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Monday 6 June 2005, by Rosie Powell : I have a major problem with this critical view of Season 7. In fact, I get the feeling that the reviewer wanted the show to go back to what it used to be in the past - when the Scoobies had a villain that Buffy could literally kill. And how, exactly, would they face themselves or deal with the darkness of the First? Have a conversation with oneself on screen? What made the First so effective is that it was so insidious. Did the reviewer ever notice that the First faced the others when he/she/or they were alone and besieged with their fears, anger and other negative emotions? I also believe that the reviewer failed to notice many signs that indicate how the season was going to end. But I especially wanted to criticize the reviewer for failing to notice something about Buffy’s relationship with the other Scoobies - the older Buffy became, the more the Scoobies became less important in her story. Naturally this was going to happen, because the older the main characters got, the more they would drift apart from one another. Season 4’s "Restless" had forseen this. Did the reviewer expect the Scoobies to escape this fate? Had the reviewer forgotten how people basically drift away from high school friends, as one gets older? I guess not. These comments are an anwser to this article : Before the End : A Critical Evaluation of Season Seven
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