ConReport. In progress. I meant to finish it this afternoon but I had to spend two hours installing MT Blacklist. I'm going to be leaving comments open now, to see if it works.

In the meantime, naturally I've been SpikeFesting.

Angel S5. Finished. (The Sentinel and DS stories should move faster now.)

Read the hidden stuff only if you're okay with spoilers, cause that's all you'll find.

Angel and Cordy had a Thing?

I thought Cordy had died before S5, so imagine my surprise to find out she was only comatose. Joss does love to put characters into a coma, doesn't he?

I didn't know Gunn-and-Fred as a combo, so I'm sure I missed most of the drama of him being the one to betray her to her death. I barely knew Wes-loves-Fred. I barely knew Fred and have no idea why her death was so much worse for the group than anyone else's. (I mean...Cordy died, and by the next episode, no one was talking about it. Was that because she'd been in a coma for so long, or did it have something to do with hints I got of her having been Possessed Of An Evil before that time?)

Moving on...

Evil Muppets! How could they?

I forgive them only for the joy of MuppetAngel. Those little fingers! And his nose came off!

And the VampMuppetAngel was doubly delicious.

MuppetAngel fighting with Spike! Too funny for words.

Andrew! I loved NewAndrew.

Angel and Spike going after Buffy!

No...Buffy doesn't want them any more. She's moving on, and they need to do the same.

So, Angel and Spike move on...with each other?

(Heh. Seems clear to me.)

The finale?

I can't believe Joss dButch-and-Sundanced finale. I'm just...astounded.

I mean...Butch and Sundance?*

So...my sister suggests that, as the Demon Hordes approach, Buffy and her army of Slayers come out of the woodwork to fight on the side of Angel & Co.

I'm thinking...Riley and the NewInititative bunch should show up, too. (A few shots from an armload of hand-held rocket launchers into the middle of the Horde would do some good.)

And let's not forget Giles's magic connections. He knows of at least one extremely powerful coven in Devon. Surely they could do something?

And Willow...they have Willow. A few blasts of magic into the heart of the Horde might be amazingly useful.

They might have made it.

I mean, there's no reason to believe that wossname's entire cadre of 40,000 demon warriors were inspired to come after the boys. In fact, that would probably have made a bigger noise than the PissedOff Powers Of Evil were quite ready to create.

So...figure the POP O'Evil sent just a handful of meanies to deal with these two Ensoulled Vamps. How many is reasonable to insure they're gonna die?

Double that, because evil is always excessive and then double that for the Pissed Off factor.

Whaddya think? 500 assailants to kill the three of them?

If you get Buffy and a hundred or two hundred Slayers, the NewInitiative, and the Magical Powers into the mix? Barely a contest.

A thousand? More of a contest, but survivable.

After all. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid survived.

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* Allow me to mention how lame that whole thing was. Maybe in the context of all five years of the show it worked, but not for me. Angel's out there, all soulled up and with a posse o'heroes, fighting the good fight and then he decides to end it all....to annoy his enemy for a few minutes? How dumb was that?

In a way, it's kind of unfair. When Buffy decided there was someone she couldn’t sacrifice (the annoying and completely replaceable Dawn), she sacrificed herself, but she left the group intact, to move on, live on, and make their own choices.

Angel couldn't stand that Fred was already dead, so he asked everyone to die, for love of Fred? That's cold. And, ultimately, kind of stupid. And entirely unfair. You can love someone, deeply and sincerely, without having to prove it by killing yourself after they're dead.