Remember the Riley who said it turned him on that Buffy was stronger than he was? Who says "You're gonna teach me"? And at the end of the Replacement when she says would he have Buffy/Buffy or Slayer/Buffy, and he says he has Buffy -- all of Buffy? And even when he comes back, in that CRAP ep, and says The wheel goes up, wheel goes down, it doesn't change who you are -- the strongest person I've ever known and the first woman I ever loved?

sigh. I liked THAT Riley.

(I so, so, so hated the Physically Strong/Emotionally Closed-Off Woman storyline. I hate it every time I see it elsewhere, and it just did not belong on Buffy.)