interesting. i'm not a buffy/spike shipper (though cerrtainly not an anti-shipper. my buffy otp is riley. i have long since given up arguing on this regard. :D) but i do find it interesting, and as someone else said in the comments here, echo really isn't alone. they tried to establish that earlier in the ep with paul saying she's the loneliest he's ever met, and the other commenter is right, echo isn't alone. she has friends, and, yes, paul died, and they could have built her as someone who feels permanently isolated due to her special state, but they didn't because they didn't get their shit together. i wouldn't necessarily look at her breakdown as a callback to spike/buffy, but i do think it could be a nice post-chosen fanon... thing. like, i get the fandom could take that and make it how they would have wanted buffy/spike to go, because i do recall the spuffy fandom was PISSED about the way buffy had little to no reaction about spike's death, and, hey, i want my fellow fangirls to be happy.


... epic comment without point is epic and pointless. :)