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How would you end it?

  
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
23:57 / 07.03.02
here is a thread about how you would end a movie/show diff than the writers did, or how you would end it if it has not ended yet

I begin with Buffy the Vampire Slayer

In a huge crossover event between buffy and angel angel returns to sunnydale with his gang to try and reach the hellmouth to, oh save the baby or something. What we then get is a Road Rules/Real World conflict between angel and his gang and the scoobies, who would of course want to stop them from opening said hellmouth.
heres the good bit----
In a final battle between the scoobies and the angels the hellmouth is partially opened and a pile of demons emerge, quickly killing the annoying chars (Gunn, Tara, maybe fred and groo).
Xander is killed trying to protect willow while she is working some mojo to close the hellmouth while Anya is forced to watch.
Anya snaps and the demon who was her boss (name?) grants her power back which leads her to reap her own vengence agains whoever is convienient (mainly wesley and perhaps giles). Buffy then kills anya
In her last breath (lying dramatically next to Xander) anya ressurects Xander who then with a surge of adrenaline kills both buffy AND angel while they are fighting.
When the smoke clears only Willow and Xander are left, willow cant do magic for some annoying plot wrap up and they wander off together.
The final shot is Spike and Dawn driving off in his painted over car with all of giles' books in the trunk.

Alternate ending---Spike kills everyone
 
 
Mazarine
00:54 / 08.03.02
My version, also crossovery: Angel gets Willow to reopen the gate into the dark dimension to go fetch his son, this of course pushes her back into black magic addiction. Buffy and Angel go in after his son, in one of those classic cheesy dilemmas, Angel has to decide if he's going to leave Buffy behind and- since he's not sure if he'll be able to save Connor again- does.

Angel comes back saying Buffy "didn't make it," which Xander and Willow don't buy. (Xander has gotten his ass back in the picture and, after some love advice from Spike, which seems to be the only friggin catalyst that fixes these things, he and Anya elope.) Xander and Tara, who has no fuzzy feelings towards Angel since he got Willow to go all bad magic again, resolve to kill Angel, Gunn and Fred sense this and don't trust them. Willow rips open the gate again in a less than subtle fashion to get Buffy back, she gets into a magickal brawl versus Wes and Giles (back for the congratulations, you eloped party). Ensuing melee: Cordy is killed by the ensuing demon parade pouring forth from the gate, the Groo-thing just lets himself be killed as a result. Tara tries to protect Willow and fend off Giles and Wes's assault, while trying to talk Willow back. Xander, Dawn and Anya are trying desperately to fight off demons with Gunn and Fred, Angel standing nearby, apparently torn between running with his son and staying to fight. This continues on until Buffy walks out of the gate. As soon as Willow sees that Buffy's made it out, she closes the gate and falls, exhausted. Tara catches her, and both are killed as Giles shoots Willow in the back, deciding that she's just too dangerous to live, saying he's truly sorry. Tara and Willow die in each others' arms.

Anya begs Xander and Dawn to come with her, but neither wants to leave Buffy. Meanwhile, Gunn is still fighting the last demon, which he kills, Fred nursing a broken arm when Angel comes up to her and tears her throat out. Getting son out of hell = true happiness = Angelus. Gunn, Wesley and Angel fight it out, and Gunn and Wesley disheartened by Fred's death, lose in a gorey fatal way. Xander goes to help Buffy only to be punched in the jaw by Giles and stuffed into a car. Giles then goes to help Buffy, only to be punched in the jaw by her, and stuffed into the same car. Buffy tells Dawn to go grab the baby, which she does, but she still won't leave. Anya and Dawn watch as Angelus and Buffy fight to the last among the bodies of demons and their friends. Buffy wins and stakes Angelus, but is fatally injured. She tells Anya to take Dawn and Xander and the baby and get the hell away from Sunnydale, go someplace else and have a normal life, and dies. The last scene is a tearful Anya and Dawn, holding Connor, an unconscious Giles and Xander, driving away from the bodies towards the sunrise.
 
 
The Natural Way
07:45 / 08.03.02
I've posted this elsewhere, but...

Final series Buffy:

Vampires all the way. The Master. The final demon. Full circle, but this time they're grown ups. It's the scourging of the shire time. Sunnydale becomes vampville (a la 'The Wish'), and "the home" must be saved/cleansed before Buffy and Angel either both become human and/or march off into the sunset.

Unpack this loose sketch of a plot and it's real neat.
 
 
Trijhaos
07:45 / 08.03.02
I like the whole crossover deal and the big final showdown thing. The one thing I'd like to see is a part where Angel loses his soul, most of the rest of the gang is either dead or severly wounded. The last two left standing are Angelus and Buffy. They fight, blah blah blah. Get into all the nifty things you can.

