Anya - needed more closure

[Tomp]

Was very dissapointed with Anya's death, really wished she survive - I felt she needed far more closure, her death was very abrupt and her 'friends' over the past 5 years shed not one tear. 🙁 I would have been interested to see Buffy, Dawn, Willow and Giles's reactions, but instead they ignore her death completely. In fact, none of them are ever told she died and none of them realise she isn't on the bus.

Such a shame, I loved her character.

 

[GATEGOD]

Yea.. they do seem to just gloss over the whole thing, with smiles while they get there happy on :cry: Did anyone besides Xander even care or notice?

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Yea.. they do seem to just gloss over the whole thing, with smiles while they get there happy on :cry: Did anyone besides Xander even care or notice?

I'm thinking that Andrew might well have cared and noticed...on account of him telling Xander about her death.

 

[Lou]

They should throw that in at the end of S8. Like an annual Anya party that they have to remember her. It would be really sweet.
I understand why they didn't have time at the end of season 7, but we have time NOW and she deserves it!

 

[white avenger]

They did the same thing for everybody who died in the battle. The shock of having all of the chaos end and finding yourself still alive tends to do that to someone. I think that's one of the reasons Joss just sorta skipped over all of that time in resuming the story. There would just be too much grief to portray in what is basically an action series. To do it any real justice would take an entire arc just devoted to every character's own way of handling the pain. Maybe someday if Joss wants another challenge, he could tell that part in novel form so that the ones of us who really want to know can satisfy our curiosities without burdening down the average reader who's just in it for the action.

That would be one heckuva story now, wouldn't it? I'd place my order right now if I knew where to do it...

 

[Angels baby101]

I think it wasn't that they hadn't noticed its just that everything was so cut and dry... it was like get out of the falling building.. onto the bus... wait as long as possible... get your butt out of dodge and dont ask questions....

They knew there would be lives lost it was a fact they didn't have time to do roll call before getting on the bus and getting away so not all of them would die. They had other lives to think about not just the ones who weren't able to make the bus...

From what i heard Emma wanted to quit playing Anya anyways so they figured they'd give her a heroic out i think her death was quite moving and in fact beautifully done... Sad Yes but also she stayed and fought knowing what was in store... she lost... but she was saving the world doing it just like any hero would want... She was brave....

I mean they were trying to end Buffy on a happy note not a sad everyone's dead note... I mean if you go through one of the biggest battles in your life... your gonna be glad you got your butt out of there... I really could see them having a very heart filled sadness for Anya's death if the Finale were actually two hours instead of one... I think it would have been better told that way but they were on a time limit and did the best they could... In reality it was a wonderfully made episode somethings weren't perfect but it was very well made.... and i was extremely happy with Spike and Anya's Death...

 

[Lou]

From what i heard Emma wanted to quit playing Anya anyways...

Sorry, I know it's not you saying it, but I just gotta laugh. I'm glad Emma put her foot down and demanded to no longer play Anya after the Finale. Everyone has to take a stand on something, I suppose.

 

[GATEGOD]

If Joss wanted to end on a Happy note, which he did, than it wasn't very bright to kill off a character who all be it yes the actor wanted to leave, but still 'happy note' If he wanted to end on one than he shouldn't have killed off a character who appeared in 85 episodes. Anya's death was heroic, but pointless, if she lived nothing would have changed.. Sunny D would have went kaplat, and any demon that did escape would have been killed anyway. Plus they couldn't even go outside it was sunlight out, so they dead. Cutting her in half in a few seconds than leaving and going elsewhere only for her body to never be found. I'm not happy with her death. I'm glad it was heroic, I'm just not glad that it happened. I could care less If she wanted out, it was the end of the show, it wouldn't have mattered, except to the fans... !!

 

[Kemy]

Joss specifically wanted one character death to be just that, rather needless and pointless. Emma expressed her desire to leave during season 7, so Joss wrote that death for her.

She was only meant to be a temporary character during season 3 then never come back, that changed and we had years worth, 85 characters is a lot of time. And we did see her character change over that time, had a lot of story lines centre around her.

As much as closure, there was going to be a season 8 on air which scripts were written for, or a spin off "Slayer School" but became the season 8 we have now, so there may well always have been an Anya story in the works to have one final scene for her, in some form to give that closure.

 

[justanotherjen]

I kind of looked at it like they were just all in shock. Can you imagine going through that? Your brain would totally overload and no longer process anything. I'm sure it registered in the back of their brains somewhere that Anya wasn't there along with a lot of the other girls and Spike but their brains just weren't ready to deal with that yet. The brain is a fascinating thing. I'm sure once they had time to rest and settle it all came flooding in--exactly what they had done and what it had cost.

 

[Tomp]

If Joss wanted to end on a Happy note, which he did, than it wasn't very bright to kill off a character who all be it yes the actor wanted to leave, but still 'happy note'

Which is exactly why the scenes after the battle should have gone on for longer. In my mind, some scenes in chosen were fairly pointless (Kennedy and Willow's conversation at about 20 minutes springs to mind).

Such a shame that the final seemed to be all about the Potentials but very little aboiut the original gang - Buffy, Xander, Willow, Giles and to some extent Anya and Dawn.