Post by Linda on Jul 24, 2005 4:49:27 GMT -5
Hi all!
Thanks for posting all the insightful comments!
Can I just mention that at the time I was watching Season 7 BtVS, I was completely unspoiled? No casting news, no previews, nuthin'. (No UPN affilate here in Hawaii meant that the previews were omitted from the end credits by the local station that picked up the show. I was so grateful they even broadcast Buffy that I didn't feel inclined to gripe about the previews.)
I was soooo shocked when they went from stabbed-in-the-heart Anya to a commercial break(?!) and then to what was probably the happiest moment of her life -- and another Joss song (yay! and *sniffle*) And then back again to her teary supposed-corpse. I felt much relief at her first gasping breath. Much, much relief. Because her death at Buffy's hands would have turned the series AtS dark, IMO. And AtS was enough Dark all on its own, thank you very much.
The Scooby fight, while painful, was substantive, revealing and chock full of continuity goodness. (Yay! for writers who are alsogeeks fans like us!)
Funny, funny flashbacks.
And while this was Anya and Xander's episode (thank you, Rob, for your Xander illuminations! Eeetah! about Xander's maturity), I just wanted to mention I loved Willow's part in this episode, too. She went from school geek to uber witch to Anya-intervener to not-quite-accepted Scooby to the one with the most helpful idea. Though it was pretty darned risky -- D'hoffryn may be powerful but he's not on the side of good.
Eetah with KMInfinity and Karen that Anya's real death at the end of the series makes this episode painful. But IMO, the most painful thing was that she was sadly under-represented from here on out. Andrew may have been annoying, but I'm grateful that he helped to draw Anya out in the end. I mean: Andrew: "You love humans." Anya: "I do not! And I'll kill you if you tell anyone!" And then the wheelchair fight. ;D And "Nobody cares, you little monkey."
Linda, this one was a well-rounded episode, though, despite the relative lack of Spike and Dawn
Thanks for posting all the insightful comments!
Can I just mention that at the time I was watching Season 7 BtVS, I was completely unspoiled? No casting news, no previews, nuthin'. (No UPN affilate here in Hawaii meant that the previews were omitted from the end credits by the local station that picked up the show. I was so grateful they even broadcast Buffy that I didn't feel inclined to gripe about the previews.)
I was soooo shocked when they went from stabbed-in-the-heart Anya to a commercial break(?!) and then to what was probably the happiest moment of her life -- and another Joss song (yay! and *sniffle*) And then back again to her teary supposed-corpse. I felt much relief at her first gasping breath. Much, much relief. Because her death at Buffy's hands would have turned the series AtS dark, IMO. And AtS was enough Dark all on its own, thank you very much.
The Scooby fight, while painful, was substantive, revealing and chock full of continuity goodness. (Yay! for writers who are also
Funny, funny flashbacks.
And while this was Anya and Xander's episode (thank you, Rob, for your Xander illuminations! Eeetah! about Xander's maturity), I just wanted to mention I loved Willow's part in this episode, too. She went from school geek to uber witch to Anya-intervener to not-quite-accepted Scooby to the one with the most helpful idea. Though it was pretty darned risky -- D'hoffryn may be powerful but he's not on the side of good.
Eetah with KMInfinity and Karen that Anya's real death at the end of the series makes this episode painful. But IMO, the most painful thing was that she was sadly under-represented from here on out. Andrew may have been annoying, but I'm grateful that he helped to draw Anya out in the end. I mean: Andrew: "You love humans." Anya: "I do not! And I'll kill you if you tell anyone!" And then the wheelchair fight. ;D And "Nobody cares, you little monkey."
Linda, this one was a well-rounded episode, though, despite the relative lack of Spike and Dawn