Having decided that neither ‘Chosen’ nor Season Seven in general is a suitable end to Buffy, I’m now left with the task of working out where the show DOES end. The alternatives are:

Season 3: The show is therefore only a show about high school, but doesn’t really end on an important emotional note — the characters don’t really learn anything about themselves.

Season 4: Ends with ‘Restless’, which is almost reason enough to stop the series here. The characters drift apart, then come together to defeat their enemy.

Season 5: Cons — highly crap for large stretches, with stupid things like Glory and those dumb knights running around. Pros — it does contain the death of Joyce, Spike’s backstory, and ‘The Gift’, which has that cool flashback-ey “Previously, on Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.

I’m leaning towards 4, but 5 is a much rounder number.

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