Good story. Though to be honest, I thought it would be a little better.

That's so great… It's a real quote, but sounds like a line from Family Guy.

Buffy's and Willow's tears, and Giles' fatherly love, are at the very heart and soul of this amazing show.

We can put that entirely on Joss, by way of the people decidedly less visionary than Joss whom he put in charge of BTVS while he developed multiple other TV series. (He continues to insist that he was there, his guiding hand doing for S4+ what it always did, but it just can't be completely true.) SMG was fantastic…

That was in season 4; I wonder if it's related to my pet theory about much of S5, that the actors' performances started to show visible and audible signs of their disappointment that the writing had gotten so bad.

Inca Mummy Girl is nowhere near as lame as Go Fish. The girl who played Ampata was lovely and did a good job, and the creepy climax when she almost kills Xander was very tense. I always thought that most of Buffy's monster-of-the-week eps had some fine things about them, which get steamrolled by people's memories of…

The rare great moment in that piece-of-shit episode Doomed (which had the especially tough job of following Hush).

Oof, that painting looks like Beavis And Butthead Do The Undead.

And you didn't even mention the other travesty of Dead Man's Party, which is that Kendra's death (y'know, Kendra? Buffy's kindred, the OTHER SLAYER?) is glossed over with an insulting quip. Oh yeah, so Buffy, you're not wanted for murder anymore; "Mmm, that was a drag." Well, that story's all cleaned up! WTF were…

I love that term; I always picture a big barge somewhere between Bermuda and the Azores, full of well-dressed people who sound like Katharine Hepburn.

Not surprisingly, those three were all written and directed by Whedon, and Passion is said to be heavily re-written by him (as he did on many others to some degree, but especially that crucial episode). The sequence of landmarks representing the show's first major arc of development, Prophecy Girl - When She Was Bad…

Those damn shoddy Gypsy curses… But yeah, they didn't quite think that one through.

What, your town has no schools?

So I guess this week of Buffy interviews is starting from the most frustrating era and (hopefully) working up from there?… (I know a lot of people love the late seasons, but it really was like a totally different show by then.)

Yup, that's an upvote for 'Ginatown

I think a certain blue monster on these boards would like to have a word with you about identity theft.

Well, duh.

Biden can help you dry off the ol' chesticles. Then he might invite you to join him in Austin, to throw back a few of those "craft" brewskies he keeps hearing about.

That moment in The Wish when he grabs Buffy as the eerie music rises to climax, and snaps her neck… She goes limp, and the image blanches toward nothingness, as if the whole world of the show as we knew it had never come to be… Powerful stuff.

I defer to Passion Of The Nerd on Youtube, who gives a strong answer:
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