Three dollars and some change

First, and I know I've said this before, you've made Dawn likeable. Not because she's 5 but because you've given her a backstory in the way that BtVS didn't/couldn't.

Second, you've given us a different insight in the Anita/Nathaniel/Micah domestic arrangement. They may not be a triumvirate but they are a menage a trois in the very best of ways and you let them slide around and through the triangle with the ease that I believe they have. Mostly because of the men.

Third, Buffy's world was different even if the monsters existed, at least in name. You've acknowledged that, accepted it, and you use it where you can but you haven't changed Anita's monsters in the process.