Somewhere in the fight Buffy begins to falter, Angelus sees his opportunity and strikes.....what's this, Spike got in the way? He looks deeply into Buffy's eyes, murmurs "I love you" and dies. At this moment, Buffy realizes that yes, she loves Spike, and redoubles her efforts. Eventually, Buffy is able to overcome Angelus.

She's the last one standing. The end right? Not so. One of the higher powers up there gives Buffy a choice for her service to the world. 1. Return to the place she was ripped from when the gang performed that spell or 2. She can have all her friends revived. Spike and Angel will be returned to life as humans. At the end have Buffy say "I choose...." and let the credits roll. There you go. You got action, adventure, romance, and a cliff-hanger ending. The message boards will be flooded. "What did Buffy choose and why?". Did she do the right thing and revive her friends or did she go the selfish route?
 
 
Tom Coates
07:45 / 08.03.02
I think the ending of the final series of Buffy has to be something fairly huge - but I don't know that it's huge in the way that you think it's huge...

It has to be a triumphant moment for Buffy, who has been cheerful, lost her way, died, come back and can't get connected to the world.

So it has to end with Buffy being at her finest - and I'm thinking something absolutely fucking vast here... I'm thinking Vampire Judgment Day - Think world-wide graduation day, when the whole world realises the Vampire threat...

So I'm thinking that you set it up with crossovers between Buffy and Angel, in which Angel is put into an impossible situation.

Possibly this is a crossover with Buffy in that Willow - frustrated by her friend's inability to understand her access to power abandons Sunnydale and begins to cause mayhem in LA. Angel barely subdues her before Buffy arrives causing a huge fight and disaster... In the next episode of Buffy, she is in LA and she and Angel hunt down Willow - and at the climax - Willow gives Angel an insight into her newfound darkness and Angel keeps hold of it and drags it into himself - saving Willow (or so it seems) - he is experienced in holding in dark impulses...

Over the series it gradually becomes clear that Angel is acting more and more erratically - until finally it transpires that he's (as Willow had before him) been inhabited by a tiny fragment of The Master, that has been growing within him... Cordelia calls Buffy in before this realisation is made, but she can't do anything - Cordelia abandons Angel to return to Sunnydale under the directorion of the Powers. Willow - on the other hand - is summoned back to LA - eyes aglowing....

In a terrible act of horror, Angel - and his newly made vampire partner in Evil, Willow - possessed by the Master - devours his own child - triggering a massive spell that brings back every vampire who has ever been back from the dead - world-wide...

Cordelia meanwhile has been with Buffy - her eyes have been glowing too, in an entirely differently alarming way... Buffy's life has been barely kept on track after her death - she's found focus, but she still has no joy in her work... Her relationship with Spike has been ended, although he still loves her... When Cordelia arrives she arrives with the force of a bullet - as if she'd been possessed - and she moves towards Buffy robotically, occasionally actually levitating. When she touches her, Buffy gets a flash of deaths - death upon death upon death...

Spike comes to her and talks about how something seems to have changed within him - and that the vampires he's met no longer seem able to sire new ones... Buffy talks to him about her vision of death and suddenly sees Spike in one of them - she's experienced the deaths of two of the slayers!

With Angel, Willow and their vampire army moving to claim the hellmouth - Buffy breaks into a desperate town meeting and takes to the stage. She delivers a speech about the strangeness of Sunnydale life and how it's time that everyone accepted it - that they faced the fact that they live in a vampire-infested world rather than pretending it didn't exist - that the world was full of problems, but that all their problems could be solved by working together and addressing them... - Buffy realises that this is a message that it was time she heard as well - that the world should be working together - that the responsibility for safety should be on everyone's shouders...

At this point all the demon denizens of Sunnydale arrive - it looks like there's going to be a fight, but it rapidly transpires that this is a battle between Vampires and everyone else... Humans and demons stare and circle around one another warily, until the meeting is broken into by the first wave of Vampires - everyone fights and everyone fights together....

For old times sake, Angel and his vampires decide to hole up at the Bronze - where an unconscious Buffy is dragged in - she was knocked out by a vast team of vampires while running to save Dawn...

Willow is now all dyky evil vampire willow again and decides she wants to play with Buffy and decides to drink her dry... Angel bats her aside and says that he wants to taste her one last time - because once humanity has been eradicated, there will be no one left to take on the role... He drinks and drains her to the last drop and she falls down dead. He smiles and licks the last trace of blood from his lips. In a cell somewhere far away, Faith has a fit and falls unconscious...

Suddenly consumed by power the Master within Angel drags himself free of Angel's body and Willows and forms himself a new form. Willow and Angel fall to the ground unconscious...

And Buffy finds herself in a desert around a fire - there's the first slayer in front of her, and all around her shadowy figures... She demands to know why she's there - there's a flash of deaths, and she falls towards the edge of the circle, reeling... And who should hold her up... but Faith - who has been wearing a cowl... Buffy starts and moves backwards. Faith reassures her that there's something going on that's larger than any of their petty differences... Buffy walks backwards into another figure and tries to claw her way out... But it's Kendra... She's in the presence of every slayer there has ever been.... And now they have a job to do...

