Maybe, but I'm inclined to lean more toward it being the ungodly hours you have to keep.

Snork.

TV news, which is what he's in, isn't so bad.

He's 8-5, and when he was working News-News, he got off at 11, unless there was a story that needed the truck. Of course, he was also periodically gone for weeks at a time on Major News Events.

Though it occurs to me that my perception of wacky hours is completely detached from reality.

Cindy: The class protector award. I'd always admired BtVS ability to avoid pouring the sugar on, and while being emotional it avoided blatant emotional manipulation. That scene had my teeth rotting and was sooo manipulative that I just thought it jarred compared to everything else that had gone before it.

But I love the class protector bit. All of it. Her perfect moments always got ripped away from her, and she deserved to have one unsullied good evening.

Yes, this. She even says earlier in the ep that she had wanted just one perfect high school moment, but that got screwed, and she was over it. It's the fact that she *does* get her one perfect high-school moment (albeit in a Sunnydale way) AND she actually gets wide(r) recognition for saving people's asses that makes me cry.

(and she looked so pretty)

(and she looked so pretty)

(That she did. I thought it would've been better with her hair up, though in the context of the show a perfect chignon right then would have seemed kind of odd.)

Yes, by all means, unsullied good evening. But there must've been a way to do it that wasn't so sugary and manipulative. It wasn't the concept that I didn't like. It was the execution.

I know it would have screwed up the moment, but does anyone else wish we'd seen an "evil Slayer" in the Chosen montage?

That's one of the questions left open if ME ever decides to produce an S8. What do all those new Slayers do with their power? What if some choose to use their power for evil? Will there be a Slayer civil war? And even more broadly, how does the world change now that some unknown number of ordinary-looking women can beat the unholy crap out of anyone who crosses them in any way?

And even more broadly, how does the world change now that some unknown number of ordinary-looking women can beat the unholy crap out of anyone who crosses them in any way?

You mean other than for the better?

You mean other than for the better?

Oh yes, I'm sure the demonic power that gives Slayers their strength was careful to choose only highly moral Potentials imbued with a passion for helping people and who will vow to use their superstrength only for good.

'Cause, it's not like Faith ever caused any problems.

Oh yes, I'm sure the demonic power that gives Slayers their strength was careful to choose only highly moral Potentials imbued with a passion for helping people and who will vow to use their superstrength only for good.

'Cause, it's not like Faith ever caused any problems.

(My 'for the better' quip was a quip in the battle of the sexes or damn-the-man kind of vein, not a canon vein)

Seriously though, of course there will be bad slayers. But that sort of argument ("What If They Misuse Their Power") has been trotted out to oppose giving women the right to vote, freeing slaves, you name it. It doesn't reach me.