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Buffy Series Finale Tonight
roothog writes "I just finished watching the series finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, an episode that sparks with the writing of Joss Whedon. Strangely, there weren't any commercials :). One of the best written shows on television comes to an end tonight in North America. A very accurate script summary is available for any spoiler-seekers. I'd suggest skipping the spoilers: it's worth the wait...for a season 7 episode..."
Full script here: part one and part two. Even mentions TROGDOR, the BURNINATOR! :-)
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You may have already seen it. At least, in Alberta, it was on last night.
Here's a no-spoiler summary: the ending doesn't suck. I really mean that. I hate nothing worse than something that ends poorly, be it a book or a movie or a television show, because it tends to ruin all the good things that went before. This is an ending worthy of Buffy.
Nah, I don't think so. While I think there've been a number of reasonably attractive women over the years on the show, they're not really doing much for me. Personally, I enjoy the writing and the consistent mythos for the world they build. Plus, there have been a handful of episodes that stand singly as just great works of television. May not be for you, but it definitely has its merits.
What's missing on Sky/BBC?
Sky don't cut it, AFAIK. BBC do for the Thursday showing (6.45pm) but show it uncut on Friday night.
Of course C4 had the bright idea of show Angel at 6pm (think that's right), which is more violent. The result was often amusing, and invariably baffling. The endings (where the fights normally are) would become a rapid succession of cuts. Perhaps that's what the poster had in mind?
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An ignorant comment, pure and simple. If people knew how many prestigious awards the show has been nominate for and how many critical raves Buffy gets or read any of the background articles written about the writers and the show in some fairly august places (e.g., the NYT's) they might be less prone to embassing themselves with such drivel.
It is by coff... er, will, alone I set my mind in motion...
And now we're to believe that a TV show, from the Dubbya-Bee no less, about a teeny bopper girl who hunts boogeymans is somehow the 'best written show' on television? It's a fucking live action Scooby Doo, with Sarah Michelle Gellar stepping in to play the dog.
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It isn't about SMG. I would even say she was almost expendible, except for being the title character, so... Anyway, no it wasn't SMG. Not that I have anything against her, but I think Xander and Willow and Cordelia were all portrayed by better actors than Buffy.
One thing I liked was that it was a horror show, and there aren't really many of those. Well, horror with some humor added. Later it became just another dreary drama, with a vague horror backdrop.
WBut back to the humor... Here, have a sampling of lines:
Cordelia: "Oh, I'm not saying that we should kill a teacher every day just so I can lose weight. I'm just saying, when tragedy strikes we have to look on the bright side, y'know? Like how even used Mercedes still have leather seats." [How I loved to hate Cordelia. Unfortunately, she starts to become a "person" and thereby loses the appeal. I watched a few episodes of "Angel" and it was unbearable. What a waste.]
Anya: "Look, I know you find me attractive; I've seen you looking at my breasts."
Xander: "Nothing personal, but when a guy does that, it just means his eyes are open."
Buffy: "Sorry, but I'm an old fashioned gal. I was raised to believe that men dig up the corpses and the women have the babies."
Buffy: "So something ripped him open and ate out his insides?"
Willow: "Like an Oreo cookie. Well, except for, you know, without the chocolatey cookie goodness."
Principle Snyder: "There are things I will not tolerate: students loitering on campus after school, horrible murders with hearts being removed, and also smoking."
Spike: "You were there? Oh, please! If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock. I was actually at Woodstock. That was a weird gig. I fed off a flower person, and I spent the next six hours watching my hand move."
Buffy: "Vampires are creeps."
Giles: "Yes, that's why one slays them."
Buffy: "I mean, people are perfectly happy getting along, and then vampires come, and they run around and they kill people, and they take over your whole house, they start making these stupid little mini-pizzas, and everyone's like, 'I like your mini-pizzas,' but I'm telling you, I am---"
Giles: "Uh, Buffy, I believe the subtext here is rapidly becoming, uh, text."
Cordelia: "But she's like this superman. Shouldn't there be different rules for her?"
Willow: "Sure, in a fascist society."
Cordelia: "Right! Why can't we have one of those?"
Spike: "I'm gonna do what I should've done in the first place. I'll find her, wherever she is, tie her up, and torture her until she likes me again."
The show was perverted, and I like perverted stuff.
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Joss answered answered reader's questions in this feature in today's Times online.
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This article became relevent when Giles, Andrew, and one of the Jr Slayers were playing a little DnD and were confronted by Trogdor the Burninator!
Hilarious!