*dances*
OMG! ITS OFFICAL! I HAVE SEEN EVERY SINGLE EPISODE OF BUFFY EVER!* GO ME!!!
*yes, that’s including the unaired pilot. Go me. My favourite episodes, series, characters, etc. coming soon…
I just watched Chosen, and OMG. They couldn’t of made a better ending!! Except that it gave me a horrible mix of feelings of grief and hope. And I so want to find out what happens next! But we never will. Apart from anything else, the most likely ending would literally be ‘and she woke up and it was all a dream’…
Many people over-look the importance of the end of ‘Normal Again’, as seeing as it’s probably the most significant moment in ‘Buffy’ history. It shows us that in reality (or, at least TV reality) Buffy is really a teenage girl in some LA mental institution and everyone and everything that happens in ‘Buffy the vampire slayer’ is all a figment of her imagination. So as the start of BTVS started just after Buffy went to the mental institution, it would make sense that the end would cause Buffy to wake up from her semi-conscious state and join her parents in reality. I know it may should harsh, but I’ve decided it’s the only way I can live with not knowing what happens next in the lives of my beloved Buffy characters. And as I know that in the end it’s all a lie anyway, it makes me feel comfortable than trying to guess. And believe me, there’s nothing worse than driving yourself crazy over a TV programme.
I still can’t quite believe it’s the end. I guess I just got so used to watching series where I knew what was going to happen later, like Spike falling in love with Buffy, Oz coming (and leaving), Willow becoming a lesbian witch girl, Anya and Xander getting together, Buffy not being with Angel. I already knew what was going to happen, I’d done the hard part, starting to watch a programme five series in, I was just filling the gaps. Series 7 was like true territory. Although I vaguely remembered aspects of stuff from when I half-watched it when I was younger, I had no idea what was going to happen, or even who was going to survive, although I got a pretty good idea from my good old friends ‘internet’ and ‘curiosity’. I still cried when Anya died though. Especially when Xander tried to go back for her and all you could see was her lying dead in the foreground. . And unlike before the apocalypse of ’Graduation day’ Anya didn’t run away, she stayed and fought, and ended up dying saving Andrew’s life. The episode before, ‘End of days’ Andrew said he was scared and how he was going to die but Anya wouldn’t, but actually it was the other way round, and I find this really touching. I almost wish Anya had let Andrew die after the look on Xander’s face, although Andrew is my very favourite character except Spike. I already knew all about Spike’s death (damn curiosity) and Buffy telling him she loves him. But does she? Spike said she didn’t, but I think she did. Maybe its something to do with the whole cookie-dough metaphor thing. I don’t know, I think that was mainly for Angel and Buffy though.
I never really liked Angel, but I knew they couldn’t possibly have the last ever episode of Buffy without Angel showing up. It would be like killing off Willow or something. Because, although I don’t like to admit it, in the end Angel and Buffy are meant to be together. Its undeniable. Annoying, but undeniable. I think they did it quite well though, there was hope, but nothing definite. Also I quite liked Angel for once, he was quite funny, being all jealous ‘I had a soul first, before it was the cool thing to do’ it was kinda like the time was in ‘What’s my line pt 2’ when he was huddled in a corner of a cage as the light came in. aww. I almost wanted to hug him. Almost.
Its so weird watching the last ever episode just after watching an episode from the middle of the second series. Because when given the choice of spending all my money on the second series DVD or buying the second half on video for £2 (seriously!) and getting the third series on DVD instead, Its not a very hard choice to make. Thank god FX started showing Buffy, meaning I could be able to watch the first half without buying it, especially as the only actual decent episode is School Hard which I have on the Spike DVD, and although I liked Inca Mummy Girl, I’m sure I can live without it. I’d wanted to buy Series 7 ever since I’d watched Series 6 and decided I wasn’t gonna wait for a year for Homechoice to show us it on C1 like after Series 5, but I decided it would be clever to actually watch the first four series first. So I did, and it took a while, but I finally got my series 7 and it did not disappoint (although to some people apparently it did). Only I had to wait 2 days for FX to show ‘Ted’ so I could watch Chosen, so that it was officially the last episode of Buffy that I hadn’t watched, I’d watched. If that makes sense.
I think this episode was absolutely fantastic, it showed everything that’s great about BTVS, and is my favourite episode except, of course, ‘Once more with feeling’. The special effects, the character developments, the classic mix of action, drama and comedy that’s done so well in Buffy, this episode defiantly didn’t let me down.