I remember reading a post somewhere that listed all the reasons why the poster thought the Scoobies reacted to Anya so differently than Spike. I don't remember who that was. A lot of the reasons came down to the fact that the Scoobies had been the victims of Spike's evil, and they had no memories of being the victim's of Anya. I'm sure that would go double for Faith, given Faith's tendency to lash out the most cruelly at the people who reached out to her. So even though Anya is undoubtedly worse than Faith, the Scoobies don't feel it, so they treat her differently.

I've always felt the of all the characters in Buffyverse, Faith's darkness was dealt with most honestly. The lack of follow-up to her assault of Xander is a glaring exception.

Word on Xander and Buffy's vampiric partners. I have on more than one watch literally sworn at the screen during his first scene with Buffy in Seeing Red. One thing I love about that scene is how completely ugly Xander is capable of being, and yet still maintain my sympathy and affection.

I think he learned his lesson in Selfless, even though it wasn't made explicit.

I didn't know that about Darla/Angel and the network. That raises an interesting question: To what extent does the fantasy world of Buffy make it acceptable to portray and condone behavior that would be horrible in the real world?

I have a lot of issues with the way Seeing Red was filmed. It was...strange.