Buffy The Vampire Slayer - S03E19|♡Uncut Reaction &Review ♡

I like that you noticed it was a picnic, at the end. The Mayor says he doesn’t see any picnics in Angel and Buffy’s future, i.e. Angel can’t go into the sunlight, and, at the end, they are sitting on a blanket at night in a graveyard. I kinda think this is a middle finger to the Mayor – “here’s our picnic” (but there ending expression shows they don’t convince themselves). If that was the point of it, I think the writers were right not to belabor it with a full picnic. Just a blanket, a gravestone and the night.

Faith was looking at her knife - not those spider things. That was her gift from the Mayor and she did not want to leave it behind.

I have conflicted opinions on this episode. On one hand there’s so much good stuff to love in it and on the other such irritating shit. I hate that Willow sits down to read those books rather than escape with 1 or 2 of them. The whole show down with the mayor would have not been necessary. This episode does show the mayors deep misogyny really well but still subtle. Notice during the confrontation, despite Buffy obviously being the leader for her side, the Mayor doesn’t ever talk directly to her. He talks to the men- to Giles and then to Angel. He talks about her and around her but never to her. Also with Faith, despite their outwardly appearing familial type relationship, he speaks to her and treats her as a child. This is nicely contrasted with the Giles and Buffy relationship where Giles shows genuine trust and support of Buffy’s decisions.