Willow ranks near te top of my list as one of the show's best Big Bads for their season

So unexpected.
The Mayor I think is really close to her in how cool of a villain there has been. Amazingly played, down to the idiosynchrocies, by Ian Abercombre(sp?). Great villain.
Anyway, what was I saying? Oh yeah

What I like about these group of episodes is what they're about. They're about loss. Willow's trying to deal with it, and shows how much she's hurting inside through her anger. I think that's what makes the episodes so great, we can all relate to it by having iether lost someone we love or love someone enough to feel what she's feeling should they suddenly be taken from us.