- Hi Angel ... thanks for the cool new toy ... bye Angel ...
- Fond farewells can be mushy but I wouldn't have it any other way. There were plenty throughout - the Scoobies and Giles talking about shopping just before the big battle, Faith and Robin's banter, Buffy and Spike's calm-before-the-storm moments. All good stuff.
- The übervamps attack was an effective bit of LOTR-esque trickery.
- We like White Willow better than Black Willow ... separated at birth from Galadriel was she?
- Anya's death was shockingly brutal ... it seemed to jar a bit, especially with the cut-to of her lying in the rubble.
- Deus ex machina was in full effect - witness Spike's chunky medallion and Willow's spell - but it seemed to work okay in the context of the story (my cop-out alarm only went off a little bit).
- "Welcome to Sunnydale" ... a large Californian crater. Cute touch.
The best scene was, of course, saved until the very last and ended off-cadence, a BTVS hallmark. With the gang chirping in the background "what are we going to do now?", we zoom in on Buffy who cracks the hugest smile we've seen in a long time, cue credits. "Anything I bloody want", I thought to myself. Brilliant.
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