Oh, there's no point. This way lies madness. To start down this road would involve asking how it is that a new Luxor-style pyramid tomb with a flimsy (wooden?) door managed to sit in a cemetary in or near Sunnydale without ever being noticed before. If you were the Slayer, or her Watcher, wouldn't you go on a tour of the area cataloging all tombs and crypts and gravesites? I think I would, probably in season one.

And if you managed to knock Caleb out, wouldn't you use your magical (and extremely modern-looking for an ancient artifact) scythe to, I don't know, decapitate him? Of course you would, undead boyfriend with quivering pouting lips or not!

Still, the odds are a little more even now. Caleb can be defeated, even immediately after a tryst with The First. I'm remembering the prophecies, about how Dawn will be alone ("When it's bad, Buffy won't choose you. She'll be against you."), about how someone will have to... Well, again, if you remember them, you've got to be piecing together things in your head and guessing what will happen next Tuesday. And if you don't, you've got a lot of reading to do!

(This post also appeared at W6 Daily.)