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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3, Episode 21Graduation Day: Part 1 (18 May 1999)In an effort to distract Buffy from the Ascension, the mayor instructs Faith to poison Angel. Director:Joss Whedon |
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| Sarah Michelle Gellar | ... | ||
| Nicholas Brendon | ... | ||
| Alyson Hannigan | ... | ||
| Charisma Carpenter | ... | ||
| David Boreanaz | ... | ||
| Seth Green | ... | ||
| Anthony Head | ... |
Rupert Giles
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| Kristine Sutherland | ... | ||
| Harry Groener | ... | ||
| Alexis Denisof | ... | ||
| Mercedes McNab | ... | ||
| Ethan Erickson | ... | ||
| Emma Caulfield | ... | ||
| Eliza Dushku | ... | ||
| Armin Shimerman | ... | ||
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The mayor praises Faith as a great evil after killing geology professor Lester Worth as part of preparation for his ascension. Amidst the preparations for graduation, with a speech from the mayor, who wants to eat children once he's a demon, in a melancholic mood only Buffy misses, Anya, the former demon Anyanka, tells Xander and then the gang what the previous demonic ascension was like, Lohesh's 800 years ago in an Ural village, and how much worse the pure demon it produces is then 'eartly bastard-human' demons, but the mayor's preparations are very different, including eating spiders from the box. Anya invites Xander to join her running, in vain. While ingrate Buffy has a go at Xander who escorts her at Giles' request to retrieve the professor's notes, about a Hawaian vulcanologic expedition which found an 'unknown dinosaur' -probably actually an ascended demon's corps, so the mayor probably also becomes vulnerable again after his ascension- Faith shoots Angel with a poisonous ... Written by KGF Vissers
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Mayor Richard Wilkins: My god, what a feeling. The power of these creatures... It suffuses my being. I can feel the changes begin. My organs shifting, merging, making ready for the Ascension. Plus, these babies are high in fiber and what's the fun of becoming an immortal demon if you're not regular, am I right?
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At about 17:08 when Joyce walks through a door saying "Buffy I'm home..." the boom mic sweeps across the top of the shot. See more »Quotes
[after the Mayor eats the Gavrok spiders]Mayor Richard Wilkins: My god, what a feeling. The power of these creatures... It suffuses my being. I can feel the changes begin. My organs shifting, merging, making ready for the Ascension. Plus, these babies are high in fiber and what's the fun of becoming an immortal demon if you're not regular, am I right?
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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