Thanks for sharing your experiences about Bretagne!
I like Faith, but as with you she's not a favourite. And Bad Girls, the episode, doesn't really work for me. TBH, it plays much more as 'after-school special' than any other episode of the series: don't skip class, or else you'll end up killing someone in the alley! I think Consequences redeems it, by showing the huge range of reactions to the event, but even in Consequences I'm more interested in how everyone reacts to Faith than in Faith herself -- i.e. the way Buffy, Xander, Giles, Willow, Wesley, Angel all have their own interpretations of the event.
I loved loved loved SMG as Faith in Who Are You. And as a shallow note, I founud her much hotter there than I ever did either ED as Faith or SMG as Buffy. Lol! What can you do.
I find season 3 really interesting if you go the route 2maggie2 does (and which I subscribe to, but a little less strongly because I don't identify with Faith) and view the season as being about how the narrative of Faith as the shadow self gets constructed, and how Buffy ends up nearly killing her and leaving that part of her behind in order to preserve her idealized view of herself and of Angel. That story is really interesting, and interesting enough that I'm willing to grant the story some leeway. That reading is backed up by later seasons -- 6 & 7 -- as well as Five By Five/Who Are You and Sanctuary, which are written from Faith's POV more so than Buffy's.
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Date: 2012-02-22 03:46 pm (UTC)I like Faith, but as with you she's not a favourite. And Bad Girls, the episode, doesn't really work for me. TBH, it plays much more as 'after-school special' than any other episode of the series: don't skip class, or else you'll end up killing someone in the alley! I think Consequences redeems it, by showing the huge range of reactions to the event, but even in Consequences I'm more interested in how everyone reacts to Faith than in Faith herself -- i.e. the way Buffy, Xander, Giles, Willow, Wesley, Angel all have their own interpretations of the event.
I loved loved loved SMG as Faith in Who Are You. And as a shallow note, I founud her much hotter there than I ever did either ED as Faith or SMG as Buffy. Lol! What can you do.
I find season 3 really interesting if you go the route 2maggie2 does (and which I subscribe to, but a little less strongly because I don't identify with Faith) and view the season as being about how the narrative of Faith as the shadow self gets constructed, and how Buffy ends up nearly killing her and leaving that part of her behind in order to preserve her idealized view of herself and of Angel. That story is really interesting, and interesting enough that I'm willing to grant the story some leeway. That reading is backed up by later seasons -- 6 & 7 -- as well as Five By Five/Who Are You and Sanctuary, which are written from Faith's POV more so than Buffy's.