I'm sure the network was proud of this finding. Making the show more appealing to early 2000s younger audience. Was so wrong. The potentials are a bunch of stereotypes. And the actresses they picked as regulars or cameos, don't fit the spirit of the show. At least the one of these past six years... This shift of tone is shocking, when you think of « day one » people, agreeing to it... Killing off the Chaka Kahn, an episode earlier, prevented us from another corny looking monster, this season. But everything that happened in Potential, was painful to watch. It's like the show is written by clueless people, who joined the writing team only recently. Spike and Buffy acting like they were in a middle of a fan fiction, Dawn (the former key to open the gates of hell) turning out to be the new slayer (!?) Only not really, because Amanda (???) is... And the return of the most cartoonish and random nice demon of season 6, were things that made this episode so cringeworthy to me... I still give it four stars, but only because it was interesting and very ironic, to see Buffy in the Watcher's role...
