Darla's ending was perfect IMO. With Buffy it was another matter. There was no hint of SMG leaving the show which we knew was coming back, albeit on another channel, so for me that took a lot of the angst out of it. After all the show was called "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" so unless they planned to have the Buffybot run around for the rest of the series Buffy would somehow return. Now if she'd died at the end of S7 - that would've been far more impressive and heartwrenching IMO. Then if they wanted to make a BtVS movie or comic series they could always spend the first 10 minutes or the first issue doing a variation of "Bargaining" and off the new version would go.
Heh. I keep wondering what it must have been like to follow the show when it was on the air - I started catching up just about the same time the last few episodes were airing.
I'm pretty happy they ended up not killing Buffy off in the finale, though. I want her to live.
Well it was always implied that Slayers lived short lives and were considered expendable (as in the fanfic 6 Thousand Miles (http://speakr2customrs.livejournal.com/282192.html)); that a short life was the price of having Slayer powers. If she'd died at the end we would truly have mourned instead of waiting to see what ME would come up with. Oh well we have what we have.
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I'm pretty happy they ended up not killing Buffy off in the finale, though. I want her to live.
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