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"Here we are now. Entertain us."
SPIKE in "Two To Go"



After that quote was uttered by the infamous platinum blond
vampire, I chuckled lightly to myself.
And I took that quote to heart. I waited to be entertained.
And waited.
And waited.
And after that waited some more.
Then the end credits came.

I probably am in the minority here, but this year's Season Finale was....well....Let's just say I'd rather be forced to watch UPN's comedies than to see "Two to Go" and "Grave" again.

There has been better writing on "Buffy".
For these two episodes, the writing was so contrived, hackneyed. The people who wrote these episodes have little or no originality.
For example: Willow's long winded speeches.
Yes, I know villains get to make with the diatribe..but this? On Alyson Hannigan (who is a good actress)...everything she said (except for the magic) was like her trying on a shoe two sizes two small. It just didn't fit.
On more than one occassion, the actors seemed like they were tired...so tired...they just said their lines. There was no emotion, true emotion or depth behind them. The cast of "Roswell" of whom I read wanted to get far, far away from the show as possible, put more of an effort into their Series Finale than the cast of "Buffy" did tonight...........

I can't go through every moment that wasn't to my liking.
There are just too many. And you all would be bored...

So I'm going to cut my actual rant against this season finale short.
I'm going to finish with two things:

First...Joss Whedon needs to get back to "Buffy". I said it before. Many people have said it before. He needs to get into the trenches, start churning out scripts, do the direction.
He's tried to leave it in what he believes are capable hands.
I think that his people, especially the writing crew, as a whole, have failed him. There is but one exception, and I say that it is: "Tabula Rasa." There, we had the humor, the happiness, the sadness that we expect from every episode.
"Tabula Rasa" and "Once More With Feeling" are this season's highlights. But Two out of Twenty Two isn't good.

If I may make a historical reference here:

Napoleon, the Emperor of France, during what is called the 100 Days Campaign, relied on his subordinates to carry out his orders and conduct the battles as he would, (since apparently he wasn't feeling well). To make a long story short, he relied on mostly incompetent or untrustworthy people and that's why, in part, he lost the battle at Waterloo....


Joss has to stop overextending himself. There's time for "Firefly" and directing "Iron Man" later. He has to get back to his brainchild, the project he put so much of himself into, the show that made him famous.

As for my second, and perhaps more important point, I will try to step back and say this with as much impartiality as I can muster:

The brightest moments of the season were with anything that dealt with Amber Benson's character 'Tara'. Even if the episode was so-so, her presence, her charisma if you will, made the scenes she appeared in worthwhile. Worth watching.
And both 'Tara' and Amber will be missed on Tuesday nights in October...


.....unless the petition, and the Joss-shaped voodoo doll I have underneath my desk works.......

Some of you might say that I am too much of an Amberholic, and perhaps this isn't the only forum in which I should express the above opinion. But it's the truth.

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forever....

"The annoying virgin has a point."
ANYA

Have You ever noticed...that when Willow and Tara kiss..
Willow is always on the left???