End of Days

**Kris blearily looks up at the assembled group from the depths of her comfy chair, and reaches for the keyboard.**

This isn't the normal format this week, gang... I've been putting in insane hours the last 10 days (who knew that I could still go for 40 hours without sleeping?), and I just didn't have the energy to take notes while I watched this week's ep.

Overall, you could tell that this was a definite set up for next week. The whole Andrew/Anya hospital scene made me nervous - people having fun at this point have a big honkin' bullseye on their forehead to get killed off - but it wasn't too bad.

Until the last scene.

ARGH!

Oh, the Spuffy fan in me just had her heart ripped out watching the whole Buffy-Angel smoochie fest... but here's the thing:

I think Buffy isn't *in love* with Angel.

She may love him... but she's not *in love* with him. And considering that he's got his own show, and that we've already seen him mention (more than once) that he loves Cordy... I'm thinking that this is a "I haven't seen you in so long" automatic reaction...

But that's the Spuffy in me.

So there.

Loved that Willow is still iffy on whether she trusts herself to use her powers... the Faith & Buffy interaction was pretty good... and seeing Buffy clock Caleb a good one was great.

The Spuffy scenes - <happy sigh>

But hands down, my favorite quote:

Caleb, making the fish faced "Oh" when Buffy pulled out the Scythe. 'Nuff said.

Next week:

The end of an era, but not the end of the Musings. I'll be back in full form, and you can be sure that I'll give the final episode the treatment it truly deserves from this particular denizen of the Comfy Chair.

Furry Spike rating this week:

2.5 out of 4 paws. JM stole the scenes he had, and seeing Vulnerable!Spike was something we haven't seen in quite a while...

My rating:

7.5 out of 10. Lots of stuff happened, we got the history of the scythe... but the ending just killed me.

Hugs to all...

Kris

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