Anya

Yeah, except for the Kenndy part. Besides, if he dated Harmony he'd still technically be lugging around a corpse.

NO HE SHOULDN'T. The idea of Xander with anyone else sucks. Especially stupid Harmony. Xanya is forever.

That's not what I mean. I am talking about FE and Jasmine. Their own schemes contradict each other. Jasmine can't have her peaceful world if ubies are overrunning it. She surely knows of the FE and what's it's doing. Same for FE knowing of her. Yet neither do anything to stop each other.

Yeah, and season 5 of Angel being only 19 days after Chosen is very strange. Someone should try to make sense of the timeline...

They just ignore it though. It's never brought up by anyone. It's like LA and Sunnydale are in their own little worlds and Angel/Buffy only cross paths when ME wants it. I'm sure the writers feel that it's worth it to tell the stories they want to tell, but it's still really silly to think about.

I'm watching the Jasmine arc now, and there's no way to make sense of this while thinking of the FE story going on at the same time just hours away. Both of their evil schemes contradict each other, both should be completely aware of what the other is doing, yet neither do anything about it or even seem to notice. It's like there's a barrier between the two and you're just supposed to pretend the other show doesn't exist, but then they have Willow coming out and W&H giving Buffy deus ex machina amulets.

Wow! The cover art is a big pic of Angel, with Cordy and vamped out Angel behind him. I'm so shocked. I wouldn't be surprised if Cordy is STILL there for season 5.

Spike feeling his soul is good, but that scene just doesn't have the emotion or power of some other big death scenes on Buffy. It just falls flat. In Inside Out Skip calls Angel a HOSS!

I beat 1 and 2. So far I've unlocked an art gallery and two music tracks.

I don't think the pause trick works. I couldn't get it to work on the rock monster. I actually beat it without using it though. Go me.

Yeah, it's in X5 and MM8...but neither of those compare to it's MM1 form. It's like the hardest Megaman boss ever. Megaman 1's normal bosses are too easy. With their weaknesses you can kill them in like 2 or 3 hits. They really hadn't got down the whole weakness thing back then. The remixed music is really good. I'm almost to the Wily stages...that is where MM1 gets hard.

This is so cool. I'm halfway through MM1 already. It's still fun. I remember when stuff like the moving platforms on Gutsman's stage was IMPOSSIBLE as a kid. I am still afraid of the rock monster on Wily stage 1 though....

I just got it for PS2. The GBA one is out? I thought it wasn't coming out till later. Megaman 7 is pretty good.

Yeah, but only on PS2. On GC you can just listen to it in the options menu, but not in the actual game.

I'd really love to see Groo and Anya interact with each other.

Yes, that is terrible. I can see the SITs turning on her, but the scoobies going along with it is just awful. Willow siding with Kennedy is unbelievable. Anya's behavior regresses several years when she rants to Buffy. Giles is mean and overly serious like old school Giles all year. Xander, injured or not, turning on her is ridiculous. Dawn of all people turning on her is just insane. That whole thing is just horrible. The reason they turn on her is dumb too. All she was saying is that they have to go after Caleb in the vineyard. She is RIGHT. She is clearly right. He obviously had something there. They are all like "we need proof". WTF? When have they EVER been like that? When was it ever about proof? Caleb is baddie. Caleb chills at Vineyard. What more proof do they need? She was open to suggestions and strategies, but they just ignored that.

Caleb was brought in so late because they never planned for him to come in. They realized FE wasn't working and wanted a new villain. That is so telling. That just shows how disorganized they were and what a mess things must have been behind the scenes. I was the one to bring up the apocalyse that goes on at the same time. It's sooo true. Buffy is just freaking out about how GIRLS WILL DIE over Bringers and just hours away it is raining fire. It really makes the stuff on Buffy look weaksauce.