And back in the Bronze Buffy immediately stands up.... And around the world, in places over-run by vampires, figures appear - thousands of slayers reborn for one epic last battle....

Back in the bronze, the Master and Buffy fight on - she's about to get swamped by hordes of vampires when the collective demons and citizens of Sunnydale fight their way in and attack. Suddenly it's Buffy versus the Master one on one...

Giles, Xander and Anya meanwhile have been looking after Cordelia, who fell into a coma when she allowed the powers to talk to Buffy.. She suddenly wakes with a start - she knows how to end this curse of vampires - she knows how to kill the Master. A vampire with a soul must sacrifice themselves - must take death willingly in a ritual... Giles and Xander run to the Bronze... and burst in on the Master and Buffy fighting...

Seeing Angel they run towards him, drag him out and and he immediately agrees to the ritual - Willow, now purged of evil, agrees to perform it... But she can't muster the spell, and Angel in the circle isn't doing anything... Willow is powerless... And Angel.... no longer is a vampire... The master has pulled the very vampire essence out of both of them....

Cut to a crypt underground - as Buffy fights and fights, gradually losing - Spike stands by himself in a circle... There's a tear in his eye... And he's reading a spell... Cordelia and Anya burst in - they've guessed what he's attempting... They cry - but you have no soul.... and he replies.. how can that be true - I have loved pure and true, I have fought for what I care about - I'm not what I was. I'm not a monster any more... And it's time I proved that to all of you... And with a silver blade to the chest, a flash of pure light burns through him and he falls dead to the ground - not like a vampire, but like a human...

In the bronze the Master wavers - and buffy stands... "I've figured it out," she says, "It's not about me, it's not about you, it's about us.. it's about the world.. it's about fighting for what you believe in... standing up for what you know is right... Never in my life have I been more sure of anything than I am right now. You are a vampire... And I am the slayer....." And with a stroke to the chest the Master explodes.... Around the world vampires feel his passing and run from battle....

End with a romantic moment between Buffy and Angel... and then after the credits..... Darlo appears - fanged and hungry... "Whatever you think... It's nowhere near over yet......" CUT!

Grrr. Argh.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
07:45 / 08.03.02
I have no words to express how much this thread disturbs me.
 
 
The Natural Way
07:45 / 08.03.02
Apart from the Darla bit:

"Now, thass what I'm talking about".

God, that would rock.
 
 
Trijhaos
07:45 / 08.03.02
My God...that's beautiful.

You're really Joss Whedon aren't you?
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
07:45 / 08.03.02
How I would have ended Quantum Leap (With a nod to Philip K Dick) : He finds a way home, but the system fucks up and instead of leaping into just his own body, his tulpa splits into millions of copies and inhabits every single person in the future.
Cue simultaneous, worldwide 'Oh boy!'...
 
 
Tom Coates
11:32 / 08.03.02
I really should get a job doing the plotting for TV series...
 
 
Tom Coates
11:49 / 08.03.02
Bizunth: > swoon < - your mind is really dreamy....
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
11:49 / 08.03.02
Actually, despite my ongoing distaste for hype proliferated series that have resulted in such things as the shuddersome evil that is the paperback edition of the Necronomicon, I would have to say yes. that's some very good creative stuff and I think that channeled properly you could perform the duties of a plotter with excellence.


Edited to add that my ending involved a Dark Angel/Smallville/etc crossover apolcalypse and a sworn testament from Network managers to pool more money into bringing Channel 4 style programming in the vein of fourmations, Love Bites series and the subversive documentaries.

[ 08-03-2002: Message edited by: H ]
 
 
The Strobe
12:09 / 08.03.02
OK... this isn't so much "how would you end" as "how would you continue to an end", I'm asking the question because I'm trying to work out an answer for myself, but also because I think other people may or may not find it interesting, maybe TC.

Anyhow:

in an alternate, parallel universe, Ultraviolet gets given that vital second series. This is the second, final series; six episodes to round off the tale left hanging when Michael couldn't decide what to do. It's got to be more inventive. It's got to be bigger. And it's got to be more topical (and maybe more sensitive this time around). All I've got in my head so far is more complex conspiracy, better action, but crucially, most of the first episode without (bloody) Michael. We've got to step up the threat to get him to return. The whole "black out the world" thing didn't work; so the leeches need a new plan. Oh, and I'm thinking of either adding more team members, or broadening the outfit... or perhaps involving international departments of the Inquisition. That'd be fun.

But yeah. Ultraviolet, series 2, the big one. Go.
 
 
kid coagulant
12:42 / 08.03.02
Buffy, in order to save the world, must don waterskiis and jump a demon shark who has been terrorizing swimmers. Then the whole gang forms a band called Buffy and the Vampire Slayers, hops on the space shuttle, goes off into outerspace.
 
  
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