It's been pointed out to me that Wes has a killer "fuck you" line a little later in the episode, too. Even with all the bad feelings, who's been doing the heavy lifting all summer?

Since I was a "Wrecked" defender, let me repeat my argument - addiction was never the whole story. The show clearly depicts Willow and company drawing incorrect (or at least woefully incomplete) conclusions about the events of "Wrecked," and the consequences that ensue.

Other way around. LMPTM comes before "Orpheus," but aired later due to the war.

I'm not here to dictate what you think
Enjoy the good parts of S7, and enjoy analyzing why the lesser parts don't work. Either way, enjoy seeing how it all ends.

I'd agree with that - the Spike sequences in these three episodes seem weak to me, sacrificing a lot in the name of a single big twist. Of course, reading the other sub-threads about it this week and last week, some people were just floored, in a good way (at the same time as many others thought it was unclear). So…

Rise from your graves
There's no rule that you have to unabashedly love S6 the way some of us do;, just as long as you appreciate the parts that work best and write well about them. I've loved reading these reviews.

Forgot:
- The end of S3 of _Angel_ marks the end of the David Greenwalt's 3 years basically running _Angel_ and 6 years as a major creative voice in the Buffyverse. He left to work on a few other things, and has not collaborated with Whedon since to the best of my knowledge, other than one more directorial credit…

And for that matter, where's the trivia?
- Probably totally unintentional callback alert: Back in S5 - I think it was in "No Place Like Home" - Tara is recruited to keep Dawn company so she won't be exposed to a dead body.

Here's the culmination of what I've been trying to go for
Okay, remember how I wrote a long post about how the central point of "Wrecked" was that Willow learned the wrong lesson, and how pinning everything on the addiction allowed her to neatly avoid ever addressing her combination of selfishness and willfull abuse…

Noel: I think maybe another way to look at it would be this - Willow is flaying Warren in a metaphorical sense before she does it in a physical sense. He wants to see himself as a suave former geek whose genius finally earns him the adulation of the world, but over the course of the episode, he's exposed as an…

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THE ONLY WAY TO WIN IS NOT TO PLAY
Interesting take on how Wesley-centric the episodes are. I don't think it's an either-or, but that's certainly a valid way to look at things, especially how it colors the behavior of Gunn and others.

ONGOING SPOILERS ABOVE AND BELOW

Oh, yeah, some fans do indeed get very upset over inserting this bit of pre-series history, since it doesn't really match up with Joyce's reactions to vampire-related content through the end of S2. To some, it retroactively hurts Joyce as a character.

Worth another watch?
A little disappointed that you didn't unabashedly love NA, Noel, but then I'm remembering my initial impressions. On first viewing, I wasn't even sure whether I liked it, but I was pretty sure I did. The episode haunted me enough that I had to re-watch the next day. And many times after. It's…

I guess I don't need to talk too much at length about the "reality" issue now. But I'm with both Sophist and Donna on this one. We've reached the point in the season in which Buffy is forced, without objective evidence one way or the other, to make a decision, and she says "I choose to live." That's the point.

I hate being busy
Too tired to even join in the big sub-thread about whether or not Xander walking out works at all. Long story short, I hate the ending, and really dislike the episode as a result, and Noel articulated the reasons very well.

ROCK
"As You Were" is one that feels a little "off" to me (I don't especially either like or dislike it, but it feels "off"). Glad that the emotional moments hit you the way they were intended, but they don't so much for me. Lots of things about the plot don't hold up, and Buffy's final exit into the light doesn't…

"And as for your theory that Denisof wanted to play a badass, I've never really got that impression from him. He seems like a total goofball. If anything, I always pictured him being like, "Guys, when can I be funny again? Please? Can't I just trip one time?" If you got the impression he wanted to play a hard-ass,…

How many shows in history have included a scene that features one of the heroes forcing himself to stay well-behaved while being insulted by a giant talking hamburger? I can count the number on one finger. And that's why I (and obviously many others) love _Angel_.