^ That's how it was for me, too. :nod: I tolerated SB before s7 so I didn't really expect what we got. Her logic just made no sense to me. It seemed like she just wanted Spike around because he'd mindlessly do as she wished. It's just a different form of her using him imo. In a way I feel like she cut her friends out and isolated herself so that they couldn't "have her back". Other characters made mistakes too and they didn't try to be there for her as much as they had before, but I feel like we still saw them try a little more. At least Xander did. Before the battle with Caleb he made that speech to the girls about how great and strong Buffy was. So for her to say Spike was the only one who had her back in the next episode was perplexing. Everyone feels out of character for me though, except maybe Andrew and I don't care about him anyway.