Buffy RIP

I just watched the last episode of Buffy Season IV for the second time. Call me a sentimentalist, but I cried at the end. It wasn't because I thought Buffy was dead (well, no dead dead) since I knew there are seasons V and VI to come. I'm not even sure it was the heroic but rather cliched speech she made before. It certainly wasn't the intertextuality (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Aliens III). It might have been the whole Jesus-Beowulf-Dying-God thing. But probably it was watching Spike crack up.

Oh god, I'm starting to feel weepy again. Maybe it wasn't just Spike.