From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V3 #94 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Monday, May 28 2001 Volume 03 : Number 094 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: b/gift ["Susan Kroupa" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 10:46:52 -0700 From: "Susan Kroupa" Subject: Re: b/gift I agree that Buffy's blood replacing Dawn's is the weakest part of the last episode, and since it determines the ending, it reduces the emotional impact. I'll admit to being in tears at the end--as much from the reaction of Buffy's friends to her death as from the death itself--but at the same time part of me was saying "What???" I just saw the end of "Becoming" again--a friend was watching it on our TV-- and I was struck by how much better that ending worked, partly (I think) because Whedon spent a little more time at the end to give the watcher time to absorb what had happened, partly because the whole setup was superior. But it's hard to do something with the surprise, genius, and impact of "Becoming" more than once in a series, and I think that Whedon may never match that again, except, possibly, in the last ep of the show. That said, I liked this season better than last, and found that even with its flaws I liked the finale better than the (yawn) one with Adam. (I think Joss missed his real story last season. He should have expanded the Faith/Buffy switch and turned that into the finale. Every episode with Faith had ten times the emotional wallop than the ones about Adam, and he passed over Faith's realization that she is bad (in the church scene) too quickly to get the full effect. And even so, I consider the last Buffy/Faith ep the best one of that season.) Sue - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 4:54 PM Subject: Re: b/gift > Donald, every word you wrote speaks for my reaction to the ep as well. > Thanks for saving me the type to type it up. ;-) > > It wasn't the falling issue so much as the not-making-sense issue... > Buffy's falling stops Dawn from bleeding? Huh? > > It could have been a great series ender, though. The way it unified a lot > of series-long threads. "Previously on BUFFY" starting with the premiere. > > And what was maybe the best part of the ep, for me, the rest of you guys > didn't even see. That was the guys from the local WB affiliate having a > "funeral" during each commercial break ("Pay no attention to the slides and > swingset you see behind us! This is a cemetery!") because this was the end > of BUFFY on their station. After the final shot, it cut to them standing in > front of their own BUFFY headstone, with an inscription something like "RIP, > BUFFY on the WB." > > Gayle ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V3 #94 ****************************