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I watched it all on Netflix also. I did not like the ending either...cliff hanger to the max...assume they die.
They don't, well one of them technically does.(two if you count wesley, but he still hangs around)
Joss Whedon was able to continue the story via comic. The reason it's a cliff hanger was because the WB kicked the chair out from under them.
I loved and hated the last season, the story arcs, still reeling with the loss of cordelia and now introducing (finally) the consummation of fred and wesley to only turn around and rip out his heart.
http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/After_the_Fall - you can get the basic gist of each comic.
This is how the head of wb defended his decision.
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The only reason that Angel didn't come back...it's a very simple thing. Because our ratings were up, because of our critical attention, Joss specifically asked Jordan Levin, who was the head of The WB at the time, to give us an early pick-up because every year they [would] wait so long to give Angel a pick-up [and] a lot of us [would] turn down jobs hoping that Angel will continue– he [Joss] didn't want that to happen. So, he was feeling very confident and he [Joss] just asked Jordan, "Like, make your decision now whether you're going to pick us up or not," and Jordan, sort of with his hands tied, with his back up against the wall, called him the next day and said, "Okay, we're cancelling you." Jordan's no longer there and The WB has since recognized...I believe Garth Ancier at The WB said that it was a big mistake to cancel Angel. There was a power play that happened that just didn't fall out the way they wanted it to. We wanted to get an early pick-up, we didn't. In fact we forced them [the WB] to make a decision, and with his hand forced he [Levin] made the decision to cancel us. I guarantee that, if we waited as we normally did, by the time May had come around they would have picked up Angel. I can guarantee that.
It's funny that he was let go from the network. Still trying to save face with their stupid decision though, they blamed it on Joss, which is just too hilarious.
This post was edited by Arsenic_Touch on Feb 2 2013 02:58am