Buffy 4/28 - SPOILERS

[uv23]

Well no one else started the thread so I'll do it.

I can't tell you how satisfied my girlfriend and I were to finally see Buffy get whats been coming to her for the entire season. Whining and complaining and commanding and marching around like she's the Power's gift to mankind (well she is, but still...)

Now that being said, it seems like the group admonishing came a bit too fast and hard - almost unnaturally.

 

[myrdden]

I am slow on the draw...

I thought the re-buff of Buffy was quick too. But, I think it illustrates the stress everyone is under and, let's face it, Buffy has been pretty indifferent towards everyone except Spike lately. (A result of her depending on him for emotional support since her resurrection perhaps?)

I thought the ending of the episode was lame (I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it) and seemed very out of place. With only three episodes remaining, I have no idead how this season (series perhaps?) will end.

Myrdden

 

[uv23]

Yeah Buffy has really fallen flat for me. A big reason for it is the sheer number of reruns we've had to endure. Angel keeps driving forward, new episodes every week sucking us in deeper. I've become very emotionally detached from Buffy because of its sluggish pace. Too many filler episodes and two few that push the storyline forward. Hopefully the season/series won't end on the same weak note.

 

[myrdden]

Yeah Buffy has really fallen flat for me. A big reason for it is the sheer number of reruns we've had to endure.

Ain't that the truth.

Myrdden

 

[KnowTheToe]

Yeah Buffy has really fallen flat for me. A big reason for it is the sheer number of reruns we've had to endure. Angel keeps driving forward, new episodes every week sucking us in deeper. I've become very emotionally detached from Buffy because of its sluggish pace. Too many filler episodes and two few that push the storyline forward. Hopefully the season/series won't end on the same weak note.

This happens to me every season with Buffy and I end up missing episodes because I don't care enough to research when new episodes are coming and then don't care anymore. I am personaly glad to see it end by its own choosing, at least the fans will get some closure.

 

[Crothian]

It was a good episode, but Buffy did not deserve it. Anya's point on Buffy not earning her position applies to everyone in that room with abilitiews except Anya and Willow. Willow and Xander both seemed like they were back in the first two seasons when Buffy would spat how she needed to do things alone. You'd think her friends would be a little more supportive no matter what the circumstances. But they had been building to it for a while now.

 

[Richards]

Yeah, it looks like Buffy got "voted off the island."

Anybody else thinking that there's some kind of a "Slayer only" superweapon of some sort hidden at that church that Spike and Andrew checked out at the end? I'm thinking something like a Holy Avenger that does mega-damage to any evil person that tries wielding it (which might explain why Caleb didn't take it or destroy it).

Johnathan

 

[Dr Midnight]

I filled in my own Andrew line, after he kicked the monk: "Did you see that?! I was totally Neo!"

I didn't really like this one too much. After all the speeches the slayers-to-be (and we) have had to sit through, you'd think they'd at least have respect for what Buffy is and can do. That they'd go for Faith really showed me that they haven't been learning. Man am I sick of the entire slayers story arc... too bad it's the last. I want my lean, hungry team of Giles, Willow, Xander, and Buffy back... with Andrew thrown in because everything he says just makes me giggle and twitter.

 

[myrdden]

It was a good episode, but Buffy did not deserve it.

I think she deserved the backlash - but not the exile. How does kicking Buffy out do anything postive for their position? Makes one wonder where this arc is heading.

Myrdden

 

[Endur]

Black Magic Exile

I assumed the exile was caused by Black Magic; Caleb said something about it earlier in that wierd conversation he had. No way anybody rational would have done what they did.

I knew it when Xander and Willow chimed in. From anybody else, I would have understood it. But those two characters have always stood by Buffy, so their actions were inconceivable. Even with everything Xander has been through, betrayal ... never.

Holy Avenger? I'm not sure, but its definitely something only Buffy can wield.