Continuity
- The twelfth episode of the season is generally the episode in which Buffy has her birthday. Apart from the first season, which was a mid-season replacement and probably began just after Buffy's sixteenth birthday, this is the only season where Buffy's birthday is not only un-celebrated but also unacknowledged. In the birthday episode of the previous season, "Older and Far Away", Spike suggested Buffy should not celebrate her birthday anymore.
- Amanda's comment that most students think Buffy is a high-functioning schizophrenic relates back to the episode "Normal Again," in which Buffy is diagnosed with schizophrenia in the mental hospital reality
- Dawn's observation to Xander that he is the one who 'sees' things foreshadows Caleb later also saying this and then subsequently permanently injuring Xander's physical sight.
- Buffy comments in her short speech after breaking up the giggling potentials' chatter that one of them could become the next slayer if she dies. This is incorrect as her first death at the end of season 1 called Kendra, technically ending her time as the slayer in the line (the fact that she was revived and still lives as a slayer is an anomaly). When Kendra dies by the hand of Drusilla, that called Faith. It would not be Buffy's death but Faith's that would call a new slayer. If the comment was true, a new slayer should have been called when Buffy dies at the end of season 5. Joss Whedon has said himself in an interview that the "trigger" so to speak had been passed to Kendra then Faith. However, because of the mystical resurrection Buffy was prey to in the season six premiere, it is believed that this reassociated her with the slayer line, and would now make her death call a new slayer.
- When Dawn is thought to be a Potential, Willow says that it would make sense because she shares blood with Buffy, then Anya goes on to say that she "never really got that", referencing the fan confusion over the subject.
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