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What the fuck? I expected to come back to at least oneohmygodicantbelieveBUFFYisover threads...

Are all the BtVS fans in England? Didn't ANYONE watch the finale? I won't spoil it for you limeys, but I thought it was a fitting end to one of the show's better seasons.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer might very well have been the greatest television show, ever... and no one cares that it has ended.

It wasn't wonderful because of its empowering feminist themes or allegorical representations of the every-teen's adolescence... fuck that crap. It was simply written amazingly, with very few exceptions (though, after 144 episodes, there are bound to be a couple stinkers). There has simply never been a multi-dimensional show so humorous and compelling. I will miss it.

At least we have Angel still. Woohoo for the season five cast addition that I won't spoil if you don't know already.

Anyone else sad to see the Buffster go?

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Apparently Annya dies (Emma Caulfield said that she was leaving even before the show was called off) and that is the sad thing, as she was the real hotty in the show and also very funny. Spike was the funniest character (great limey accent and mannerisms, of overdone, for a Californian, although not rivalling the Higgins character from Magnum, who was played by a Texan, John Hillerman) and then Xander and Annya. The Buffy character was probably the least appealing of all, on reflection.

Haven't seen the last episode yet, though.

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I'll miss the show, although James Marsters is going over to Angel, so that's one good thing. The fact that he dies shouldn't be an issue, I'm sure Joss Whedon will get around that easily enough.

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haha way to completely void the fact that mmmsivart was attempting to keep that cast thing quiet =P

yes, i saw it...
it didn't feel as final as some of the previous season finalies

but it definiately fit with this season which i thought was definitely one of the better ones

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Whatever. This past season made me glad Buffy is over. It's not like I hated it or anything, but I was starting to feel like I was trapped in a bad relationship, where the return isn't really worth the investment anymore, but you've been together for so long that you might as well keep going. I'm tepid on the actual finale. Whatever.

I'm just glad they got rid of Conner on Angel. I don't particularly care about that show anymore, either, but I'm kind of curious to see where the Wolfram & Hart ownership thing goes. The Conner story line chewed up all of the characters so much that I really don't care what happens to any of them anymore. How the fuck did Wesley end up being the coolest character in that universe?

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It's his fake English accent. And the confidence that comes from boffing willow in real life.

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And probably the toughness that comes from growing up as a boy named "Alexis".

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There has simply never been a multi-dimensional show so humorous and compelling. I will miss it.

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I can say that I've laughed out loud at almost every Simpsons episode I've watched, but I can also say the show has never moved me emotionally.

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You get moved emotionally?



Fag.

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Men who love Tori Amos songs should not cast stones...

...that aside, there's really no way they could end the show leaving anyone satisfied. Season Five felt like the last season and by all rights should have been. Season Six had a few high points, but dragged some utterly pointless dead wood elements along for too long (The Tara/Willow relationship for one. The only way to make lesbo love boring: make it realistic. Yawn)

Season Seven started off extremely well, with the first few episodes giving us some bang for out buck (or bang for or patience to sit through 25 minutes of commercials in an hour show). It started to get mired in sub-plots (Wood vs. Spike, Anya and Xander, tha fruitbat Andrew's "redemption") and went no where with them wrapping them up in ten minutes of poorly paced crap.

The stand out episode, IMO, was "Conversations with Dead People". Brilliantly paced, stellar script, and a good twist that was *gasp* actually unexpected.

The final episode of Buffy felt flat and tired as so many final episodes do. But what ya gonna do. Unlike so many other last episodes for other shows, the ending hinted at spin-off as subtily as a sack of doorknobs.

Hopefully, this lack of Buffy may mean a shift of Joss' focus to Angel, which has also fallen flat this last season. This is of course unless he comes up with another show as utterly crap as that space western of his.

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Maybe I didn't watch enough of it, I thought it was a piece of shit.

hmm.

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