I had a similar reaction - manly because it was Buffy. It felt rather OOC to me. If it had been, say, Faith I wouldn't have blinked an eye but being it was Buffy it felt ... off somehow.

I can't quite put my finger on it ... I felt like it was manipulated, I guess. I'm really mixed on the comics - the whole Willow can fly thing also had me doing a WTF reaction. (Though the Superman dialogue in this one was kind of cute.)