The spectacular end to season five

The Gift was awesome. I had a very good feeling about season five. I loved the fact that in the fifth season of a show, you�re not tanked and you�re not running out of ideas but you�re actually picking up steam.

I think that season six is also very, very strong. I don�t know of many television shows that are really strong in their sixth year and I feel great about where we are right now. The Gift was an end and a new beginning, obviously. All great, hugely emotional, it was a big payoff not just to season five but a big pay off to the series.

And Buffy died. It really is the ultimate thing a Slayer can do. At the end of season One she died because they didn�t know if they were coming back [for a second season] or not, and it makes sense that the way a Slayer�s story ends is with her death.

Every Slayer�s been killed before Buffy, some day Buffy�s going to die and that day actually came and went twice now. The Gift is a phenomenal episode> it�s also coincidentally the 100th episode of the series and tied everything up in a really nice bow.

As Joss Whedon said when we watched the episode at his house, "Yeah I make women�s pictures with fisticuffs in them." God bless him.