also, I can kill you with my brain

Buffy: Does it ever get easy?

Giles: You mean life?

Buffy: Yeah.

Buffy: Does it get easy?

Giles: What do you want me to say?

Buffy: Lie to me.

Giles: Yes, it’s terribly simple.

The good guys are always stalwart and true,

the bad guys are easily distinguished

by their point horns or black hats,

uh, we always defeat them and save the day,

and everybody lives happily ever after.

no one ever dies,

The final image is the Executive Producer credit.

Buffy: Liar.

(The penultimate image “no one ever dies,” is out-of-order; it should instead be the antepenultimate image, before “and everybody lives happily ever after.”)

I've gone. Not one for goodbyes, I thought it best to slip out quietly. Love to you all, Giles.

Marcia Lucas was the editor on 1983’s "Return of the Jedi" and the pre-"Star Wars" George Lucas-directed films "THX 1138" and "American Graffiti."

She was also part of the editing team for director Martin Scorsese’s 1970s films "Taxi Driver," "Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore" and "New York, New York."

Marcia Lucas was often called the unsung hero of "Star Wars," the original film that after sequels, prequels and spinoffs has come to be known by its subtitle, "A New Hope."

She convinced husband George that he should have Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by Alec Guinness, in his light saber battle with Darth Vader and become a spirit guide to Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker.

And she had to make sense of the raw footage that could’ve been a mess in the wrong hands, including the climactic rebel attack on the Death Star.

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My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.