Further Notes From Buffy Five:

Giles is awesome. Giles is, like, made of awesome and kickass and also adorability. For some reason, there's nothing that makes me happier than those bits where Giles does the "stand up for Buffy and get all growly and Rippertastic" thing - and it will forever break my heart that he never got the chance to hand Riley a little bit of that whoopass.

Also? In my head, late Season Five is totally when Buffy and Giles started having sex. That whole "woe to me, I cannot feel" thing that B. was rocking. Clearly a plea for Giles' sexy, sexy body.