That's my girl
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celestialfrayI started watching this show when I was in the 7th grade. I was 12. I'm now 18 and in my first year of college. This has been such a steady part of my life that I'm not sure what I'll do now that it's gone. I know it's not completely dead. There are still reruns. DVDs. Merchandise. Joss. But this is still the end of an age.
I think part of me is still in denial. How can something so constant be gone? I've seen nearly every episode when it originally aired. Every Tuesday (and the Mondays before that) it was assumed to be Buffy's night. It still is... ::sniff:: Is it really over?
I'm not at all coherent. Many of my IMs were expressed in terms of "fkdljdsklfjds" and "!!!!"
Wow, this was an ending. I really liked it. Loved it. (My biggest disappointment was that Christophe Beck didn't do the score) It had a lot of what I wanted. Spike's redemption. Buffy saying "I love you" (I refuse to take Spike's response as truth. Hasn't he been shown, despite his great perceptive qualities, to have a blind spot where their relationship is concerned?)
I know Spike isn't dead-dead, but that doesn't make his end here any less meaningful (or tearinducing). He saved the world. ("I always knew I'd go down fighting") His ass is permanently redeemed.
And Anya. Dude. I saw her death coming, but it still hit me. I didn't want her to die. She's come so far that... But I'm glad she went down fighting. (and Bunnies, hee) Did anyone notice that she died like a Samurai? The cut. Shoulder to hip. I vaguely remember reading a philisophical essay on the concept of this as an honorable way to kill for a samarai was this method. About how they had to do it this way. Still that last shot of her empty eyes nearly killed me. "That's my girl. Always doing the stupid thing."
The ending was so right. The Sunnydale Welcome Sign falling into the pit that was Sunnydale. Spike knocked it down for the last time. And Buffy. Finally getting her happy ending. She's no longer alone. The only one. Now she can finally rest.
I love Joss.
I think part of me is still in denial. How can something so constant be gone? I've seen nearly every episode when it originally aired. Every Tuesday (and the Mondays before that) it was assumed to be Buffy's night. It still is... ::sniff:: Is it really over?
I'm not at all coherent. Many of my IMs were expressed in terms of "fkdljdsklfjds" and "!!!!"
Wow, this was an ending. I really liked it. Loved it. (My biggest disappointment was that Christophe Beck didn't do the score) It had a lot of what I wanted. Spike's redemption. Buffy saying "I love you" (I refuse to take Spike's response as truth. Hasn't he been shown, despite his great perceptive qualities, to have a blind spot where their relationship is concerned?)
I know Spike isn't dead-dead, but that doesn't make his end here any less meaningful (or tearinducing). He saved the world. ("I always knew I'd go down fighting") His ass is permanently redeemed.
And Anya. Dude. I saw her death coming, but it still hit me. I didn't want her to die. She's come so far that... But I'm glad she went down fighting. (and Bunnies, hee) Did anyone notice that she died like a Samurai? The cut. Shoulder to hip. I vaguely remember reading a philisophical essay on the concept of this as an honorable way to kill for a samarai was this method. About how they had to do it this way. Still that last shot of her empty eyes nearly killed me. "That's my girl. Always doing the stupid thing."
The ending was so right. The Sunnydale Welcome Sign falling into the pit that was Sunnydale. Spike knocked it down for the last time. And Buffy. Finally getting her happy ending. She's no longer alone. The only one. Now she can finally rest.
I love Joss.
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Date: 2003-05-21 10:21 am (UTC)"No, you don't, but thanks for saying it."
See, if there had been time, she could have said, "You're a dope!" and they'd have gotten shirty with each other.... ***sigh*** It's almost as if he was telling her it was okay for her to leave him.
"You've got to go on living...so one of us is living...."
"This is the work I have to do....Live. For me."
Incredible how their journeys parallel.
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Date: 2003-05-21 04:11 pm (UTC)It's almost as if he was telling her it was okay for her to leave him.
Yeah, I agree. This so should have been a two hour finale.
And yes, if I hadn't known better, I would think their journeys had been planned from the beginning. It just fits so well. Looking at the entire arc, it seems it was meant to be.