Re-Watcher's Council | Buffy the Vampire Slayer S5E22 "The Gift" Spoiler Review | Season 5 Finale

This is it. The 100th episode. The Season 5 finale. The one that changes everything.This week on Re-Watcher's Council we're covering "The Gift" — and we are not going to pretend we held it together. Glory has Dawn. The portal is opening. And the only solution anyone can think of is the one Buffy has already refused to accept. So instead she does something else entirely. Something that's been quietly signposted all season long, from the First Slayer's message to the vision quest to every single episode of grief and loss and impossible love that came before it.We're breaking down the full final battle — the Buffybot fake-out, Xander proposing to Anya in the middle of the apocalypse (very him), Willow going full power to get Tara back, Giles making the hardest call of his life, Spike's heartbreaking moment with Buffy on the porch, Dawn's choice on the tower, and the ending that has wrecked Buffy fans for over two decades. We also dig into what this episode means as a potential series finale — because it absolutely works as one — and what it sets up going into Season 6.Season 5 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of the greatest seasons of television ever made. This finale is why.