<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>See I hafta post this here, because Eric and some others are the ones besides me who follow that world (Buffy, Angel, etc). Although Eric seems to have read spoilers up to wazoo so maybe there's no surprising him heh. That and god, I've not seen Buffy in months and now the SERIES finale of that show is coming up next episode (which i vow not to miss). They were very crafty, too, in how they inserted a reference to that show in this season finale of Angel (you can see him walk away with the "item essential for the final battle" at the end of the Angel episode).
Aaaaanyhow, lemme say oh my god. They really did it to me at the end, I coulda sworn he had killed him (and they made it look like he was driving to a graveyeard at the end). I coulda seen that coming though, he wanted a normal life and etc. If nothing else, I think it is the show's way of telling people to APPRECIATE their lives. No matter how mundane it may seem, or how insignificant in the grand scheme of things, having the love of a family is something pure and irreplaceable (as the producers of the show obviously believe).
They've said that Angel has not been renewed for a next season yet (although I'd hafta hope it has). I'll be very very angry if it does not, cause there's plenty more to sum up before they draw this world to a close. (and yes, I know there's the stuff about a spinoff show, but that would be another START and not a real summarization of the old stories)....
A similar references can be drawn on from "Hercules." When that show ended (kinda abruptly, too, in midseason) they decided to run Xena for another season after that. They did this in order to put a real end to the tale that had been weaved (and besides, Xena started running a few seasons later, and was also decently popular enough that it could merit a final season despite the costs). So in the last Xena season, they had an entire year to be sure they could do it right. A lot of the gods died, and while the end of the show was cheesy, it also showed maturity in a lot of ways (it was not a stereotypical happy ending, not at all. Not like they pulled a Sabrina LOL eeesh).</div>
Aaaaanyhow, lemme say oh my god. They really did it to me at the end, I coulda sworn he had killed him (and they made it look like he was driving to a graveyeard at the end). I coulda seen that coming though, he wanted a normal life and etc. If nothing else, I think it is the show's way of telling people to APPRECIATE their lives. No matter how mundane it may seem, or how insignificant in the grand scheme of things, having the love of a family is something pure and irreplaceable (as the producers of the show obviously believe).
They've said that Angel has not been renewed for a next season yet (although I'd hafta hope it has). I'll be very very angry if it does not, cause there's plenty more to sum up before they draw this world to a close. (and yes, I know there's the stuff about a spinoff show, but that would be another START and not a real summarization of the old stories)....
A similar references can be drawn on from "Hercules." When that show ended (kinda abruptly, too, in midseason) they decided to run Xena for another season after that. They did this in order to put a real end to the tale that had been weaved (and besides, Xena started running a few seasons later, and was also decently popular enough that it could merit a final season despite the costs). So in the last Xena season, they had an entire year to be sure they could do it right. A lot of the gods died, and while the end of the show was cheesy, it also showed maturity in a lot of ways (it was not a stereotypical happy ending, not at all. Not like they pulled a Sabrina LOL eeesh).</div>
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