Okay. So. Maybe this will not be a popular opinion. But I love the scene at the end where Buffy gets confronted by the potentials and the Scoobies and the Giles about her poor leadership and lack of good judgment. Dammit, it's so true. Buffy has been nothing more than a speechifying obnoxiousness for most of the season. I hate the potentials as much as anybody else, but when they call her out on her preferential treatment of Spike, I'm like, "YES! THANK YOU!" Buffy has been soft on the issue of Spike for many seasons now and has never been objective regarding him. How many people would still be alive if she had staked him back in season 2 instead of simply "banishing" him from Sunnydale after the events of "Becoming"? (As long as he's not killing people in her backyard I guess it's not her problem.) And yet Buffy was willing to kill Anya earlier this season for getting rid of a few frat boys nobody was going to miss. I will never, ever, ever believe anyone who tries to convince me that she has ANY reason to keep Spike alive apart from her feelings for him.
On another note, I wish Xander had more of a reaction to Faith coming back to town after she, you know, sexually assaulted/tried to murder him back in season three. But he just seems cool with living in the same house with her, which is weird.
Anyway. That's all I really have to say about this episode. Watching Buffy get thrown out of her own house gives me serious schadenfreude. Maybe it'll wake her up to the fact that she DID get Potentials killed through complete recklessness. The fact that she keeps telling everyone to shut up and "fall in line" after accepting NO responsibility for that debacle...yeah. I am not on your side either, Buffy.
On another note, I wish Xander had more of a reaction to Faith coming back to town after she, you know, sexually assaulted/tried to murder him back in season three. But he just seems cool with living in the same house with her, which is weird.
Anyway. That's all I really have to say about this episode. Watching Buffy get thrown out of her own house gives me serious schadenfreude. Maybe it'll wake her up to the fact that she DID get Potentials killed through complete recklessness. The fact that she keeps telling everyone to shut up and "fall in line" after accepting NO responsibility for that debacle...yeah. I am not on your side either, Buffy.