Yeah InsaneMystic explained it well, I didn't mean Noble as in good. he was artistic, & he never "hated" his victims, he killed as a form of art, he had no grudges against his victims. that makes him just pure evil & noble at the same time. he's even more evil than the first, the first is evil for the sake of being evil, Angelus enjoys being evil.
Zalos disagrees: I'm not sure you realize that some of the *problems* you brought up are not problems for everyone. For example, Dawn is far from being the most annoying character for me.
well, when 90% of the fans agree about "Dawn", its kinda universal.
The only plot hole I can recall from S7 was the oracle known as Beljoxa's Eye. Its comments to Giles and Anya about the Slayer line was very confusing.
the uber vamp was portrayed as one heck of a vamp, Buffy struggled just to kill it, & the dream sequence was meant to be "oh my gosh", but there is no "oh my gosh" to it & by the season finale they're just like any other vamp, or even weaker.
the other things aren't plot hole but more like it seems illogical for this to happen (or not happen). like the first not taking forms of Tara & Angel, & the whole Sunnydale school issure was blown out of proportion, all the cases that occured during the three years span for Buffy started happening on each corner, it got to the point of being funny. last but not least, what was the goal of the scoobies during the span of the entire season? find a way to kill the first! but they didn't, with all the buildup, they just killed the uber vamps, that didn't stop the first one bit, where did he (it) go?
& I know Amber Benson said she doesn't wanna be the first, but that doesn't make it make more sense. I also know that Whedon said the uber vamps thing was just to show unity or something like that, but its still a plot hole.