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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 100725" data-attributes="member: 259">This was my favorite episode since "Once More, with Feeling."  I was skeptical about the "Is the whole world just a hallucination?" plotline, but I think it was handled quite well:  the vampworld and the hospitalworld were equally plausible, the motives for the characters in each world could equally be interpreted as dangerous hallucinatory fragments of Buffy's own personality, and Spike's and Mom's speeches to Buffy balanced each other very well.  I was expecting, in the final shot, for the doctor and Mom and Dad to morph into demons, or for the hospital room to be floating in a void -- but Joss, bless his evil heart, didn't make it so easy on us.IANAD, but did the shrink's advice to Buffy -- to kill off all her fantasy friends -- sound like singularly bad advice to anyone else?  Even if she were crazy, it doesn't seem like good advice to give to a girl who fantasizes about being a hero; rather, it seems custom-designed to drive her away.  Had I been the doctor, I would have told her to go back to the fantasy world and give her powers to the peopel that lived there, so they could function without her.Of course, if I'd been the evil hallucinations of a demon, I would've told her to kill her friends.Daniel</blockquote>