Didja notice in that "Chosen" scene one by one they all split off until Buffy is alone and forlorn? They don't even fight together. It was anything but a reconciliation, it was a total splintering.
It's a Pyrrhic victory.
If you can call it a victory.
And as to Buffy/Giles...I don't see Giles as a "father figure" I see him as a FATHER, biology be damned.
Another reason to hate the show's last seasons, the total disintegration of that relationship.
And yet B/G makes more sense than Spuffy.
"But sweet Patrick are you endorsing incest as a more upright and moral than St. Suckencheeks???"
You're damn straight.