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Season 3, Ep 22 (Patreon)

Published:
2022-03-16 16:28:34
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2023-07-01 15:33:37
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omggg this is it, end of season 3 🥺

ALSO announcement re: angel the show will go up tomorrow so everyone knows what's going on with that! just have fun with the finale for today! 😃

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Buffy Season 3, Ep 22 - Graduation Day Part 2

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Comments

StephanieB

Just a fun technical note: Joss loves long tracking shots, sort of one of his signatures as a director. Minutes 14:02-16:59 (hospital with Buffy, Faith, Mayor, etc.) is just one long tracking shot, no cuts. One long take. A huge technical challenge for the actors, the crew and for Joss himself since he directed this episode. Beautiful, tense and masterful.

o

The "Cordelia Chase Ebola Box Offensive" was always one of my most favoritest parts of this episode, you freezing with that expression on your face. has elevated it to GOAT status for me.... hahaha, brilliant.

Sisnerdly

I was just sitting here wondering what to do for the next hour of my life and here you are with the finale! 🙌🥳🙌 Whew! That was close, I almost started working out. Crisis averted!

Tim Pierce

And so it begins. The point where we all want to tell you what the dream meant, but we can't grrrrrr lol

Quiver

Ugh, you're my favorite ❤️

Jessica Roth

No live-blog today; I'm only that crazy once. (Or twice. Or…but not today.)

Jessica Roth

Okay, I lied. (But I'm only going to respond to things Darcie says, and each will be a separate post, so no massive tomes.) "I don't even give a shit about the Mayor any more." And thus Darcie sums up my position that Wilkins is inadequate as a villain in just 11 words. Okay, so she's lying. But just being motivated to tell that particular "lie" speaks to a hidden truth, IMO. Faith is more interesting than the Mayor, Faith got to be the climax of part 1. The subvillain eclipsed the villain. That's a fail, Joss. I mean, people loved Spike and Drusilla. Absolutely LOVED them. But I doubt even their biggest fans would claim that Angel wasn't the motor that drove Season 2, that he held people's attention, that what happened to Buffy was 95%+ his doing. And if there's anyone who thinks the Anointed was more important than the Master, I'll go throw myself on a conveniently-placed broken table. (Okay, now I'm lying. But still.)

Sarah

Omg it's always so much fun watching these reactions, never fail to bring a smile to my face Fun fact (at least to me): I was barely 8 when this episode came out and I was absolutely positive that Angel was dead! I didn't actually keep up with anything that wasn't playing on the actual show but I did hear that Buffy was moving networks and there was rumors going around that it was getting canceled and so I thought that they had just decided to kill him and I wasn't actually paying attention when Xander mentioned he was alive so I didn't realize that he survived and so I thought that was like his ghost or whatever that Buffy was staring at. Idk, I guess it was like the smoke in front of him and stuff, I was like so sure he was dead until I heard about his show. Side note, I don't think that I'll ever get over the fact that those were definitely supposed to be the parents behind the graduates and every single one of them just peaced out as soon as the mayor turned and no one checked on their kids. Understandably so, I mean it's a giant snake, but you would think that one of them would at the very least look over at their children just to see if they're following.

madfem

why does my long ass comment disappear after i post it?

Shaun Houghton

So the Darcie version: Fire-Good, Tree-Burns.

