on about choice for near the end anyway? None of the potentials had a choice about getting the slayerness. Only Willow got to choose. And why wait til they were already inside to do it? There didn't seem to be any need. Also, sending Angel off to hold a putative second front was dumb - if they'd failed any second front would have had no chance. I can forgive that slightly though by assuming that that was just to get him out of the way so that she could hug Spike.

Sadly, I've still to be convinced that they should ever have made Seasons 6 and 7. There's been some OK episodes, and the musical episode was great but most of Season 6 was pretty bad and while Season 7 has been much better, it hasn't hit the heights that Buffy used to. I also think that the last episode of Season 5 would have been a really kick-ass way to end the series. It was the best use of a pre-credits sequence ever, I think and it was a pretty damn good episode. That would have been going out with a bang rather than a whimper.

Oh yeah, and what's with Sky postponing the next episode of Angel to show some dumb-ass Buffy documentary (I'm assuming it was dumb-ass as I didn't watch it). Do they not realise that Angel is in a pretty exciting suspenseful place too and we want to know what happens next? Bastards. Actually, it suddenly occurs to me that they may be planning to do a double bill next week to finish up, which wouldn't be too bad. But still.

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[coalescent.livejournal.com]

No, the choice was definitely whether or not to become slayers. "Slayers...every one of us. Make your choice. Are you ready to be strong?", she says.

I think the question of whether she'd have called it off if the potentials had been scared misses the point somewhat; the fact that this time, she'd got the leadership business *right*. That she wasn't commanding, she was leading and that dammit, it was a pretty decent plan!

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

You see, to me she came off exactly the same as before, but this time they just took it. Also, it was a crap plan. If Spike's bit of jewellery hadn't done something entirely unexpected then they would all have died. And what the hell was the idea of putting 6 civilians on their own upstairs. It was so obvious that if any of the vamps got up there they would be shafted. I'm surprised more of them didn't die (and I think that if those vamps were as strong as the first ubervamp we'd seen, they would have). And why the hell did they wait til they were already there before Willow did her spell - if it had gone wrong in any way they would have been shafted.