There's no scooby spirit in season 7. The whole spirit of the show is that all this crazy stuff is happening and the world is going to end but they're still the scoobies. They're still having fun. They're still friends. They're normal people dealing with all the wacky nonsense in Sunnydale. In season 7 it's SO gloomy. It's just GIRLS WILL DIE! THIS IS A WAR! WE ARE AN ARMY!. An "army"? Jeez. That's not fun at all. It's like they take it too seriously. Buffy is a "general" or whatever. It just doesn't work. Buffy as a serious epic sci fi/fantasy show with this WAR is just goofy. It's a bunch of people living in a house! What makes the scoobies cool is that they're NOT action heroes. Trying to act like they are in S7 is just lame. They don't have the budget for it either. Buffy keeps spazzing out about how huge this evil is and how they are in this gigantic epic battle but it's just like Bringer henchmen and one ubie, then later a priest. You can't take that serious. They never seem to have fun either. Buffy is too busy being a bitchy general. Willow is too busy doubting herself. Giles is too busy being sucked into a timewarp and acting like Giles from 1997. Anya is too busy being bitterly sarcastic and mean spiritied. Xander is just there, probably trying to find his missing story arc. They never interact. You never see the group joking around or just chilling out. You never see them go out and do something real world then get into a wacky situation. When you do it's like one scene and the hightlight of the ep. The whole thing is just "lets sit at Buffy's house and hype each other up about how this is a WAR~! Have I mentioned GIRLS WILL DIE?"

Nick Brendon said last year the original idea was for Caleb to kill him, but they went with the eye instead.

Caleb is massively overrated. After watching the 5 eps he's in the past few days I think of him a lot less. He is strong, but I don't see where you're all getting that he's THAT strong from. He didn't shrug them all off. He never even met Willow. He fought Spike and Faith for like 10 seconds. He knocked Spike down, but a lot of people have done that and they only fought that one brief time. They all bailed before the fight was over. Dirty Girls is the only time he comes into contact with the scoobies other than Buffy. In Empty Places he attacks Buffy, but it isn't much of a fight. In Touched Buffy avoids his attacks and gets away from him. In End of Days she beats him. In Chosen she beats him. Buffy used the syche, but it's not like it was what won. It was just a weapon. It's not like super laser beams shot out of it and zapped him or something. She just cut him open with it. She could have done the same with a sword. Once she knew his strength and had her determination back she was able to take him on, as we saw in Touched, EOD and Chosen. He was strong, but no way does he compare to someone like Glory or Beast.

Cordy just seems lame. Like I think about Anya, Wesley or Fred being dead all the time. I think about how they have no future now and how they're never going to see the gang again and all that and its really depressing. I think of them as if they are real people. With Cordy it's just like whatever. I watch season 3 of Angel and don't really think that Cordy is now dead. I watch season 5 of Buffy and like get really upset thinking that Anya is gone. Tara dying is also depressing, but partly because Will is now with that awful Kennedy. Whenever I daydream about what the scoobies are doing now Kennedy is never there. I can't believe they actually considered killing Xander. That's just crazy. I couldn't handle Willow or Xander dying. It would just be devestating.

I will do my part to make sure it's a success.

Cordy being dead is like the least important death ever for a major character. I barely think about it or care. I don't know why, but it just doesn't come off as that sad or a big deal. She was there from day 1 and a regular for 7 seasons of Buffy/Angel but I dunno, doesn't seem that bad. Fred being dead is worse.

Nah, her getting cut was the same. I am sure, since it haunts me on a daily basis. It's so fast, it's hard to register what's going on. It cuts away too fast to even think. It's sad how she can't say anything or see Xander one last time. Her last words are "bunnies!" and the last time she sees Xander it's just dragging Andrew away. Him calling out to her is almost as painful as her actual death. Thinking about how he will never see her again and how he wasn't there when she died and will never really know about it and see anything is awful. Now she is buried in a cave with ubie dust. Gone forever. Not even a grave. It's terrible. Ok, I need to think happy thoughts..... "So...the crux of your plan is..." "Sexual intercourse. I've said it like a dozen times" Good times....

Beast's fake death in the dream was cooler than his real death. The way he reaches for the dagger in his back is goofy. Seeing Anya die again didn't bother me as much as I thought it would. However I was talking to a friend earlier and they gave me the horrible mental image of her body falling in two, which will probably give me nightmares.