A more detailed summary will follow.

This is so unnecessarily dramatic but I’m having mixed-up feelings. The end is weirdly anti-climactic. It’s thematically conclusive, but it doesn’t hold a candle to the last two season finales. I wanted more. More death. More destruction. More intimacy between characters. Tie up the story, not just the series. But the thing is - they tied up the story twice in the preceeding two years.

Still - Caleb was a huge mistake (he didn’t make it to the final battle and we wasted four episodes on him?) and the Potentials were a mistake. I’m always for intimacy over scope. I get it - they really wanted to delve into what being a slayer means. And I LOVED Buffy being ousted by the house. But. It just got too unweildy. The way Buffy isolated herself in this season was what they SHOULD have been doing with her in Season Six. And this season - I wish - was actually about her forging connections as opposed to bringing in the only people who will ever potentially understand her alone-ness and then having her refuse to understand them. Disconnected is hard to play and harder to watch. And what always separated Buffy was that she might have felt alone but she was continuously reminded that she wasn’t.

I get it. Girl Power. We got slammed in the face with it as the show ended. But you know what? Own what you preach. Screw you, everybody who worked on this show. You end your series Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a BOY and a VAMPIRE being your big hero? Screw you. Screw you and your crush on Spike so hard.

But also, I love you very much.