Another episode I liked. The test made sense to me. The council tests the slayer by taking away her powers and sees if she can defeat a vampire with cunning and ingenuity. If she fails, dead slayer, so another one is called. A way to ensure that they have a good slayer. Ofcourse that wouldn't work for Buffy dieing but its traditional so there is no way in hell they can change it
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not at episode, just watchers council.)
Gile's betraying Buffy and then helping her was interesting and a nice bit of character development. And Buffy's line about seeing what there is and not being able to go on ignoring it was a classic (well not quite but memorable nonetheless.)