Very different tone from the original! I think gabrielle summed it up best - and gabrielle knows from the dark. ;)

(And also, kudos for dropping the sex, Not that it doesn't have its place but you know me.)

I've never understood btw why Buffy/Giles shipping is so popular but not Willow/Giles. I assumed she had a crush on him from the way she looked up at him (and up to him) in the early seasons long before it became text in Where The Wild Things Are. They seem like a nifty pairing, share dark pasts and had that summer together in England. (Unless there's a tribe of W/G shippers I don't know about somewhere.)