One poll or another

[beer_good_foamy]

Here's a rewatch-inspired poll, presented with no preamble.

[Poll #1854770]

Comments

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

I get that; while I do think "Chosen" is a far more hopeful ending - both for the survivors and for the story at large - s7 is the second weakest season of the show for me, and there are a lot of ways it could have been done better. And yes, I see that in "Not Fade Away" too. I guess my big problem with Buffy ending after s5 would be that... as I said somewhere else, I can picture Quentin Travers hearing of Buffy's death and muttering "Well, it certainly took her long enough. Next, please!" In the end, the events in Buffy wouldn't change the story at large, she'd be just another soldier drafted and sacrificed in a war she had no control over.

But yeah, as much as I love s6, there are times when I want to just hug the characters and tell them "You know, you could have just left her in the ground and moved on."

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

I remember when the spoilers were leaked for The Gift even before UPN started advertising that BtVS was moving to their channel and spoiled a lot of people, some fans were like, "How can the show continue without Buffy? Can there be a Buffy the Vampire Slayer without Buffy herself?" My thought was yes! That thought, of course, did not come from someone who worked in television, but I thought it could be done. And now that you mention it, there's the plotline for a S6 without Buffy-- Giles realizes that things don't have to be the same, the cycle can be broken. Maybe he talks to the Scoobies, and they try to get to the next Slayer before the Watchers Council. Maybe they start out the season with the same selfishness of replacing/replicating Buffy but then as they get to know the new Slayer, they realize just how wrong they were for doing that. By the end of the season, it sinks in-- Buffy is never coming back, and they have to move on. This is when the reality of grief would hit, and it would be heartbreaking but it would be a glorious payoff. Now, I'm thinking about how awesome that would have been and how Season Six pissed on everything I loved (and the musical episode will never make it worth it).

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Oh, wait, I just realized that the Slayer line didn't pass through Buffy anymore in S6. Buffy > Kendra > Faith > Next Slayer. Still, the Scoobies could have been proactive about the next Slayer if anything happened to Faith.