I have a bad feeling that Joss is destroying all the other characters, just to idolise Willow, and exonerate her from any bad she did in Season Six. Willow is the God of the Buffyverse, and if Buffy is sacrificed to the alter of her Eminence, so be it!

I don't feel Willow-idolizing here. Willow in the embrace of the snake-woman was creepy and dark.
But A agree about the character destruction; I feel disoriented.