beer_good_foamy

Thanks for reading! Agree completely about "The Body", and there are definitely cases where there could have been more follow-up on deaths, but I guess... for one thing, most of them (Angel, Buffy, Tara, Anya, Spike) take place in or near the season finale, which means we don't see the characters for 3 months afterwards. And there are a few more cases; Jenny being one example, Giles is clearly out of sorts for several episodes afterwards (he's almost zombie-like in "Killed By Death" and "I Only Have Eyes For You", he almost gets in a fistfight with Xander at the mere mention of Jenny's name in "Becoming"). And of course, Fred's death destroys Wesley completely. But that said, I *am* a complete sucker for dealing-with-the-immediate-fallout-of-death fics (working on one about Giles post-"The Gift" right now) and it would have been nice to see more of that... realism on the show. Of course, considering how often people die in the Buffyverse, that could have been an entire spinoff series' worth of episodes... :-)