Dawn explained why Miss Kitty Fantastico was never seen again. I don’t want to repeat it here, for I might offend some people.
ThhhhhhhWAP!
MEOW!!!
Spoiler:
[spoiler]Forgive my ignorance because I haven’t seen most of this seen of Buffy. However, I’ve been tuning in to see how it ends.
About the last glimpse of Spike. He was standing right next to the OtherBuffy. I’m so confused. I thought the OtherBuffy and Caleb merged to make him stronger in that beam of light thing. Did they split again? I also wondered how she could be standing next to Spike, calling the real Buffy a bitch, and Spike doesn’t seem surprised that she’s there. Has he known about her all along? Does he think she’s the First? IS she the First? Because frankly I’d be more concerned that a primordial evil thing is standing next to me than what my sweetie is doing with her ex-lover. Or does this mean that Spike is in cahoots with the other side and he’s been fooling the real Buffy? What the hell?
Other comments:
Dawn overpowers Xander. Geesh, can they emasculate Xander’s character anymore? He can’t even kidnap a human girl who weighs half of what he does.
Someone needs to kill all the slayers-in-training now. They are annoying and taking up too much screen time.
Sooo glad to see the Buffy/Angel reunion. Wished I hadn’t known in advance that Boreanaz was going to appear on this episode. It would have been for him to appear out of nowhere like a knight in shining armor, like Giles did last season with Witchy Willow. I’ve always wanted them reunited, those crazy star-crossed kids. (Okay, neither of them is looking much like kids anymore. Is it TOO much to ask that the actors don’t show their age?) Felt sorry for Spike. Poor bloke. He’s definitely going to be shirty after this. [/spoiler]
Dammit, sometimes, just SOMETIMES I wish we could edit posts.
I liked it - best line…
“I’ve done things with you I can’t spell.”
Tell me. I must have missed it. Did she say it when looking through the car? What happened?
I liked the things Anya said at the hospital. Not quite as good as her “No more fruit punch” speech from “The Body”, but Andrew was right: it was kinda beautiful.
(Slight Hijack: I met Tom Lenk on Sunday. But all I could do was make a few vowel sounds, and then I had to go away. 
Oh, and James Marsters was cool too.)
Mahaloth, it was while Dawn and Xander were looking through the car.
Not for the easily offended:
“I told, you, I don’t leave crossbows lying around all willy-nilly… not after that time with Miss Kitty Fantastico.” 
Slight nitpick - TFEBuffy said, “That bitch.” in Spike’s ear. Slight difference.
How the hell does one punch from Angel send a being infused with the power of TFE flying across the room? Even Buffy with the UberAxe as unable to do that.
Marsters had said the ending will ‘piss some people off’. But if we know he’s signed on to be on Angel, then Spike probably doesn’t die. What else then? (I don’t really want to know, I’m just speculating.)
In the preview for next week’s episode it looked like Spike was wearing a pendant necklace, which looked like the amulet Angel received from Lilah last week.
So you may be on to something, Mahaloth.
If Spike gets the shanshu meant for Angel, Angel’s gonna be soooo pissed!
I will here, again, repeat my (unspoiled) prediction for next week: All the slayers-in-training will somehow be made into real Slayers, and there will no longer be a single “chosen one.”
What do I get if I’m right?
** PunditLisa**, read below:
The Buffy next to Spike WAS The First. It has the ability to mimick any person who has died. Buffy has died, so it can look like Buffy. The First has talked to Spike before (it tortured him for a while) so he is fully aware of it, and that is why he wasn’t surpised that OtherBufy was there. Also, I don’t think that the merging with Caleb was permanent, seeing as it was implied it had done it a few times before.
Still showing on the West Coast, so spoiler box:
Much better episode, better pacing and story flow. Several touching moments that seemed to mean something; Faith and Buffy, Buffy and Xander, Giles and Willow. But frankly, the entire scene with Anya and Andrew was pointless, and the subplot of Dawn and Xander wasn’t worth it.
I agree that the ancient women who put the scythe there was just random exposition. They could have left it out and it wouldn’t have mattered. But Caleb’s arrival to that scene was perfect. As was Angel’s later on. BTW, why didn’t Spike intervene? Did he arrive too late?
At this point, I hope they drop the SIT, figure out a nice resolution for Anya and Xander (they’re my favorites) and figure out a way for Buffy to end this all and have a normal life.
Or die for good. Either way I’ll be happy.
I still don’t get the Spike/Buffy chemistry. It all feels empty to me, she’s much better with Angel.
Alright, it’s aired on the West Coast.
I’ve had something like six weeks to come to grips with the kiss. Like I mentioned before, I had reached acceptance. I wasn’t even mad anymore. I thought I had moved on. I thought I was in a good place.
