Buffy Season 8 - Recap

For those who are solely interested in Angel Season 6, I will eventually recap that too but we need to know Buffy's journey first. To even begin Whedon’s Season 8 Buffy recap we need to start at Whedon’s first canon comic book within the Buffyverse which is weirdly enough the ending, where Buffy and Angel’s fight will take them, and seemingly Buffy’s final resting place.
Fray is a comic series which began during Season 6 of Buffy and ended a few months after the final episode of Buffy aired. Fray is a Slayer in a distant dystopian future, we are told that she is the first to have been called in two hundred years and that the Slayer cycle is to begin anew. While it is important to ask why did the Slayer cycle end in the first place, it also puts into doubt the actions taken by Buffy in the final season and how great they were in the grand scheme of the Slayer mythology. Did Buffy’s “every one a slayer” spell have a detrimental effect on the Slayer lineage and in some way cause this dystopian future?
It’s safe to say if you loved the ending to Buffy in its television form, both the message of unity and Buffy’s final smile of peace, you should not continue to read either these recaps or Season 8 because in typical Whedon style we are heading somewhere bleak, full of bad decisions, death and eventually Fray’s future.
Right, have the optimists left? Because here’s the next bombshell; Fray is told of the final Slayer that was called, the mysterious Slayer fought an apocalyptic army of demons and when it was done, all magicks, and demons were banished from this earth. The final shot of this sequence shows that the Slayer was also taken through some portal with the other demons, on the assumption that this is Buffy, she is banished from earth and forced to live in another dimension with the demons. Not in the least bit similar to the final scene in Season 7 which portrayed an image of hope and happiness in store for Buffy. However it is important to note that this story of the final Slayer is told by an unreliable source and so this fate of Buffy is not set in stone, we’ve also seen other inevitable prophecies not come true the way we thought (Buffy’s death in Prophecy Girl being the prime example).
This is Whedon’s least conventionally linear story to date, we’ve seen flashbacks (Buffy, Angel) flash forwards (Dollhouse) and now we literally jump from Season 7 to the end, then to Season 8 then we move back and forward until we have all the information that will perhaps lead us to Fray’s dystopian future. You game?