Season 7 gets all dark and emo, and can be a bit much after a while; Buffy, in particular, handles her slayette-gang so totally and utterly ineptly that you want to slap her silly and take over. I do love the season finale, though. Satisfyingly epic, with interesting feminist wossnames. And a lovely Spike-heroism moment.

Much of the chore of the season and over-emofication of Spike is, to me, redeemed by Principal Wood, who's rather beautiful and who effectively spanks Faith as she badly needs to be spanked :>.