[Stings]

I did a quick ctrl+f for jinx and I didn't see it mention him dieing anywhere.

[retired_xs2khizar]

I don't recall Glory killing any of her minions at all. There's the screaming heard in Intervention, as mentioned above, but no snapping of necks iirc.

I watched The Weight Of The World last night. I enjoy the bits involving Willow being inside Buffy's head, and Spike's scenes of course, but not so keen on the Glory-Ben-Dawn stuff. I guess I just don't like Glory full-stop, she's never been a convincing big bad for me.

The Gift next :cool:, then on to S6.

[retired_ingallsh]

SPIKE: Yeah. Okay. The key. Here's the thing...
SPIKE: It's that guy... on TV ... what's his name?
GLORY: (frowns) On the television?
SPIKE: That show ... the prize show ... where they guess what stuff cost?
MURK: The Price Is Right?
JINX: Oh, Bob Barker!
MURK: We will bring you Bob Barker! We will bring you the limp and beaten body of Bob Bark-
GLORY: (jumps up) It is not Bob Barker, scabby morons!

:cool:

[retired_katie14]

Finished off the series last night.

Like I said earlier the Glory / Ben merging doesn’t work well because we haven’t seen enough of either. If we had learned more about Ben it might have been a big shock to have him team up with Glory but as it stands you don’t really care.

I never really liked the mind sequences. The point it builds up to is Buffy having a single moment where she thinks about quitting which doesn’t need such a big explanation.

As for The Gift I found it more emotional this time round (although I still wasn’t blubbing like Serps). All of the main characters are on top form and get their fair share of screen time. Plus for a change once the dimensions merge we see some decent looking demons rather than the poor ones we’re accustomed to.

It also has the utterly utterly utterly awesome start sequence with the run down on all the previous series.

[retired_boy_0429]

Originally posted by Neil Purvis:
His last appearance is in Tough Lough, just after Intervention.

Bah, another beautiful theory slain by an ugly fact.

[Stings]

IMDb has his last appearance down as The Gift. I still can't find anything about him leaving or dieing though.

[retired_katie14]

Yeah I checked on there but he doesn’t appear in The Gift at all.

[retired_xs2khizar]

Originally posted by Neil Purvis:
I never really liked the mind sequences. The point it builds up to is Buffy having a single moment where she thinks about quitting which doesn’t need such a big explanation.

I always enjoy the cryptic dream sequences, and the mind sequences in this are very similar with their twisted symbology (e.g. Joyce's grave inside her room).

I kinda like the fact that Buffy had this moment of realisation during a mundane action. I think I'd like it even more if we had caught a glimpse of this in the background in a previous episode, just Buffy walking to that bookcase with that book while two other characters talk in the foreground. No explanation or reaction, just a glimpse (I assume we don't, unless I missed it).

Plus having Buffy casually suffocating Dawn with a pillow :thup: (I heard your cheers in the background, Neil). Nice to see Joyce & Hank too. I can think of some examples but generally it's not often we get to witness Buffy's past (even if in this case it's a fabricated memory).

[retired_katie14]

I always like the dream sequences as well which is why I wasn’t keen on this one - it just doesn’t compare with others in the series as they’re all done better.

I agree about the realisation moment – maybe we did see it but it was in the background but I can’t remember it at all. I’m guessing it was just added in.

One thing that bothers me in the final episode is Buffy refusing to deal with the consequences of what will happen if the portal opens. She states that she’ll let the world end and would rather die defending Dawn than making the obvious sacrifice. Even when Giles points out that Dawn will still die she won’t see sense and goes as far to say that if anyone goes near Dawn she will kill them.

It just seems totally unreasonable and out of character. I can understand the reasons for her choice but it doesn’t come across as her connection to Dawn and looks more like her being a bit of a b!tch.