Especially since there's only a small beginning of it in season five. And while it wasn't the most original plot twist ever, they did make it kind of credible and fitted it nicely into the other drama of season six.

Oh come on. She was awesome. I'm not sure about the season five ending, admittedly, but Glory had a ton of great lines and moments, and you've got to admit the Ben is Glory twist was a good one.

They were darker, of course, so perhaps less comedy and less fun, which is even more true for season seven. But the overarching story was stronger than in seasons two and three, which still had a few of the "monster of the week" episodes like in the first season, and the extended cast, as well as their older age and hence wider possibilities, made things quite interesting, I thought. It would've been unrealistic to keep going in the same vein as if nothing had happened, as if things were still as they were before, despite everything that happened in seasons two, three and four.

It had moments that were awesome, including the entirety of Conversations with Dead People, the Spike-Wood episode and everything involving Nathan Fillion, but yes, probably the weakest season except for one. As I said to Sophy, I thought all the additional characters cut into the screen time of the main cast, which left some of them with very few character development, while honestly the new characters weren't all that interesting except for Kennedy (and the girl in Conversations whose name I forget now). Not a big Faith fan, either, at least not in the way they handled her return. But then, supposedly it wasn't supposed to be the last season, so Whedon kind of had to improvise the series finale and all... perhaps it'd have been better otherwise.