YMMV / Buffy the Vampire Slayer S7E22 "Chosen"

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Buffy's Love Confession to Spike; did she actually mean it, or was Spike correct in believing she'd only said it to Let Them Die Happy? Spike certainly seems to keep to his interpretation into his time on Angel Season 5 and even in later comic seasons when Buffy and Spike are a bonafide couple, the topic never comes up or receives any clarification (at least, not on-page).
• Angst? What Angst?: Buffy bisects Caleb, groin to noggin, and no one is upset. The last episode of the show begins with what has always been the ultimate no-no of the show - killing a human, and no one cares. Given Caleb is an Complete Monster Hate Sink who chose to become the human vessel of The First Evil... yeah.
• Anvilicious: Buffy's speech about "a bunch of men" and how Willow is more powerful than each of them is particularly un-subtle about female empowerment.
• Badass Decay: When the Turok-Han was first introduced, the "ubervamp" was so powerful that it just couldn't be stopped by any member of the Scooby gang and it almost killed Buffy. Twice. On the third try, Buffy kills it while giving a speech to all the Potentials and the Scoobies and Andrew, but just barely. After Willow turns all Potentials into Slayers, you can see a whole army of ubervamps go down like flies, as Buffy's army kill them as if they weren't stronger than regular vampires. And it's not only the power of a slayer; Robin and Giles and even Anya are seen killing a few of them!
• Broken Base: Anya's abrupt and sudden death in the middle of the battle. Word of God is that he wanted to show a major character dying in the heat of battle to establish that Anyone Can Die and not have a payoff like Spike's death. Fans are split over whether this was a good choice to sell the importance of the battle, or a disservice to a long running character. Emma Caulfield originally liked the idea and volunteered for Anya to die that way, but later said she felt it was too anti-climactic.
• Catharsis Factor: Buffy killing Caleb, one of the nastiest, most depraved villains in either series, via slicing him in half from the groin upwards.
• Continuity Lock-Out: The resolution hinges significantly on a plot device that originated on the Angel episode "Home" and only found its way to Buffy via a crossover episode on the other show. Good luck making sense of what was going on if you weren't watching both shows religiously.
• Fanfic Fuel: Angel and his crew forming that second front.
• He's Just Hiding:
  • There are some who like to think that Anya and Amanda could have survived the final battle, due to Anya seeming to go down too easy and Amanda being killed by something that isn't always fatal in real life (a Neck Snap).
  • Spike was killed off, but brought back for the final season of Angel. The WB's website was advertising Spike joining the cast the same day this episode aired, if not before. It irritated Joss Whedon since it prevented him from doing a shocking intro for anyone who had even looked at the website or read articles pertaining to the show.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Vi becoming the biggest badass out of the new slayers is funnily prophetic of how her actress would become the most notable of them.
  • Irritated by the jealousy between Spike and Angel, Buffy says "I should just put you two in a room so you can wrestle it out." This comes to pass in "Destiny", though it's considerably less sexy than she was picturing.
• Narm: Angel's line of "I ain't getting any older" may elicit some snickers from old-time Buffy fans who remember a distinctly more youthful-looking David Boreanaz in Season 1.
• Narm Charm: As cheesy as Buffy's "every girl" speech might be, Sarah Michelle Gellar's delivery and the epicness of the moment still make it powerful.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: When it comes down to it, Rona receives Slayer powers, fights valiantly in the final battle, kicks plenty of ass and survives.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: It is great to see Angel again, but it's a damn shame that issues with his show being on another network meant that he and the rest of the Fang Gang couldn't join the final battle.

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