Season Finale Thoughts *SPOILERS*

[jeepy91@xxxxxxx]

Has it been 22 episodes already? It seems to have flown by. Another 4 
months of waiting it out.

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Well honestly I don't know what to say. I was spoiled, and while I still 
hoped there might be something we were missing, I knew what was coming. And 
you know what, it didn't even prepare me for the total and utter crap that 
happened tonight. I'm not going to go into details, not gonna break down 
scenes like Dan does, not gonna hit on what I liked and what I didn't like. 
Because honestly, I can't believe that was an episode of Buffy.

Everything, everything they have built in the past 6 years, all the 
relationships, all the characters,all the faith I had in Joss and the writing 
staff, it went out the window tonight. What they did to Willow, there's one 
term for it. 

Character assasination.

Pure and simple. All season we've heard Buffy moan and groan about hating 
this world, how hard it is just to be in the world. And we finally thought 
she had her epiphany in 'Normal Again'. Guess not.

Killing Tara, killing Katrina, killing Warren.

And the most important thing of all.

Making Willow evil.

Everything was a plot device to make Buffy Buffy again. And its the most 
ridiculous and stupid thing I've seen in a long time.

And lets not even get me started on the fact that for 2 hours Willow was 
trying to kill everything, everyone she loved. And Xander says I love you 
three times and everything is alright? Bullshit.

>From a shipper standpoint I dont think it gets any worse than what happened 
in this episode. Sure Buffy said that she was not protecting the nerds, she 
was trying to save Willow. And a couple of times I actually felt like that 
might be the case. But when they started beating on each other, I just don't 
know how they can ever fix the damage that caused.

The way Willow talked to her, it was so cold, so venemous, and it chilled me 
to the core. And just because Giles little trojan horse did its job, Willow 
still did all those things, she still murdered Warren, she still tried to 
kill Buffy and everybody else. And she would have most certainly killed Dawn 
if Buffy wouldn't have shown up.

So my question is, how in the hell do we go into next season and actually 
like Willow? How can we watch her interact with the gang, be a part of that 
gang, after seeing tonight's episode?

I'm willing to watch the season premiere and see what happens, but if they 
try and pick up where this left off, and make it like everything is just 
peachy. Well it just will be downright stupid. 

Oh, and one last thing, I swear, if they try and pair Buffy and William next 
season, they can count me out. Cuz you know Spike doesn't really exist 
anymore, if he's souled, than he's not Spike, he's William. So Joss and 
company don't just destroy our ship, they still the initials of it too.

And ok, yes, I might sound melodramatic here but..................

Hated it more than I think I've hated anything.

Casandra
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Buffy:"I could wrestle naked in grease for a living and still be cleaner than 
after a shift at the Doublemeat."
Willow:"Plus, I'd visit you at work every single day."
-'Normal Again' Shooting Script


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