I think the best season 7 ep was 'Conversations With Dead People', which he co-wrote. Goddard also co-wrote 'Lies My Parents Told Me', which i'd put among the top 5. 'Selfless' and 'Dirty Girls' are also pretty great but i suspect you don't mean either of them.

As for the hate for 'Selfless', Buffy has long used the 'flashbacks to build characterisation' technique stretching back to season 2, but there isn't a more perfect example of it in the whole show than 'Selfless'.

What? Buffy had a good episode in Season 7? I will have to re-watch them.

Seriously though, I don't get why we have been this long without a series from Joss Whedon on TV. It is by far his best medium. Come on joss, get cranking out something from the BuffyVerse, you know you can make something good and make a fortune from it, what's stopping you?

I also think that Selfless was a great episode. The killing of Halfrek was besides the point. It's all about Anya, and whether she can be a demon again, or whether she can take responsibility for killing. The title says it all - great pun, because Anya has no self. She's always been defined by either the men around her, whether it's the Troll guy, D'Hoffryn, or Xander, or by her job description, either vengeance demon, girlfriend, or retail clerk. Plus who could not love the hilariously subtitled black and white grainy 'flashback,' the great 'lost song' from the 'Once More with Feeling' era that underscores Anya's search for identity by having her trying out married names, and the brutally honest argument between Xander and Buffy about when it's ok to kill someone you formerly cared about because they've gone evil. The whole episode was worth that scene, as it's the first time that Xander's lie to Buffy from the end of season 2 (not telling her to wait for Willow's spell) is exposed. Now that's story arcing - a great way to recall 5 year old events and make them resonate. I also loved 'Conversations,' so yeah, Drew definitely wrote the best season 7 episodes.