If youre a die-hardAngelfan, you might remember watching the series finale and thinking,No!

What?And you werent alone.

The conversation covered everything from on-set explosions (We flooded theRoswellstages!

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says Charisma Carpenter, who played cheerleader-turned-hero Cordelia Chase) to, of course, that divisive final episode.

Its very important to me that something goes out as strong as can be, Whedon tells EW.

And there was enough time for us to take it where we thought it should go.

When the final episode ofAngelaired, audiences were split on the seemingly open ending.

Yet today the finale is revered by critics as one of the best in TV history.

Lets go to work.

Whedon knows what youre thinking, but he doesnt agree.

That aint a cliff, he says.

The fight is for always.

It was hard, and I think we all thought there was more to be told.