Buffet a la Buffy... Holy shit.

Seriously, that ending is effing traumatizing. My god, why didn't they think of the Thor's hammer-esque thing before? Or the orb for that matter (which gets me again because why did Buffy toss the thing to Glory if Glory could easily smash it?).

Willow is becoming quite the strong sorceress. One, she got back Tara (yay!) and they cleared a path for Spike too (double yay!) (but then Spike didn't do much except stall for time). I wonder what kind of reprocussions she'll suffer for using the dark arts though...

It's really nice to see Giles' "ripper" side again. From the part where he yelled at Buffy (a nice change from the blubbering idiot) to Tara's foreshadow of his deed, I knew he'd surface again. Just goes to show that the plucky librarian type is never who he seems.

Anya's humanism speech in this episode seemed... out of place. It did well to show how fear manages to penetrate everything we do (even in the act of and euphoria after sex) and how no matter what we do it'll always be there. Xander's proposal... could have been done better. So much better.

What I'm curious is how Spike will manage to go on for the next season.

Personally, I say that the open-portal thing should have been incorporated into the episode of Angel when they came home. The ending for Angel was equalling shocking though...

... damn you television and your 3 month waiting periods!

(hmm... wonder what'll be said here after the show has been reviewed...)

(and wasn't the grave by the same tree where Buffy and Angel were cuddling last?)