I can take pain and I'm a character slaughterer, so I understand and applaud where its needed. I adore Torchwood: Children of Earth. I just need some up and payoff too and Joss stopped giving that necessary balance years ago, and lost me when he did.

The Buffyverse in my head went alt at Grave, so I got to keep Giles, Anya, Wes and Dawn along with Spike. So I suspect there will be more Lions snippets in their future. It probably helps that Buffy (and Xander) are both dead in that 'verse as she's been dead to me since Chosen.

Though in the Lionsverse the boys and girls are trying to get over a terrible World Cup and taking six small children to South Africa, so they're a bit knackered at the moment.