. Hope is what Season Six and Seven lacked, and without hope, there's no reason to fight. Hope is probably why Angel's finale worked better than "Chosen" for me as well. ...
Really? That's interesting. I would have said that Chosen is much more "hopeful" than Not Fade Away.
Not Fade Away was more hopeful to me because it had the message of "Even if we die in this battle, somebody out there is going to carry on. We're going to give it everything we have. Let's go to work." However (and this may be because I am extremely cynical), Chosen's ending left me extremely disheartened. It's like, "Oh, hey, a bunch of people just died unnecessarily, and we've painted roving targets for supernatural evil on hundreds of girls and women worldwide that will have no idea what's happening! At least Buffy has a chance to be 'normal' and gets to smile. Let's talk about the mall!" It was really the execution of Chosen that failed for me on multiple levels. On one level, I know that the scene is supposed to be hopeful (and that the mall talk is not supposed to be as glib as it came across), but due to the way lines were said, the direction taken with the final scene, and other elements of the episode (including the faux-powerment of all the Potentials), I was left feeling rather cold by the whole affair. These are my interpretations and reactions, of course.
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Really? That's interesting. I would have said that Chosen is much more "hopeful" than Not Fade Away.
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