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[ChosenOneK]

So this is by far one of my favorite episodes. Maybe because Buffy was no longer a kid and was teaching the potentials that there is always a way. I thought it was absolutely amazing. Especially the battle between her and the ubervamp. Then her saving spike. It all seemed to fit together so well!. Anyone else a fan of this episode?

 

[EvilBuffy]

I love this episode as well. It's one of the first that springs to mind when thinking of S7 and an episode that I love to make fanart from. 🙂

 

[Nix]

It is a good episode. Love the way Buffy and the gang cope with training the potentials and showing them what can be done.

 

[david4wt]

I like it a lot, expect this:

Buffy: I always find a way. I am the thing that monsters have nightmares about. And right now you and me are gonna show 'em why. It's time. Welcome to Thunderdome.
Andrew: Two men enter. One man leaves.

Just no. It's a line that should be in one of those awful american action movies full of explotions, not in Buffy.

 

[Carina]

I think this is one of the best episodes of season 7, and I love it! And I think it was so clever how Buffy, Xander and Willow did the whole "mind-discussing" thing. And of course Buffy finishing of the uber-vamp was a very impomrtant point where the potentials and the rest of the group realizes that it really is possible to kill an uber-vamp.

And the final scene where Buffy saves Spike almost made me cry. How he at first thinks it is not her, but then she cuts the ropes and they have this moment where they look at each other and you can really see how Buffy cares about him.

 

[Xin Rong]

I liked it, but the buffy talking to willow via mind speech bugged me... willow is the one with telepathic powers, I didn't buy buffy getting through to willow this way... especially if willow wasn't expecting it. It suggests willow is constantly scanning peoples thoughts, which as we know from earshot would not be a good thing.

 

[white avenger]

(Two men enter. One man leaves.)

Just no. It's a line that should be in one of those awful American action movies full of exploitations, not in Buffy.

In point of fact, that phrase was first used to describe the gladiatorial games in ancient Rome, and the movie that you're referring to, "Mad Max," was Australian, not American.

This is definitely one of my favorite episodes of Season 7, and probably the entire series. I've always been a sucker for the big climactic one on one showdown between the hero and the chief bad guy (okay, the First Evil was the chief bad guy, I know, but Buffy couldn't very well slug it out with an incorporeal being) and the final scene with Buffy and Spike, to me, affirms without so much as a spoken syllable the depth of trust and love shared by these two characters. Argue whatever you want to about whether or not anything romantic exists between these two, this one scene affirms a depth of love, faith, and loyalty that equals or goes beyond anything else in the entire Buffyverse. In any good series, there are scenes that make you want to cheer, to cry, or both at the same time, scenes that define the characters, their relationships, and the very essence of the show, and this, for me, is one of those scenes.

 

[david4wt]

I didn't know that it was taken from a movie, even though I imagined it, but I got the referrence to gladiators. 🙂
And by "one of those awful american action movies full of explotions", I didn't mean a particular movie (for example, the one from where the quote was taken), but just the ideal of a Schwarzenegger-y movie usually full of explotions and bad acting/writing, which here in Italy we usually refer to as "Americanata" (american thing).