Buffy 7x22 Chosen
Added 2025-04-27 20:55:53 +0000 UTCWell, this is it. Our Buffy journey has come to an end... This is such a bittersweet moment for me and it fills me with so much sadness but also happiness, but also sadness. It really is mixed feelings. There's so much more I still want and need to know. I'm not done yet. I feel like I'm cookie dough, not quite ready!
I could have easily watched Buffy for another 7 seasons. It has meant so much to me, all of the characters, the stories, and also everyone here. All of your love and support over the years has been phenomenal and I cannot thank you enough.
It has been one incredible journey. Thank you for joining me in the passenger seat and I am so grateful to have had you here. Knowing that I am not alone with these feelings has been such a huge comfort for me... Thank you 💜
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Comments
Well what a journey. An episode that felt like Creator-Saves-By-Finale which is true but is unfair were used as a judgement on the rest of season 7. I like Chosen's structure: how it begins with season 7's central story, resolving Caleb, before going into The Final War. The episode is loaded with callbacks, (Angel himself, that core group, Giles with patrenal pride, Spike-as-hero), in a way that feels earned. Great stuff. Thanks for sharing. I really liked CommodoreLezmo's comment on 'why Anya'. Writers kill characters because they like to tell about high stakes: putting a little hurt their audiences. The theory might be a sort of reminder about death as ever present and we should always be thinking about it in relation to our life, and those of people around us. Because life can be terrific, and when it is who wants thoughts of death? Anya died to convey shock in the story. The girl who ran from the apocalypses, stopping. The death of Spike is easier to take. He's had a long run and his character has always expressed someone who'll go down fighting. We were prepared for that, but not for Anya's departure. Fucking death! Strongly suggest you leave off Buffy research until Angel is done. Many spoilers to be ruining. Research can wait for those Buffy-verse video essays you wanted to make.
Andy Luke
2025-04-30 21:45:56 +0000 UTCThank you for reacting to the show! Can't believe you've finished it! Like you I was confused "why Anya" initially too, but now I do think Anya dying was fitting for her character development. She died saving a human, not just that but a male who had committed a crime worthy of vengeance. Re-watching Andrew teasing Anya that she loves humans in the previous episode hits differently a second time. Also when D'Hoffryn reverses the wish and gives the from beneath you it devours warning, I always wondered if he somehow knew she specifically would die before the end. But then he sent demons to kill her in a subsequent episode and I kind of dismissed my initial feelings there. She was such a great character! Hope your okay and not suffering post-Buffy blues.
CommodoreLezmo
2025-04-28 19:29:53 +0000 UTCTrey, it's been magical... There are so many things I still think about, so many of the quotes over the seasons that I still say! (weirdly, my main quote that I say is a garbled mess of what Xander says when he's eating the Doublemeat Palace burger... First you say it's CAT) What a journey 💜
Juliette Gaming
2025-04-27 21:22:43 +0000 UTC😭😭😭😭 I love this thought!! Every girl who could have the power, will have the power. This thought has given me so much strength!!
Juliette Gaming
2025-04-27 21:21:17 +0000 UTCThanks for the journey, Juliette. And as a reward for your effort... you're also one of the official chosen potentials now! Because every girl who could have the power, will have the power. Are you ready to be strong?
Kurt VC
2025-04-27 21:13:37 +0000 UTCFirst off, congrats on reaching the end! It’s a show that, for all the occasional storyline faults, has really stood the test of time! It’s just beautiful! Thank you for sharing your viewing experience with us!
Trey Moore
2025-04-27 21:13:35 +0000 UTC
