Which is the one where Wes talks to the hamburger? That was probably my favourite moment on any Whedon show, ever.
Anyway, I think the problem with Cordelia is that Joss knows a set number of arcs and personality types for women. She started off as The Bitch (which was a fantastic role, IMO) and once her character arc had surpassed that, he couldn't think of anywhere for her to go. So she got shoehorned into the Ascended/Mother/Saint, which is fairly universally uninteresting as a character trope and didn't fit anything we knew about her, and she somehow went from one of the best characters in the 'verse to someone whose final death didn't matter to me whatsoever.
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Anyway, I think the problem with Cordelia is that Joss knows a set number of arcs and personality types for women. She started off as The Bitch (which was a fantastic role, IMO) and once her character arc had surpassed that, he couldn't think of anywhere for her to go. So she got shoehorned into the Ascended/Mother/Saint, which is fairly universally uninteresting as a character trope and didn't fit anything we knew about her, and she somehow went from one of the best characters in the 'verse to someone whose final death didn't matter to me whatsoever.