So what exactly IS the gift?

Also without the seriously disturbed nature of Spike and Buffy's relationship in Season 6 I also think that its very unlikely that Spike would endure the trials in order to gain his soul.

Anyway, her death was her gift to the world and to Dawn.
 
I think it means that she can give the death to somebody but she can also fight against the death. For example she went back from the death and she rescued Dawn before him.
 
I think the First Slayer's 'death is your gift' comment works on many levels:

- death is literally Buffy's gift because that is every Slayer's gift to the world...they are given powers (a gift), and use those powers every day to kill vampires/demons to protect the world (a gift to the world), and the fact they will inevitably die battling the forces of evil is a Slayer's (ultimate) gift to humanity.

- it could also have been specifically prophetic in that Buffy would choose death to sacrifice herself to the save her sister's life, and the world from hell.

- the OP's comment about 'heaven as her gift' is also really interesting.....I like the idea that Buffy's death and sacrifice meant she was 'gifted' with heaven. It certainly works once you learn she was in a heaven-like dimension.

All very clever of the writers!
 
TheAnnointedOne
TheAnnointedOne
Great post!! I agree :)
Season 5 was originally the end of the series, so the end had to be final.
Buffy jumping off the tower, Buffy being told what her gift would be by the 1st slayer.
The wording of what the slayers gift is..... those words were specific to the slayers creed, not to an individual action.
I'd suggest the writers knew how to write in English, those words were chosen to be in that order. They were specific to the ending, effective and powerful.
The action of jumping off the tower, how to end a series? Oh, imagine the dramatical impact!
The slayer lets her sister jump to her death, or when put another way. The Monks of Dagon entrusted the slayer to protect the key, and the slayer let the key/ Dawn jump to her death? Really? Is that how the slayer should be remembered?
Another tv station took on the rights and season 6 and 7 happened, but that should not distract you from the fact that the end of season 5 was to be the end.
 
As easy as it would've been for Dawn to sacrifice herself in the season finale, I also see what the other people have been saying about the possibility of Buffy still falling into depression. For me, this clinical depression is a likelihood because the monks had entrusted Dawn to her to protect, which was why she was so hell-bent on not lettting Dawn die, even if the entire world was plunged into hell. The monks made Dawn and changed their memories specifically so Dawn would be Buffy's priority. In failing to protect Dawn, the protective instinct and love from both the monks and Buffy herself would cause her to fall into a depression.
 
I'm sure someone already said this but...death was her gift to the world. She gave up her life to save it. That's a pretty damn good gift, if I do say so myself.
 
ILLYRIAN said:
Another tv station took on the rights and season 6 and 7 happened, but that should not distract you from the fact that the end of season 5 was to be the end.
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not that it's much different, but I thought that Joss always wanted to go further than 5 seasons, but it was up in the air whether or not the show was going to be picked up by another network, so he constructed an ending that IF the show didn't get picked up anywhere, there would still be a satisfactory ending.

This is similar to the first season of 24 (I only bring it up because its another Howard Gordon show). Halfway through the first season, there's a scene that, if the show had been canceled halfway through, would have tied everything up pretty well.
 
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