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3.21 Graduation Day (1) Joyce: "You know, Buffy, looking back on all that's happened, maybe I should have sent you to a different school." It was almost the ultimate chick fight. Buffy coming in dressed just like Faith, fighting in handcuffs like the old fights to the death with each contestant holding a handkerchief, crashing through windows, very cool. But can Faith really be gone, just like that? It seemed anti-climactic to me; is it possible she isn't dead? Dan and I both thought Faith would go out in a blaze of redemption, and instead, her last, suicidal act was to prevent Buffy from saving Angel. I was totally freaked by the Mayor just walking into the Inner Sanctum. Obviously Giles and the rest of the gang were, too. For a moment, I thought the Mayor was going to skewer someone for the fun of it. And the Mayor can be killed after he ascends? Now that makes sense; I was wondering how they were going to get around that one. Buffy joining Giles as an ex-employee of the Watchers Council was satisfying. In a sense, this was Buffy's graduation. The scene where Buffy and Giles stood together and defied the Council in the form of Wesley was my favorite scene in this episode. Could be interesting to see how that plays out in the next season, now that it looks like we're going to get one. Next week's preview was very interesting. Angel has to drain Buffy in order to live? Odd coincidence -- Dan gives blood occasionally, and the Red Cross called to hit him up just as the show was starting, and I thought... couldn't Angel take Buffy to the hospital for a transfusion or two after he drains her? Bits and pieces: -- Blood red graduation outfits? How appropriate. -- Faith murdered the defenseless Professor Worth in cold blood. Poor guy. -- Let's hope Willow losing her virginity doesn't come back and bite her like it did Buffy and Xander. Maybe the third time is the charm. -- Anya obviously didn't want Xander to die; she has feelings for him. I enjoy Anya, although I think a demon that hates men so much wouldn't change for someone like Xander. But the whole situation is so much fun that I don't mind. -- I liked Percy the jock, too, and how Willow's doppelganger got him to shape up. -- Pure demons and demi-demons? Giles really ought to have a demon database. It would save him a lot of index skimming. -- The Mayor is definitely "wicked gross." That thing about the fiber? The only thing more bizarre than the Mayor is those Old Navy commercials. -- Buffy packed Joyce's stuff and Joyce went. What a world of difference from the season two finale. Quotes: Xander: "I woke up the other day with this feeling in my gut. I just know there's no way I'm getting out of this school alive." Cordelia: "Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up." Xander: "I've been lucky too many times. My number's coming up. And I was short. One more rotation and I'm shipping state-side, you know what I mean?" Cordelia: "Seldom if ever." Willow: "Oh, I'm gonna miss her." Buffy: "Don't you hate her?" Willow: "Yes, with a fiery vengeance. She picked on me for ten years, the vacuous tramp. It's like a sickness, Buffy. I'm just missing everything. I miss P.E." Buffy: "I think it's contagious. The whole senior class has turned into the Sixties, or what I would have imagined the Sixties would have been like without the war and the hairy armpits." Xander: "Guess who our commencement speaker is?" Willow: "Siegfried?" Xander: "No." Willow: "Roy?" Xander: "No." Willow: "One of the tigers?" Anya: "Men like sports. I'm sure of it." Xander: "Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms." Willow: "Oh, this is so frustrating." Oz: "Nothing useful?" Willow: "No, it's great. If we want to make ferns invisible, or communicate with shrimp, I've got the goods right here." Oz: "Our lives are different than other peoples'." Willow: "Panic is a thing people can share in times of crisis." Wesley: "You can't turn your back on the Council." Buffy: "They're in England. I don't think they can tell which way my back is facing." Xander: "Boy, it's a good thing no one ever wanted to check any of these books out, huh?" Mayor: "We don't knock during dark rituals?" It's hard to rate the first part of such a big two-parter; there was so much in the air that I didn't know what to think. So I'm going to wait on this one, Billie |
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