I actually don't care much for The Gift for two reasons.
Being the 100th episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it should have been more...fulfilling. Nothing even happened until the very end of the episode.
Also being the potential end of the series, having the lead character die would have been an insult to the fans. In the first season finale, Buffy overcame the problem all the other Slayer's faced and were defeated by: death. Having Buffy die was like pretending that Prophecy Girls never happened. And they should have also had Faith, Angel, Cordelia, Oz, Joyce (In some form), and any other major character appear.