"Chosen" (Buffy Finale) **SPOILERS**
POSTED BY: Melee
UPDATED: Sunday, June 1, 2003 21:21
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I have to say, I really really liked it - it was a very satisfying ending for a great show. Buffy was always about a strong female leader, about empowering women and now they have done it - every potential has the full slayer powers! That really matched the whole theme. Just because some old men decided that only one at the same time can have the powers does not mean the girls will accept that! I really liked that line 
Guess there will be nothing left to do for Angel :-)
I'm glad they didn't kill off Buffy. Not because she wouldn't be able to do guest appearances (well, Spike got dusted and he will appear on Angel, or was that all fake to get us confused????), but because she already died twice, so whats the point?
But I was really shocked and saddened about Anya. Xander didn't even find her! She just died alone... very very sad. I will miss her.
Merl
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Anybody think that was a Kaylee line coming from Willow after she empowered all the potentials... "That was Spiffy" (or whatever it was she said)... sounded just like my Kaylee.
Made me smile is all.
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Nice ending. Buffy got something she's always wanted. She's no longer alone. Though, I suspect it will only be that way until the last one of those awakened by Willow's magicking dies. Then, the next will awaken and the pattern begins anew with only one Slayer.
I have to rewatch it to be sure, but from the way they were talking at the end, it sounds as if Willow permanently changed the Slayer legacy. From now on, there are no potential Slayers. All future Chosen will be full Slayers from the moment they're ... well, chosen, whenever that occurs. Birth, puberty, whatever.
So, where does that put "Fray"? It was my understanding there was only the one Slayer in that series. I could be wrong. I haven't read much of it.
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Nice ending. Buffy got something she's always wanted. She's no longer alone. Though, I suspect it will only be that way until the last one of those awakened by Willow's magicking dies. Then, the next will awaken and the pattern begins anew with only one Slayer.
I have to rewatch it to be sure, but from the way they were talking at the end, it sounds as if Willow permanently changed the Slayer legacy. From now on, there are no potential Slayers. All future Chosen will be full Slayers from the moment they're ... well, chosen, whenever that occurs. Birth, puberty, whatever.
So, where does that put "Fray"? It was my understanding there was only the one Slayer in that series. I could be wrong. I haven't read much of it.
That puts "Fray" as being written before this season.
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(MINOR "FRAY" SPOILERS TO FOLLOW:)
I wondered about the Fray thing too... Here's my guess: I now think Fray takes place in an alternate future time where Buffy was never resurrected after the end of season 5. Joss ALWAYS has a plan! He's like Batman or something.
If I remember correctly, Fray was told the last slayer (prior to her) was in the 21st century and died closing the door on a hell dimension. Now, I always assumed this was a fakeout and that this refered to a slayer later in this century whose circumstance was similar- but not identical- to Buffy at the end of season 5. Now I'm not so sure. It's a long century yet to go, however, and a lot could still happen.
I shrieked like a little girl when I saw Fray's scythe show up on Buffy, however (and I'm a largish grown-up fellow).
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And, what a way to end a series. Just eradicate the place where it happened. "There's another one in Cleveland. Smaller, though."
That's actually a shout-out to an earlier episode, 'The Wish', where in the Bizarro-Land dimension, Giles calls looking for Buffy on the phone and snaps, "Yes, I'm aware that there's a quite a bit of demonic presence in Cleveland."
Methinks Joss has something against that city! *grin*
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As for Spikes death and moving to LA.
Death is not the handicap it once was.
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Funny, the only part I cried at was when Xander said,"That's my girl, always doing the stupid thing."
And to end the series as not ending the storyline has me somehow hoping that there will be more, even though I know there's nothing in the works. Then again there was a 5 year gap between the movie and the series.
I have to say that I really respect SMG's talent on the show. She really has the ability, though why she chose the Scooby Doo movie was beyond me, even though there is the link of the Scoobys on BtVS, blah, blah. Any show that can make me cry has chops, no matter how teeny bopper it might look to the unenlightened. Yes, this is Joss' world, but SMG had something to do with it too. Yes, and the rest of the cast.
I was just so sad that it's finally over, still am.
As for my thoughts on Spike, I'm thinking that he won't be Spike on Angel. He could be I-Used-To-Be-Spike-Before-The-Whole-Hellmouth-Thingy, but obviously he can't be the same guy as we've come to expect too much from JW pull a lame stunt like, "Well, I was incinerated after the destruction of Sunnydale, but I'm better now."
At least get him away from the whole 60's British Punk look.
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WASH: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: We live in a space ship, dear.
WASH: So?
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I don't know, they resurrected both Darla and Buffy, and Darla was dust. Might be a "Poof, look who's back."
I loved the fact that the scoobies acted like the old scoobies. The "The world is doomed" quote is right exactly out of the first episode, and to me was a perfect quote.
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Whoa hey now, where did you hear about this Fray person? This slips my memory. Um, explain?
"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?" -Wash
"I told him to sit down," -Simon
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