Buffy 7x22 Chosen
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oyceterBuffy finale party was awesome! Many hours were spent reminiscing about Buffy, future spec and watching old episodes with T. and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hecatehatesthat. And mac and cheese was had by all. And it was good.
I can't really think of anything to say about the finale now. It's finally hit me, the overness of it all. Anya's dead. So me and T. watched Hell's Bells and we all thought much about Anya's finest moments.
I loved every bit of the finale, from Angel's whining about souls (hee!), to Buffy's cookie dough speech. I loved her giving her power over to every potential in the world so very very very much! What a way to end the series! And Willow's right... they didn't just save the world, they changed it.
If I didn't know about the Angel casting for next year, Spike would have killed me. "No you don't. But thanks for saying it." My poor boy!! He's so going to shanshu and taunt Angel -- "Someone wasn't worthy..." I want shanshu!Spike to cause angst and jealousy in Angel and to stand around the sidelines and be pissed about being human and non-powerful. And to make snarky comments about AI.
I love goddess!Willow.
I love the core Scooby moment and "The world is doomed."
I loved D&D in the middle of the apocalypse, and Xander lovingly patting sleeping Anya on the head.
I loved the Wood and Faith interaction and how he lived.
Poor Amanda!
Poor Anya! Now her Body speech is going to make me cry twice as much.
Awakening the potential in all the girls was absolutely perfect, a beautiful end to the series and a huge statement about the kind of Slayer Buffy is, and I loved her and Willow so very very very much for it.
And oh Spike...
And before people say stuff about him stealing Angel's fate... The entire thing reminded me of Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry (spoilers for that ahead), in which Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot are doomed to repeat their tragedy over and over. And this dashing blond prince Diarmuid, who's wonderfully playboy-like yet completely serious and competent, does something bright and shining and ridiculous, something completely true to his character, and takes Arthur's place in the battlefield and breaks the tragic cycle. This probably doesn't make any sense to anyone but me. But in a way this episode was all about choices. And it just seemed so fitting that Spike, our trickster character, who saved the world inadvertantly in S2, should be the one who wants to see how it ends. It just feels like something he would do, simply because he isn't heroic, he isn't the big champion guy all the rest of them are. He's just this snarky vampire who broke all the rules to get his soul back, and by doing that, enabled this. Going back to the Fionavar Tapestry -- they have Owein's Wild Hunt in it, which let the bad Sauron-like guy to enter the perfect world. But the Hunt allows choice as well, with evil being the price we paid for that. And the series in the end is resolved with a perfectly balanced character's free choice between good and evil. That's what I feel Spike is. As the trickster and as this figure, he embodies the choice between good and evil that all of us have, and so he frees Buffy and Angel from their destiny to be apart (maybe.. now it's up to them). He frees Angel from the prophecy. And he frees all of Sunnydale (and buries it, heh).
I'm not making any sense at all. But I'll rewatch tomorrow and hopefully have something better down.
hecatehatesthat. And mac and cheese was had by all. And it was good.I can't really think of anything to say about the finale now. It's finally hit me, the overness of it all. Anya's dead. So me and T. watched Hell's Bells and we all thought much about Anya's finest moments.
I loved every bit of the finale, from Angel's whining about souls (hee!), to Buffy's cookie dough speech. I loved her giving her power over to every potential in the world so very very very much! What a way to end the series! And Willow's right... they didn't just save the world, they changed it.
If I didn't know about the Angel casting for next year, Spike would have killed me. "No you don't. But thanks for saying it." My poor boy!! He's so going to shanshu and taunt Angel -- "Someone wasn't worthy..." I want shanshu!Spike to cause angst and jealousy in Angel and to stand around the sidelines and be pissed about being human and non-powerful. And to make snarky comments about AI.
I love goddess!Willow.
I love the core Scooby moment and "The world is doomed."
I loved D&D in the middle of the apocalypse, and Xander lovingly patting sleeping Anya on the head.
I loved the Wood and Faith interaction and how he lived.
Poor Amanda!
Poor Anya! Now her Body speech is going to make me cry twice as much.
Awakening the potential in all the girls was absolutely perfect, a beautiful end to the series and a huge statement about the kind of Slayer Buffy is, and I loved her and Willow so very very very much for it.
And oh Spike...
And before people say stuff about him stealing Angel's fate... The entire thing reminded me of Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry (spoilers for that ahead), in which Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot are doomed to repeat their tragedy over and over. And this dashing blond prince Diarmuid, who's wonderfully playboy-like yet completely serious and competent, does something bright and shining and ridiculous, something completely true to his character, and takes Arthur's place in the battlefield and breaks the tragic cycle. This probably doesn't make any sense to anyone but me. But in a way this episode was all about choices. And it just seemed so fitting that Spike, our trickster character, who saved the world inadvertantly in S2, should be the one who wants to see how it ends. It just feels like something he would do, simply because he isn't heroic, he isn't the big champion guy all the rest of them are. He's just this snarky vampire who broke all the rules to get his soul back, and by doing that, enabled this. Going back to the Fionavar Tapestry -- they have Owein's Wild Hunt in it, which let the bad Sauron-like guy to enter the perfect world. But the Hunt allows choice as well, with evil being the price we paid for that. And the series in the end is resolved with a perfectly balanced character's free choice between good and evil. That's what I feel Spike is. As the trickster and as this figure, he embodies the choice between good and evil that all of us have, and so he frees Buffy and Angel from their destiny to be apart (maybe.. now it's up to them). He frees Angel from the prophecy. And he frees all of Sunnydale (and buries it, heh).
I'm not making any sense at all. But I'll rewatch tomorrow and hopefully have something better down.
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Wed, May. 21st, 2003 04:18 pm (UTC)I love GGK's prose! It's absolutely beautiful. And I'm a great fan of how he twists and weaves in myths in his works and alternate histories as well. I had a hell of a time hunting down all of his Fionavar Tapestry a few years ago when it was out of print.