The Good;
The battle between Buffy and Faith is epic and a long time coming. Note that for some reason Buffy feels the need to put on her shiny red leather trousers before deciding to kick Faith's delectable butt?
The Bad;
Couldn't Buffy just let Angel have some of her blood in batches whilst chugging down iron pills by the handful? We know the Mayor's impervious to harm but why don't they just grab him and tie him up when he's in the library?
Best line;
Willow (guessing who the Graduation Speaker will be) "Seigfreid? Roy? One of the tigers?" (according to Lorne in Angel Seigreid is actually evil, Roy not so much) beating Xanders 'We're going to need a bigger boat' from Jaws. Xander also paraphrases Private Hudson from Aliens (who in turn is paraphrasing every Vietnam film you've ever seen).
Character death;
No but Angel on the brink. Faith's murder of the professor and her glib remark about it marks the nadir of her fall from grace. But you note that even then she wants her victim to turn around so she doesn't have to look into his eyes. When she chucks herself off the building it's her first suicide attempt but she'll make another later in Angel.
Shot;
Angel with Faith's bow and arrow
Tied up;
Buffy and Faith handcuffed together
Knocked out;
Angel and Faith in a coma
Women good/men bad;
Actually the relationship between Faith and the Mayor is lovely, especially when we see her in her dress. Faith also refers to her childhood in Boston again and you feel her pain. As for Xander he neatly sums up the male of the species;
"Yes, men like sports. Men watch the action movie. They eat of the beef and enjoy to look at the bosoms"
Buffy tells Wes 'I love it when you take charge, you man you' but one day she will. Will and Anya still have hostility.
Jeez!;
Faith killing the harmless old prof is beyond horrible. Plus the Mayor's eating the spiders (liquorice?). And Buffy sticks it to Faith with her great big knife
Kinky dinky;
What must the Professor and his neighbours think when Faith arrives on his doorstep dressed as she does? Probably how much does she charge per hour? I for one am glad we don't get to hear the end of Anya's shepherd story.
Calling Captain Subtext;
Again, violence and intimacy with Faith and Buffy who even penetrates Faith's body with her knife. Faith's goading Buffy about Angel's pain could once again be seen as sexual jealousy. Faith to Buffy "Give us a kiss". Faith also refers to Buffy as 'big sister' (does this make Joyce mom and Dawn her little sister?)
Guantanamo Bay;
Buffy is quite prepared to feed Faith to Angel to save him
Scoobies to the ER;
Buffy get's a hiding at Faith's hands and Angel nearly dies through poisoning
Where's Dawn?
Presumably Buffy get's little sis out of town alongside Joyce.
Questions and observations;
Where's this anti-vamp poison been all these years? It would have come in useful, don't you think? Stonkingly good in almost every respect with the promise of even better things to come in pt 2. Love Will's chopper bike. Nice that Willow and Harmony make up before Harmony gets all bumpy. Can anyone please explain to me why exactly the Mayor wants to be a giant snake? What is his plan for Sunnydale? Buffy breaks from the Watcher's Council and won't come back into the fold again until season 5. Just what are the odds that Anya, the only living survivor of an Ascension just happens to be at SDH? Is that the work of God/the PTB?
Faith's method of surviving her fall off the roof is reminiscent of Catwoman in Batman Returns. Love Giles and Wes fencing which will come in useful for both later.
Marks out of 10;
8/10
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Episode Summary
The gang receives some valuable information from their old enemy Anya, who has actually witnessed an Ascension. She reveals that the Mayor plans to transform himself into pure demon, something that has not been seen for thousands of years. When Angel is poisoned by Faith, Buffy faces Faith for the final time in order to get the only cure to the poison: the blood of a Slayer.moreless
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Trivia
ADD TRIVIA- Although Buffy knew that Angel needed to drain the blood of a slayer, she stabs Faith which would cause Faith to lose most of the blood that Angel needed to be cured. Edit
- In all other episodes there is a brick wall between the bank and Sunnydale Cinema, with Main Street making a right angle turn to the left. Yet as Faith stands on the ledge after Buffy stabbed her a truck drives straight down Main Street and the brick wall is now gone. Edit
- When Giles puts the sword into the Mayor, it look like he puts it right where his shirt buttons are (in the middle of the shirt). But in the next shot, the hole is a bit more to the left. Edit
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Notes
ADD NOTES- This is the second time Faith tries to kill Angel. The first time is earlier in season 3 in the episode "Revelations". Edit
- We learn that Willow rides a bike to school. Apparently she lives rather close to the school. Edit
- Joss said the part that Angel slips while entering in the professor's office was put as kind of a homage to David Boreanaz, who is pretty clumsy. Also, they wanted to do a funny entrance, not only the incredible-out-of-nowhere ones. Edit
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Quotes
ADD QUOTES- (Faith pulls out a knife.) Lester: Put that away! I'll scream! Faith: Who wouldn't? Edit
- Wesley: Buffy, they're very firm. We are talking about laws that have existed longer than civilization. Buffy: I'm talking about watching my lover die. Edit
- Buffy: Mom, graduation is a pointless ceremony where you sit around and listen to a bunch of boring speeches until someone hands you a little piece of paper that says you graduated, which you already know, and maroon does nothing for my complexion so don't argue, okay? Edit
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Teacher: (while playing hangman with his students) Heh, they always go for the 'E'.
Of course they do: "E" appears more in the English lexicon than any other letter. It has roughly a 12% share and is trailed by "T" (9%), "N" (8%), and "R" (7%). Edit - Buffy: Take a beat to love the synergy. Most likely, Buffy is referring to the term "beat" as it is used in screenplays and other scripts to refers to a pause in the dialog. Edit
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Xander: We're going to need a bigger boat.
Xander quotes a line from the movie Jaws when they saw how big the shark was. The picture of the demon that the Mayor will become is so large it takes up three pages of the book. Edit
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Teacher: (while playing hangman with his students) Heh, they always go for the 'E'.
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