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Ok I just watched the last ever Buffy and I have a few thoughts, so if you haven't seen it, I advise you to not read on.
Overall I liked the episode, I thought it was witty, which I hadn't expected. I figured it'd all be pretty emotional for the last ever episode, tieing up loose ends and all that crap, but there was a lot of humour, I like that. I could have done with more Angel, I thought his brief appearance was extremely unecessary from what they made of it. Don't get me wrong, I wanted him in the episode, but the way they did it made it extremely transparent that they just pulled him in, waved him around to the fans so they were happy, then took him out. His lines were good though, I liked the whole 'Now EVERYONE'S gotta have a soul....I started the whole thing' pout lol, I was cracking up.
Now I knew of the casualties before actually watching the episode, and I knew that Anya would die, but what I didn't expect at all was that her death would be a split second on screen of getting pretty much sliced and then Andrew and Xander joking about it afterwards. I mean how pathetic is that? When she's been with the cast fighting alongside them since the third season and she gets that bloody send off!! That was fucking appalling! And then Spike getting the 'champion' status, and Buffy's last words being in the episode being I Love You to him. What crap. After the episode started with her kissing Angel and talking about their future together, and then that! pppfftttt! And we already know Spike is joining the Angel cast next season, so his 'death' didn't really have an impact on me, seeing as I knew he had a future, although that didn't stop me crying when Buffy died and I knew there were at least 2 other series....so I guess that just means I didn't particularly care either way what happened to Spike. Purely because his character lost my attention. The whole having a soul thing I thought could be interesting, but just turned out plain dull to be honest. I didn't care for the character anymore and his chemistry, his appeal, it was all lost.
Ok Dawn. I like her. At first, and for a very long time, I hated her, this season she's grown on me and they didn't overdo it with any of her lines. They were down to the minimum and I thought it was just right. As she was walking away from Buffy in the school I realised she how much she has grown on me and actually grown up. Xander and Willow there wasn't enough of, Giles had some bloody fantastic lines and at the end as I was crying he even managed to make me laugh again when someone said
'That's the end of the hellmouth then' and he replied 'Actually there's another one in Cleveland....not to...er..spoil the moment'
lol fantastic! And it reminded me what the show was about. And you know what? That episode is one of the best I've seen and why the hell couldn't they put all of that into the whole season, and while they're at it the season before that..and the season before that?? You know?? I mean they had the emotion, the action, the romance and the humour crammed into a one hour finale, so it's duable! Chosen was at season 1-3 standard, they could have kept it up in season 5 and 6, but they kept it drawn out and lost it somewhere in the middle.
You know what else I would've absolutely loved?? Oz in the finale! They shouldve had him in there..and OMG my Buffy poster just fell down off the wall, excuse me while I cry some more. How much more bloody symbolic can you get?? Jesus!! Ok, anyway, yes Oz! He would've been great in there doing anything at all, fighting, coming and going like Angel did, anything at all! Why Joss why??! ggrrrr!
Ok some more things I did love - the whole fight was stunning and the explosion Spike's pendant thingy created with the hellmouth, the whole 'all girls becoming slayers' thing was pretty cool, I wonder if anything will come of that theory in future Angel episodes? what would have been amazing is a massive Angel/Buffy crossover somehow, get Wes, get Cordy (if she wasn't unconscious) back, hell even get Fred and Gunn in there! One big party!! I'll be watching it many times over. I still can't believe that's it....I'm now officially in denial
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