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I must admit – I watched season 7 with no breaks, white knuckling my glass of red wine and holding my breath.  I found myself trying to write a review for it and had to step back from the comptuer.  Yes, step back from the computer, Anna.  Slowly…. goooooood.  How can a TV show be this GOOD??!  I literally was in tears during the finale.

I felt like one of the Scoobies, I had been with these guys from the beginning and watched them grow and shared the love and the loss.

Joss Whedon, I bow to you and your writers.  I know that Season 6 was good, but I felt that all the seasons were just building up to this incredible series of events for our beloved characters.

What??!  The end of the world is coming??  AGAIN???!  This sounds like a job for Buffy and the Scooby gang!

There is a mystery going on in the wonderful world of Buffy – someone is killing off young girls all around the world and we find that, once again, Sunnydale is the epicenter for the end of the world.  Loads of demons, vampires (you name it!) ready to unleash their evilness and destroy the world as we know it. Not particularly a new concept for this show, but I can honestly say that this plot was expertly played out.

This season had a wonderful new edge to it, particularly in filming style.  I especially liked the documentary-like filming of episode 16 (Storyteller) by Andrew, formerly one of the evil geek 3 and now Buffy supporter.  It gave the show an new silly and clever edge that I dare say has never been seen.

So, all the young vampire slayer wannabies descend on Sunnydale and Buffy starts to train them for the battle against the First Evil. We get appearances from all the important characters from past seasons – Angel, Faith & Giles. And with everyone’s help and Buffy to guide them (with a few mishaps along the way) they train an army of young-hormone-raging teenaged vampire slayers!

We have the new and mucho creepiness that is Caleb, the incredibly icky and strong new minion of the First Evil. I liked this bad guy. He was definitely evil, but I liked that he was normal looking.  All the other epic bad guys in Buffy’s world were demons or huge wriggling snakes. It was almost comforting in a messed up kind of way to have a bad guy who dresses like a priest causing all the trouble!

And then there is the epic relationship that was Buffy and Spike.  Personally, I always thought Buffy was crazy.  I mean, come on.  Angel was this broody whiney guy who did everything he did to help people because he felt guilty for the things he had done.  Not that that is bad.  Quite the contrary.  Enter Spike (ok, I’m a bit biased he is one of my favorites!).  SWOOOOOOOOON!

Spike is and always was the bad boy.  Spike may have come to have a little remorse for what he did, but he didn’t do it out of guilt.  He fell in love (yes, I love the sappy crap) and through his love and devotion to Buffy, he changed. He wanted to better himself.  I got the feeling that he never truly felt guilt per se for what he had done, he accepted it as part of who he was and his past made him who he became.  He truly grew throughout the whole Buffy saga.

I get that it’s hard to get over a first love. Almost impossible. But BUFFY!!  I wanna smack you!  I was in tears watching the last scene between Spike and Buffy.  I truly think that she meant it when she told him that she loved him, but not in the way that he loved her.

It was, though, a poetic ending.  Classic, too.  Filled with longing, love, sacrifice, acceptance and redemption.

Then, KA-BOOM!!!

Buffy, I will always think that you are crazy. And though I hate you because your mourning time for my beloved Spiky was, like, 30 seconds, I love you overall and all of the Buffyisms you gave us.

Bye bye Sunnydale, I loved you well old friend.

VVVVV (5 Fangs for Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 7)