Exactly, there's a lot of things Buffy should have already had her mind on, but the blackening out is high up there. I mean, she's not a booze-hound. She's not gotten really drunk since BeerBad, so the moral of the story is that Buffy is never allowed to drink more than a few sips of alcohol or else something horrible happens?

Also, I'm not exactly enjoying the slight retconning of Nikki's story from the TOTS canon comic to make her somewhat younger and make her seem more vulnerable. Her lover got murdered by vampires and was a cop... and if he's supposed to be Robin's father, then there would be pension benefits and such for the him. I just... The whole thing with Nikki bothers me a lot, and I know a lot of people probably don't agree, but I really didn't like her getting a different actress and then the whole flip-flopping "She had a death wish."/"The mission is what matters."/"He threatened MAH BAYBEE!!!" statements. Is this supposed to be Buffy? She decides not to go through with her pregnancy, then decides to keep it, and then later discovers that the baby is a hinderance on her ability to do what matters to her (whether or not she wants to admit it) until she eventually dies and the kid becomes someone else's burden? I just don't know.