Oh I definitely disagree with Whistler on that one! And I sort of suspect Buffy would to -although her "big moments" and mine are two different things proportionately. Are rescuing Spike in the cave or throwing away the stake and not dusting him "big things"? It depends on who you ask. Or showing kindness and compassion as she so often does? Every night she stakes a vampire, she saves someone's life, it's no big to her. It's her job. But all those things matter.

And I can see exactly why you chose what you did. By the end of S5 she's exhausted, terrified that "A Slayer is just a killer after all" and then comes back haunted, horrified and ashamed; her sacrifice and her choice dishonored. (And I know Willow really, genuinely meant well. She meant to rescue Buffy as Buffy had so often rescued them.) There's no pleasure in it anymore.

The only late season episode I can think of that would work is Showtime, and that's an "event" , theatrical, she's trying to teach the girls a lesson. And it shows in the fight - maybe there was a different fight trainer that season but that battle is often very crude, without the style and grace of many of Buffy's fights.