Jaime Weinman has an unfortunately trenchant analysis of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Spike, he contends, has ruined Buffy. Spike is the sort of cool guy who used to push around the geeks and outsiders the series used to celebrate. The show was better, Weinman says

when the focus was on four uncool people and their quest to rid the world of … well, of characters like Spike.

Since I’ve been rooting for Spike ever since the shocking conclusion of last year’s episodes (no, I’m not being snarky), and since I have a teenage daughter who roots for Spike for somewhat different reasons, I don’t like having these particular scales pulled from my eyes. But I’m afraid he’s right.

What’s worse: I’m going to be on a plane during the series finale.

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