madfem

Remember I commented after 3x02 that Willow telling Buffy that she also had scary things going on in her life while Buffy was in LA after killing Angel, that it was very significant cuz it shows us (via showing Buffy cuz Buffy is US) that people are not an extra in your life's movie. An idea that was further explored in 3x18, Earshot. And eventually it's one of the main themes of the season; the idea of community, of taking others into account, learning how to work with others, coming together against one big enemy (the mayor ascending). Similarly, on Buffy's individual level, integrating Faith, her shadow self, into her psyche, is also drawing from the same idea. The solution was not to kill Faith (=to become Faith; cuz as Faith told Buffy "kill me, you become me") but simply, as demonstrated in the dream sequence in tis ep, for Buffy to accept her darker instincts, represented by Faith, in order to grow ( = to accept other people's pov's or simply their presence.) With Faith, Buffy also had to learn to share, to understand other people's (less fortunate people) circumstances; in essence, she learned empathy. Which comes back to theme of community. Basically, a very anti-individualistic take the show offers here (and not only here). (Also note how the idea from 3x09 The wish, that Buffy can't survive without her friends, is another way of celebrating this idea of community.) So in s2, Buffy had to learn to trust herself (-No weapon, no friends, no hope... Take all that away, and what's left? -Me.) and in s3, to trust others. And so she continues her path into adulthood.

Lostmyshoe22

I always look forward to your reactions. You make me smile even after a really crappy day 😊.

Erin

I first watched Buffy when I was 7 and I have rewatched several times, but this finale always makes me so giddy! As a little 8 year old I thought it was the greatest thing I had ever seen and it still holds! Your reaction sums it up perfectly. I watched maybe one or two of your Buffy videos on YouTube and immediately came to Patreon, I definitely look forward to your reactions every week! I had a tough work load ahead of me for this week but that was all on the back of my mind knowing that there'd be a Tuesday and Wednesday video this week. Here's to season 3 😊🥂

Silence_giraffe

Darcie: Snakes eat spiders! It makes sense! Me who’s watched this show 10 times and never made that connection: Oh shit, she’s right. Also Darcie: He’s a politician, that’s why he’s a snake! Me: OH SHIT, SHE’S RIGHT!

ghostofdurruti

Well, a giant serpent is kind of like a dragon! :D But yes I believe the politician/snake thing is exactly what they were going for haha. I love this finale! I don't love it quite as much as "Becoming" (I don't feel like it has the same emotional punch), but it caps off the high school years in a really satisfying way. If "Becoming" emphasized how lonely the role of the Slayer is, how in the end all she has is herself, this finale serves to contrast that: Buffy goes off to fight Faith alone and although she "wins" the fight itself, she doesn't succeed in her mission. She fails to bring Faith back to Angel, and goes into the final battle weakened as a result. It's only with the help of her friends and, indeed, of the entire student body coming together to fight off the Mayor and his vampire minions that she's able to succeed. (A bit of a side note, but I do feel like this was set up well, because there have been hints of people becoming more aware of the existence of the supernatural throughout the season. The most obvious part of the setup was, of course, the class protector award scene in "The Prom", but even as far back as "Anne" we had Larry commenting on how many mysterious deaths Sunnydale has. "Gingerbread", of all episodes, contributes quite a bit to this setup as well, featuring both Joyce's speech at the vigil and a scene in which a bully harassing Michael the warlock immediately backs off when Buffy arrives. That said, I do think that there are episodes that *should* have been used as an opportunity to set this up that weren't--Earshot being a major one. I hold that more against those episodes than this one, though.) All in all, this is a much more hopeful ending than "Becoming". There are sad elements, of course: Angel leaving, Buffy putting Faith in a coma (and regretting it instantly, judging by the look on her face at the end of part 1 and her returning the kiss Faith gave her in "Enemies"), the loss of the school and of a number of fairly major side characters. But while "Becoming" would not IMO have made a very satisfying series finale had the show ended after Season 2, I think "Graduation Day" would have had the show ended after Season 3. I see the show as a whole as being divided into three major arcs, and this marks the end of the first one. (Speaking of sad elements, RIP Larry--death by snake tail whip. And Harmony--bitten by a vampire. And Snyder--eaten, like Principal Bob before him. Interestingly, the number of named characters that died in the battle against the mayor is the same as the number of people Anya says survived the ascension she witnessed: three.)

Danie1Esq .

Ok, so I don’t see that anyone has asked the important question: Why was the cake blurred??? Was it a dirty cake? Lol