Soooo sleepy. Stayed up too late gabbing about Buffy last night and had to get up too damn early this morning to go pay my traffic fine. Bleah.

Already Wednesday and I've only managed to cross about five items off of my big-ass To Do list for this week. I suck. I keep letting this here Internet thing distract me. Then yesterday I gave up and had a mini-marathon of eps 7 - 10 before the new ep came on. Sigh. I'm so weak-willed. Though I think part of me is just rebelling against the idea of spending the last days of my vacation working my ass off instead of enjoying it. My vacation, that is; not my ass. Anyway. I'm bumping answering e-mail and burning DL cds to the top of the list. So if you're still, like, wondering if I got your donation and am planning to send you your CDs, if all goes well you should get a confirmation some time today. Here is where I point out for the nth time that I suck. Please forgive me.

So, Buffy. Spoilers for 7.11 ahoy (highlight to read):

[spoilers]Warning: This is pretty much gonna all be 'shippy fangirl 'shipper ramblings. If you don't like that sort of thing then go the hell away.

The ending choked me up. And then I went around all night with a stupid grin on my face. Hell, the grin is creeping back even as I type this. She SOOOOOO loves him! It was written all over her face at the end. Excuse me, I have to get up and do my happy dance. Okay, back. I also got a little choked up realizing that Buffy's primary motivation during that whole fight was saving Spike. Sure, protecting the Potentials and slaying the UV for the sake of slaying it were also good reasons, but first and foremost in her mind was Save Spike. The whole trap was primarily to get the UV out of the cave and slay it so she could get to Spike. Essentially, she took that beating for Spike.

'Shippy sigh.

I've seen some complaints that she defeated the UV too easily compared to how it so totally thrashed her ass in the last ep, but it wasn't really that easy. She got her ass kicked pretty hard before she finally got the upper hand. I think that A) she was more prepared this go-round and B) she was simply more motivated to win, seeing as how she feared time was running out for Spike. As for her not using any weapons, my fanwank is that it would've been too easy for it to get her weapon from her and use it against her (and that's not a total fanwank, considering it did that with her stake in the shooting script for BotN). Anyway, it was a cool fight so I'm not complaining.

Buffy just gets cooler and cooler.

Random thoughts:

Glad Eve was the dead one because Eve bugged.

Andrew: HA! Just, HA!

Xander was looking good this ep.

"Here endeth the lesson" was pretty certainly not intended as a shout-out to DL but I took it as such anyway.

Sexy wounds and disheveled hair only make Spike hotter.

His dream about being saved by Buffy broke my heart.

Even FE-Buffy had great chemistry with Spike. Too bad FE-Buffy & FE-Spike can't get together 'cause they'd be hot.

Rona was okay but I hope they tone down the whole freaked-out newbie thing in future eps.

Giles still made with the no touchies, and he has yet to take his coat off. I don't think he's evil, but I do still think he's projecting himself from a coma somewhere.

Speaking of touching, last night was the first time all season Spike and Buffy have touched in a non-fighty capacity that didn't make Buffy all flinchy. They've been pretty deliberate about that, even making sure she never actually touched him when she cleaned his face in NLM. So I knew they were leading up to some Significant Touching. I'm only a little disappointed that it didn't involve any smoochies.

Loved Anya, as usual. And I got a bit of a Ganya jones on during her scenes with Giles. They also have great chemistry.

I know that Darkness something or other movie they kept showing previews for will probably freak me the hell out and mess me up, but I think I'll have to see it just for Emma Caulfield.

I fear what it means that Buffy's being alive is what's making the FE's assault possible. I'm not ready to start speculating on that yet but I didn't love the thoughtful, pained look on Giles's face when Anya said they'd have all been better off if Buffy had stayed dead.

Oh. And as for the telepathy, Terrence and I have been discussing that. I didn't get that Buffy or Xander were at all telepathic. Just that Buffy knew about Willow's ability (don't forget that she used it in "Grave" to talk to Buffy whilst preparing to burn up the world) and was able to get her attention. Then Willow was able to do a three-way with Xander (not like that, perv!). I didn't have any trouble buying it. But then, I'm easy.[/spoilers]

I think that's about it. In other news, I'm aware that my forums have been down for the last couple of days. I don't know why. Just keep trying. That's all I can do.