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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vocenoctum" data-source="post: 950239" data-attributes="member: 2477">Against Adam, they had a powerful spell that they thought would work.Against Glory they had a plan involving a robot and a god hammer. (the portal opening was unprepared for, and I don't want to argue the lack of logic in the whole Summers thing again, so I'll leave it there.)Willow wasn't really that hard, they just had to get there.The problem isn't unforseen solutions or wildcards. The problem is, everything that they knew up to the point of entering the hellmouth pointed to them failing and dying.Were they counting on ubervamps falling so easily? I'm hoping they weren't counting on Buffy's ability to be lethally stabbed and then not show the effects 5 minutes later.Why wasn't the Slayer Spell cast before hand?(and yes, why were the upper levels defended in three spots instead of one choke point?)Besides, the Hellmouth was closed again. They had to reopen it. And, where was the big tentecaled monster! did the uber vamps eat it?They showed the ep last night where Buffy kills the first Uber vamp. The girl doesn't know how to dodge at all, does she? That's why the Caleb Wirefu scene was so important, she finally figured out her quickened reflexes could be used for something other than charging ever faster at certain death!Now if she's learned how stealth works, and scouted out the hell mouth ahead of time, that might be something. Instead, they open the gateway (letting all kinds of evil through, to be held off by Anya and Andrew...) and stand there waiting while Willow starts the spell.I liked parts of the finale, but it really was one of the worst season finales so far. The fact that it was the series finale as well makes that worse for me.But, the main thing for me is the plot holes. The stupid axe, the stupid amulet, the lack of any real plan by the First or The Slayers. The lack of even the most basic attempt to follow up on the plotpoints dropped haphazardly throughout the season... (Joyce, the Vulnerability to the Line, etc.)And remember, the reason those of us complaining are doing so is because we have a large investment in the series. We've been watching it for quite a while, and have finally arrived at the end, only to be disappointed by it.</blockquote>

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