I didn't really get the Fredless inclusion either, it's not like it was the episode that introduced Fred, or even the best Fred episode (personally I'm partial to Supersymmetry if it comes to it), so it seemed quite random to pick that one out just because it had a lot of Fred in it!

And yeah I think they had an interesting season planned overall, but there were some really awful one-offs mixed up in there, and the characterisation was not at its strongest that year. I wasn't a fan of this when they did it on Smallvile with L&C either, but I hated how the other characters started telling Angel and Cordelia that they were in love and that they made sense together, it felt so forced