Well, that's finally over

[avram]

OK, that wasn’t too bad. I mean, the whole season’s been a disappointment, but at least the last episode wasn’t any more of a disappointment. A few nice bits, but mostly just stuff that wasn’t an adequate payoff for seven years of buildup.

So, what exactly was that whole deal with Joyce and Dawn and “she won’t choose you”? What was so important about it that Joyce had to come all the way from the afterlife, struggling against a demon, to warn Dawn about it? (And no, I don’t believe it was the First disguised as Joyce.)

Why did Willow have to wait till the last minute to cast that spell activating all the Slayers? Couldn’t she have cast it the night before, so they’d be going in knowing it had worked? Yeah, it’s more dramatic this way, but it’s also bad planning by supposedly smart characters.

Hm, this’ll make it tough for Spike to show up on Angel next season. Unless that was disinformation from Joss.

I loved the D&D scene. I wonder if Giles played D&D when he was younger. And the scene with Faith and Wood was good. “I’m prettier than you.”

OK, now we know why they had that scene with Anya and Andrew last week — so anyone but Xander would care that she died.

Ah, so the seal was still closed. So where did those three übervamps come from that we saw last week?

cadhla has just reminded me why it means something that Anya died. I don’t know how I forgot, given last week’s dialog with Andrew.