In keeping with Season 4's baffling pairing of stellar show-defining episodes and vanilla
lameness (this season sometimes feels like salmon on couscous paired with a grilled cheese
I burned on the stove) This Year's Girl kicks off what is essentially a 4 part Buffy
Angel crossover.
Yes this season does contain Hush and Something Blue but This Year's Girl and Who Are You
are probably still the pinnacle of the season for me, the peak harmony of it's humor,
heart, and meaning.
After a surprisingly long and protracted previously on, out of necessity of course, the episode
opens on a familiar scene in Buffy's bedroom as she and Faith make the bed together.
Their short exchange over the bed is actually laden with some things to talk about, as was
their dream talk at the end of Season 3.
I can't say anything yet due to spoilers but just bear in mind that Buffyverse dream
sequences are HEAVY on the foreshadowing.
"I'd like to stay it's just…"
- "Little sis coming, I know."
Faith and Buffy's moment of domestic tranquility is interrupted by a drop of blood on the sheets,
revealed to be Faith's perpetual gut wound that Buffy inflicted.
And we discover that Faith is alive but not well, lost inside her own festering nightmares.
The Scoobies are brainstorming responses to Adam.
Riley seems on the mend enough to leave the initiative compound.
Forrest attempts to intervene.
Don't even tell me you're heading to that girlfriend of yours.
You wouldn't understand
Why don't you explain it to me then?
You know...now that we've created the Forrest Subtext Bugle I'm finding it difficult to
turn it off inside my own head.
Faith is still busily at work cooking up some potent night terrors.
She and the Mayor are relaxing over a picnic.
A gardener snake approaches and the Mayor utters some words that might be Faith's
unconscious trying to share some truths with her:
Hey there little guy.
I don't know where you belong but it's not with us.
Buffy ruins Faith's Idyllic picnic moment.
Notice that in Faith's dreams, Buffy is the one wearing black symbolizing who Faith
believe the actual bad guy is.
Out hunting for Adam the gang discovers one of the more ghastly images from the series...short
of one event coming in 2 seasons.
I never realized before this rewatch that the demon corpse is actually still steaming.
A kind of impressive and icky visual.
But my imagination also went to the kid from the last episode.
Shadow Buffy tracks Faith to a cemetery.
Faith falls into a grave and Shadow Buffy leaps in after.
Faith arises victorious
and wakes in the hospital.
A woman explains to Faith that the Mayor died and in a cut I find delightfully cold blooded
we see Faith walking away wearing her clothes.
Faith wanders the town taking in the wreckage of Sunnydale high.
The crowds of what was supposed to be snake snacks just wandering about their day.
She finds her way to Giles place and not for the third time this Season we get an image
of someone looking earnestly in upon a life they cannot have.
Buffy receives a call letting her know that Faith is awake and gone.
The next day she and Willow are walking the quad and..
"If I were here I'd get out of town."
"You're not me."
Buffy makes some attempt to keep the peace that I find sort of moving.
Remember, she awoke in Becoming Part 2, after the Faith in her dreams helped her find the
way to stop the Master.
But Buffy also hasn't been tortured by psychically influenced night terrors for the past six
months.
They fight.
The police arrive.
"You took my life B. Payback's a bitch."
"Look who's talking."
Willow is in this scene just to dish out purse slaps and ZINGERS.
Xander and Giles are out patrolling and stumble on Spike.
Spike suckers them into explaining what's going on.
"Tell you what I'll do then.
Find this girl where ever she is.
Tell her exactly where you are and then watch as she kills you."
See...This scene really only exists for one reason.
Spike and to a major degree Xander and Giles have nothing to really do in this episode.
You watch a LOT of shows with throw-in scenes intending to remind you that oh right...Spike
is on the show.
But in the hands of these writer's it is one of the most memorable scenes in the episode.
In fact, I would even go so far as to say that this is one of the most memorable scenes
for me with Spike's character in the SERIES.
He steals it.
