A review by torts
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8: Omnibus, Volume 2 by Joss Whedon

2.0

Reeeally seemed like they wrote themselves into a corner with the time travel and the fate stuff, and they ended up

leaning really hard into the "fate" part of it and taking away everyone's agency to make Twilight and Buffy just do nonsense to drive the plot toward...nothing? ...Like, none of the plot points were actually pointing toward the conclusion. Weird and disappointing. AND HOW DARE THEY DO THAT TO GILES. I've read enough spoilery summaries of the comics to know they bring him back (kind of), but it was still like the final straw of violent shocking twists that don't actually make sense.

Definitely way less fun than the first half of Season 8, and the blood and (censored) cursing and (mostly censored) sex seemed even more gratuitous. :/