The characters on the show are always referring to the ascension as an averted apocalypse, but I don't think it was portrayed as such in season 3. They made it pretty clear that the world would be around after the ascension, since the mayor and Faith made all those future plans. And even if they were talkin about more of a dystopian apocalypse, the show had made it clear that he would only be destroying Sunnydale. Anya even talks about witnessing another ascension, which led to a town being destroyed, but not to the world ending. So, am I missing something?
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