And that charisma of his is kind of a problem later on down the line but we'll get there.
#spikeproblem
Some Watcher nerds show up in town to track down Faith.
Faith is surprised in an alleyway by a demon that she impulse kills.
The demon has a package which contains a video tape and something interesting.
It's hard to put this scene into words but
HE MADE HER A TAPE.
He had ONE DAY from her coma to the ascension.
And he considered the possibility of his own failure and didn't want to leave HIS FAITH
to awaken alone and by herself.
I loved their mirror mirror relationship in Season 3 and the taste of it in Season 4 is
a little bitter sweet.
"Once I'm gone...your days are just plain numbered…"
But THAT'S the evil of their relationship isn't it?
His statement always occurred to me as sort of manipulative and a curse on Faith.
But considering his character, it's possible that that is the world as he sees it.
The Mayor was soulless, as he admitted in an episode of Season 3 to having sold his
for a favor.
Lacking that he isn't really capable of free will.
Of choice and change.
And so, of course he can't envision a scenario where Faith's actions won't eventually
mean her end if he isn't around to protect her.
In some ways then his pronouncement of doom for Faith's future is actually just another
expression of his fatherly love for her.
Corrupted though it may be.
"You're never alone.
You'll always have me."
Faith is now armed with some kind of suicide vest and she chooses Joyce as her target.
And for the 10th time this episode we get an absolutely WONDERFUL scene.
With Faith trying to intimidate her, somehow from her position of vulnerability on the
bed Kristine Sutherland still imbues Joyce with inspiring power and strength.
But in their duel of words Faith finds the way to stab at her:
Thaaaats one of my favorite stand up and cheer moments from the show.
And I love the way Joyce reacts as though she never for a second doubted Buffy.
Faith and Buffy fight.
Faith puts on the Mayor's trinket.
Faith appears to be losing the fight, taking several shots from Buffy.
Considering though that she's body swapping the two of them, it's pretty likely that
Faith was softening herself up so that once Buffy was in her body she could one punch
her.
A great little detail.
As always it's tough to provide thoughtful analysis of a single entry of a multi-part
story.
Especially the first one.
But it's kind of wonderful how Faith's insertion into this season fits well with
all of the themes that Season 4 has been toying around with.
Family.
Identity.
Belonging.
Not totally surprising given she's Buffy's former shadow self.
The mayor's proclamation that Faith doesn't have much time left without him was a soft
echo of Professor Walsh's sentiment that Buffy's main problem was the absence of
a male role model.
Riley is trying to figure out who he is without the Initiative.
Faith now needs to discover herself without the Mayor.
And in Riley's conversation with Buffy, listen for what should be a trigger word for
you after having watched this channel for nearly four years.
It's a choice.
R: You make it sound so simple.
As much as I enjoy this reinforcement of the show's philosophy the exchange also highlights
the problems with the season arc that I brought up in the previous video in that it is dissociated
from we care about.
Buffy has already been through this problem.
I don't want to watch wonderbread with an N'sync haircut figure it out again.
You make it sound so simple.
I don't even know what "my" way is.
Well it's time to find out.
Riley...you...COULD watch the first three seasons of this really amazing show.
I'm not sure what it is.
Name escapes me.
Something about Spuffy the Werewolf Killer?
It'll come to me.
Yeesh.
There's that creepy Riley needing a new mommy figure and making it his girlfriend vibe again.
The music throughout this episode is really evocative and elevates already splendid material.
There's an emotional quality to it that reveals some of the emotional undercurrents
that don't appear readily onscreen.
Listen to the haunted recurring strings theme by Christophe Beck that plays over and over
again as Faith comes to grips with what's happened
Almost as though Faith is the ghost waking up.
In Faith, Hope, and Trick Buffy complained to Joyce that Faith was Single White Femaling
her, in that Faith was helping herself to
"My watcher, my friends my, oh look.
Now she's helping herself to my fries."
But by the end of This Year's Girl, Buffy's anxiety has literally come to pass.
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