Yeah, I find I've enjoyed the Buffy arcs much more after re-reading them as "episodes". I'm super excited about Fray, but am disappointed that they wrote out Renee AND Satsu so quickly--wtf? I was just getting to know them... and it feels like right now Buffy has gone from being an ensemble cast of less than ten to a shitload of slayers, lots of incidental characters, and it's hard to "get to know" the newbies. I'm sat from a narrative/character standpoint that they've sacrificed the few interested characters we've met in season 8.