Suggested conclusions for Buffy the Vampire Slayer
by Peony
We can begin by killing off trite Caleb and annoying Kennedy next week, in that little segment that comes before the opening credits.
Buffy rejoins the Scoobies, everyone kisses and makes up. Buffy does not antagonize Faith. They make plans to enter the Hellmouth and defeat the First.
As they pack up their weapons and get ready to head over to ol’ Sunnydale High, there is an urgent knock at the door. They all look up, startled. Giles yells, “No time, we need to get going!” Someone (perhaps a suspicious Faith) opens the door anyway, and there at the door stands…Giles! Everyone is so confused, new-Giles leaps over and helps grab old-Giles. Turns out that the Giles we’ve been dealing with all season is somehow in the employ of the First! (Who saw that coming?!)
Good Giles tells them what he’s been up to and shares some information. (The Scoobies, in turn, quickly fill him in on the events of Season 7, much to the relief of people who have tuned in late to see what all the commotion is about.) Evil Giles gets some taunting in before he is either mined for information or dispatched.
Off to the Hellmouth. Much fighting, including some special effects for which they broke the piggy bank. An “ultimate sacrifice” scenario develops in which Buffy must be willing to consciously sacrifice herself to defeat the First; perhaps some new supernatural entity offers her this chance. Buffy takes it.
Option A: In the end, Buffy finds herself alive….but without her Slayer powers. One of the SiTs assumes Slayer duties, perhaps with Xander as a Watcher. Buffy goes to England to reinstate the Watcher HQ and maybe start a Slayer academy.
Option B: Buffy gets to keep her powers but still goes to England (or someplace more to her liking) to found the Slayer Academy. I would not mind if she comes to her senses, marries Xander, and brings him along with her to run the Watcher side. They both come back for movies as needed.
Meanwhile, Spike and Angel become friends after having fought side by side. Buffy comes to the tristful conclusion that she is not meant to be together forever with Spike OR Angel, but only as needed to make movies. So Spike heads off to LA to be on Angel’s show, perhaps bringing an SiT along with him.
Either way, I would like an end involving Buffy alive and Xander married to someone.