Did you rewatch Season 3 first so you'd have Saint Cordelia fresh in your mind for comparison?

I'm finding S4 not!Cordy on Angel much much more annoying on rewatch.

I'm with you there. Beau and I watched the Jasmine arc - because he hadn't ever seen it, and I hadn't seen it since first airing - about a month ago and I just sat there shaking my head. I find the whole thing a little incomprehensible.

Did you rewatch Season 3 first so you'd have Saint Cordelia fresh in your mind for comparison?

Yeah. I didn't hate S3 Cordelia at all, except for the bs about her and Angel being in love. Which I didn't buy at all.

::does the dance of No Longer Alone::

sj and Cass are me -- I slammed all of S7 last year in about four days while trapped on bedrest, and it improves phenomenally on rewatch without the damn seven eternities between episodes. And the cringey eyerolly Giles Is Dead thing is much more easily ignored. All the things that irritated everyone: Not Dead Giles, Buffy's pontificating, Kennedy, the horde of potentials, Too Much Andrew -- feel so much less annoying, so much more balanced and proportionate and sense-making when the story isn't chopped up and scattered to the four winds, but allowed to march along in rapid, orderly, momentum-building progression.

And the cringey eyerolly Giles Is Dead thing is much more easily ignored.

I usually don't spoil TCG for what is coming up in Buffy, but I did tell him that Giles wasn't dead and to ignore that part. I couldn't put another person through that.

I think also not sitting there and wondering, if this is going to be a spin off or is that going to be a spin off helps tremendously. I can just enjoy it for what it is.

I'm sure that it has been read by many of you before, but I just went through this entire List of 100 top moments in Buffy and it made me all sniffly. The author and I share similar loves for Willow and Tara/Willow, and her top three or four moments mesh with mine perfectly. The top 20 have clips!

That is good to hear about season 7 - I didn't hate it , but I wasn't sure where it stood as a whole in my brain. Now I can rewatch the whole thing at once and see if I agree with you all

I watch S7 as it aired in the UK, which was weekly. Which probably explains why I don't hate it. I haven't seen it since it aired.

You know, I was never worried when it aired that Giles was dead. I always assumed he survived, for whatever reason.

I think by the time I got to season seven I was used to things not turning out the way I expected, so if the show seemed to be implying that Giles was dead that must mean that he's not.

Yeah, that was my internal reasoning. Plus, if freaking Giles was gonna die they would make a big deal out of it and not just tack it on the end of an episode. (Well, he wasn't Tara, anyway).