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On season 4 of Buffy...should I be watching Angel?

Chosen is one of the few finales that I actually liked. I do think that Xander was too nonchalant about Anya dying though.

Seriously. "That's My girl" ?? She should haunt him and give him back the funny Shumash STD.

Also cool how all of Sunnydale got blown up...

Although it was somehow suddenly located in the middle of the desert after having been a coastal city with its own seaport for most of the show's run.

And a beach, and rolling wooded hills, and a cliff...
It must be near Springfield.
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^ Well at first Sunnydale was just described as a "one-Starbucks town" then they just kept adding things and adding things (a university and an airport as the main offenders.) To be fair by Season 5 they seemed to be making fun of themselves for this

(Buffy vs Dracula)
RILEY: I've lived in Sunnydale a couple of years now. Know what I've never noticed before?
GILES: Uh, a castle?
RILEY: A big honking castle.
 
I guess the whole ghost thing is their reason for why Spike can't just run off back to Buffy but I really don't think it's going to work for the full season. Hopefully he gets re-bodied somehow before he becomes Gazoo.

The beginning of Angel Season 5 is meant to be a mini reintroduction to the show. New setting. Some new characters. Quite a few standalone episodes in the beginning.

Don't worry. Things get good, and Spike's situation is addressed.
 
^ Well at first Sunnydale was just described as a "one-Starbucks town" then they just kept adding things and adding things (a university and an airport as the main offenders.)

They did the same thing in Smallville. It just kept becoming a bigger and bigger city, and even acquired its own university, which was separate from the U. of Metropolis, even though by this point it had been established that Smallville was just a couple of hours' drive from Metropolis at most (and by the end of the series it seemed to have migrated into being a suburb of Metropolis).

At least Sleepy Hollow had the sense to make its fictionalized version of Sleepy Hollow/Tarrytown much larger than the real one from the start, so that it'd have enough people and institutions to drive any needed stories.
 
Eh, just blame the Monks. In their attempt to create Dawn and re-write Buffy's memories, they somehow re-wrote the landscape of Sunnydale as well.
 
Chosen is one of the few finales that I actually liked. I do think that Xander was too nonchalant about Anya dying though.

Seriously. "That's My girl" ?? She should haunt him and give him back the funny Shumash STD.

Absolutely. Giles tried to kill Angelus, Willow wanted to destroy the world, but Xander couldn't even shed one measly tear!? He deserves to suffer!
 
Chosen is one of the few finales that I actually liked. I do think that Xander was too nonchalant about Anya dying though.

Seriously. "That's My girl" ?? She should haunt him and give him back the funny Shumash STD.

Absolutely. Giles tried to kill Angelus, Willow wanted to destroy the world, but Xander couldn't even shed one measly tear!? He deserves to suffer!

This goes to my complaint about the ending feeling rushed. Give us another few minutes to actually expand on this stuff.
 
Another problem I thought of with Buffy using a wish to resurrect Tara.

Buffy knows where Tara probably is, and she knows Tara wouldn't want to be ripped out of there.

Unless she'd be resurrecting her out of revenge.

I agree Xander could have reacted more to Anya's death. But to be fair, his brain had a whole lot to process. He just won the war and saw his town blow up. He probably had a delayed reaction after the shock wore off.
 
Er...that begs the question of how selfless it was of the gang to resurrect Buffy though, doesn't it?

What's the difference?
 
Buffy would have wished for Tara, simply to have her friend be happy again.

Selfless.

The gang resurrected Buffy because they couldn't handle fighting the monsters. They could have waited for a new Slayer to be called, or maybe Faith could have taken over.

Selfish.
 
Yeah, but if her friends had known she was in heaven they would have left her alone. Buffy knows Tara is there. It'd be choosing Willow's corporeal desires over Tara's eternal ones.
 
Buffy can't really know where Tara is exactly. I doubt she is in Hell. But Buffy, and the others, can only assume she is at peace. That's pretty much what people do when someone dies, assume they are in a better place.
 
The difference is, Buffy died in a blood ritual jumping through a portal to a hell dimension.
That kinda biased the gang in their assumptions.
 
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