I thought wrong.
I feel like I’ve eaten rancid beef or something.
Anywho, love Spike, love Anya, love Andrew, don’t hate Xander, Dawn made me laugh, Willow and Giles…well, I hated them less at any rate. I’m very sad. I’ve had my ups and downs with the show, but the fact remains, next week is the end and I don’t want to see it go. I’m happy that Spike will be on ANgel next year so I can officially switch to a Spike/Wes ship, and I’ll be relieved the roller-coaster ride that is Spuffy will be over (I doubt very much SMG will make guest appearances)…but even when I hate them all, I still love them.
Thank God for fanfic, eh?
Nah, the kiss felt right. There’s something about Buffy/Spike that just sits all wrong, especially when put next to a Buffy/Angel kiss. Angel is a champion, Spike just wants to be one.
Telemark I honestly don’t get the B/A ship at all. I didn’t when I first started watching (Pre-Spike adoration), I didn’t during the “Like Spike, Pre-Shipping” phase, and I don’t now. To me, he is the jerky guy who left her for her “own good”, killed Jenny Calender, and treated her like a child. Also, he’s bloody stupid and his hair sticks straight up. 
I think that
he was doing the “I’m trying to be the sensitive lover, respecting your boundaries, but I can’t quite pull it off” thing. In other words, I think he couldn’t stop from going with her, despite the fact that she clearly wanted some alone time and was lurking in the shadows in case she needed him. Unfortunately, Angel got there first and then Spike couldn’t step out without ceding the moral high ground (“you kissed him!” “oh yeah? Well you followed me!”)
I liked the ep.
I’m with Apos. While I admit I wasn’t able to give this episode my full attention, I don’t understand how they found that tomb. Maybe it was explained, but I didn’t hear it. Last I heard was Giles / Willow trying to research the axe, and then Buffy just waltzes down there.
I liked the Spike / Buffy scene, but the ending felt contrived. It’s too much of a cliche when two people who shouldn’t really be kissing are seen by someone who will definitely take it the wrong way.
A decent episode until the Old Wise Woman…then it just crapped out for a few minutes… I liked the fight… I liked Angel’s calvary routine… I liked that they kissed…I immediately thought of “Still my girl?” “Always”.
I really liked how they tried to get across that Buffy/Willow/Xander were moving back towards normalcy.
I liked Anya and Andrew’s scenes but I felt it was a little too flirty between them when they have established Andrew’s homosexuality pretty clearly. I thought for sure they would get attacked in the hosptial… maybe not by Bringers or Turakahns but maybe a crazed human screaming “From beneath you it devours!”
My only problems were:
No scene between Xander and Anya. Ummm Xander is leaving leaving… under the impression that he isn’t coming back soon…and we don’t see him say goodbye to his love?
Buffy and Spike… I’m so sick of this shit… And having read that Salon.com article that hits why Spike is the reason the show hasn’t been as good for the last few seasons.
Wise Old Woman giving really terrible exposition.
And Wood was nowhere to be seen… What up with that?
pepper, I’m not sure why Buffy/Angel feels right to me, but it just does. There’s a bit of the destiny thing, plus I really can’t shake the image of Spike as a love-struck puppydog. Angel felt much more like Buffy’s equal. Spike is just a footnote in the Buffy-verse.
I much prefer the “poofy hair-gel” speach Spike to his current character. Oh well, different squids for different kids. They can still make a good ending out of this. It’ll be very interesting to see how Spike makes it out to LA. Maybe he’ll be a bad guy, tormented by losing Buffy. That’d work better than him joining with Angel Investigations (I hate the “Fang Gang” name).
Telemark that may be the basic difference–the Destiny thing. One of the reasons I like the idea of Spuffy is because it’s not fate, it’s not destiny, it’s not supposed to happen at all. “This, with you, it’s wrong. I know it.” I know it too. But well, I can’t help but cheer for the underdog.
I don’t ship – and if I did, honestly, I’d ship for Faingel – but B/A have always struck me as better suited emotionally than B/S. Spuffy have great sexual chemistry, and I wanted them to explore that territory – but I wasn’t so excited to see it turn into the Spike solo torchbearing society.
To me, Spike’s the selfish . . . thing . . . who did his damndest to pull Buffy away from her friends and to the dark side, most memorably in the ghastly scene in the Bronze where he’s taking her from behind and telling her she belongs in the dark with him. Angel may not be a model romantic partner, but he was always attracted to what was best in Buffy, not what was worst in her. And I’m tired of the last two seasons wallowing in the latter.
That said, I don’t blame Spike, who used to be a great, compelling character. I blame show creators who couldn’t figure out what to do with the rich cocktail of emotions they’d whipped together.