Complete Spoilers - S6E15 - "As You Were"

[Ange]

Pics for As You Were are up, there:

http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292014101

there's also, a clip up, at http://www.slayerweb.com , for Buffy/Spike fans. That's the end of the episode.

Ange.

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[jomarch]

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Originally posted by Ange:
Pics for As You Were are up, there:

http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292014101

Ange.

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Thanks for the pictures link. This episode looks pretty cool.
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[xita]

Thanks for the link, it's good to see a bit of giddy Willow

[tommo]

It's so good to see Willow smiling again. I'm happy.

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Sweetie...I'm a fag.

[wiccie]

*edited because I found Loey's review*

Looking forward to tonight - yay for Willpower Buffy and Giddy Willow.

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[tyche]

Here's a nice Marc Blucas interview:

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http://www.tvguide.com/newsgossip/insider/020226a.asp

Buffy Alum Soldiers On
Tuesday, February 26, 2002

This is a big week in the career of actor Marc Blucas. Tonight, after a year-long absence, he reprises his role as Buffy Summers's wholesome ex-beau Riley Finn on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 pm/ET on UPN). And come Friday, he can be seen on the big screen opposite Mel Gibson in the brutal Vietnam drama We Were Soldiers.

"[The back-to-back gigs are] nice for me and my family," Blucas admits to TV Guide Online, "but the verdict's still out on whether anyone else thinks it's nice or not."

Well, as far as his small-screen comeback is concerned, the modest 6'2" hottie need not worry about receiving a warm reception: Buffy fans have been drooling for Riley's return ever since he left his Chosen One in tears at the Sunnydale Heliport. Of course, there is one obsessed Buffy disciple who almost certainly won't be rolling out the welcome mat: the Slayer's current love slave, Spike.

Blucas — who turned the big 3-0 last month — reveals that Buffy's latest dalliance with the undead is one of many things that Riley "gets caught up to speed on." But he points out that his alter ego hasn't exactly been cooped up in a cabin writing poetry during his time away, teasing that Riley "drops a bombshell" of his own.

Although Riley's Hellmouth homecoming is short-lived (read: one-episode only), Finn-ites can get a second helping of Blucas just by going to the cineplex to catch Soldiers. But brace yourself: His on-screen counterpart, too-eager-for-his-own-good Lt. Herrick, meets an untimely end. And making matters worse, director Randall Wallace (The Man in the Iron Mask) chose to shoot the wrenching death scene in extreme close-up.

At the time, the cameraman warned Blucas that when the movie made it to the big screen his mug would be super-sized. "He commented, 'Your face is going to be like 60 feet wide on this one,'" the Summer Catch star recalls.

Making the sequence even more of a challenge, he says, was the fact that Lt. Herrick was a real person. "He has a family that's going to see this movie," he says. "And more than anything, I just wanted to make it an accurate depiction. I've never seen anyone die in person and I hope I don't have to." — Michael Ausiello

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[BBOvenGuy]

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Originally posted by Shewolf:
No riots as of yet,Bob, us S/B shippers are a resiliant bunch-it takes more than that to bring us down. We stand firm in our belief that this is not the end.

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Well, I've noticed that there seem to be two different types of shippers. There are B/S shippers (with the slash), who like the actors and like the characters and have faith and hope for the relationship. Then there are BS shippers, without the slash, and I think you can figure out what I think of them. They're the ones I'm worried about tonight.

Mind you, all this is just my snarky opinion. Feel free to ignore me if you wish.

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Remember the Kitten Board Mantra: "Joss is nuts about Tara, Willow/Tara and Amber!"
(...and Marti's rather fond of them, too...)quote:

[Shewolf]

Well, the only other B/S shippers I have contact with are my fellow posters at the Big Bad Board and at Crumbling Walls- and most of us are level headed and calm people. The closest we came to riots was over skyone's cuts of Buffy-but that's a story for another thread.

Of course everyone's entitled to their own opinion- I just assumed you were referring to all B/S shippers, and got a little defensive, that's all. No harm.

[dusty]

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Originally posted by Shewolf:

No riots as of yet,Bob, us S/B shippers are a resiliant bunch-it takes more than that to bring us down. We stand firm in our belief that this is not the end.

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I agree. I am a B/S shipper, and I think this break-up is best for now, because I don't think this is the end. This way, both Buffy and Spike can work out their issues and hopefully they will get back together, so they can start afresh and have a healthier relationship because of it. I absolutely love the two of them together, and I'm sure seeing them break up will have me a little misty-eyed (especially because she calls him William--there's something about that that gets me every time), but I do think it's the best thing right now. I have faith that we will see them together again, and maybe next time Buffy won't be constantly beating Spike up and he won't be telling her that her friends don't understand her.

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[BBOvenGuy]

Oh yes... I knew there would be some B/S shippers who would see the relationship as it currently stands as unhealthy, and would agree that changes need to be made. It's the same thing we Kittens went through at the beginning of the season, when Willow's magic addiction was clearly preventing the W/T relationship from continuing as it was.

What concerns me is that there are a number of people out there who think Buffy and Spike are just fine as they are right now, who won't understand why Buffy's leaving him and will likely fill cyberspace with very angry comments saying so. That's really what I was referring to. It seems to happen every time Buffy breaks up with someone, and I just have a feeling this round will be bigger than usual.

And now I've probably already gone past the edge of being inflammatory, so I'll just shut up and sit here quietly.

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Remember the Kitten Board Mantra: "Joss is nuts about Tara, Willow/Tara and Amber!"
(...and Marti's rather fond of them, too...)

[KathleenWolf]

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Originally posted by dusty:
I have faith that we will see them together again, and maybe next time Buffy won't be constantly beating Spike up and he won't be telling her that her friends don't understand her.

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Though I am a total anti B/S shipper... I have to say that coming down to the nuts and bolts of it that was the worst part about their relationship... all the violence/manipulation/name calling... didn't seem healthy or substancial... I would humbly venture a guess that what most B/S fans would want a more solid relationship...

as for the B/S sex during As You Were... I had about enough after Doublemeat Palace so I'll be flipping to Muchmusic and the news to save myself

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[shellybean]

YAY! I was actually able to avoid the wildfeed and watch the ep un-spoiled! except for knowing about Sam. And I also remember it being UCSD because I remember Oz holding a folder in "New Moon Rising" when he saw Tara in the hallway that said UCSD. I've seen the ep enough times to remember.

I was glad that buffy broke it off with spike. their relationship was just so unhealthy. it was obvious that spike does love her and buffy does seem to have an infatuation with spike, but she would never be able to go back to living her life and growing with spike. he keeps trying to hold her back by telling her things like she doesn't belong with her friends and that she only belongs with him.

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