The Great Buffy Finale Debate: A Discussion of the Series' Final Season

Then we have the graduation date battle happen and I love the moment where they get all the school and they take the robes off and they have cross and the stakes and crossbows, they have fire, they all team together up to take this demon down first. It's amazing, I love that finale. I think it's a great one, but I wouldn't say it's one of my favorite all-time finales. It doesn't pack a punch as much as Season 2 when Buffy kills Angel - that one packs an insane punch. Graduation Day is just a big bad, we defeat him, yay, all is good. That's a great finale, but it's not one of my favorites and it's not an emotional wreck or gut punch like their other seasons. It's like I'm looking at you, Season 2 and 5 and 6 - even though this one was just a nice kind of wrap-up to high school like they blew up their school, they survived the battle that was high school. I adored it, I thought it was great also. At the end of this season, we see is relief.

If you haven't already surmised by now, that Angel is getting his own show - Angel has his own show. A question to you if you're watching is would you like to watch Buffy and Angel simultaneously? Meaning as an Angel begins Season 1 when Buffy's doing Season 4, so do you wanna watch Buffy Season 4 and Angel Season 1, and then Buffy Season 5, Angel Season 2? Would you like to watch them together? I personally am gonna do that because I've watched Buffy a lot but I don't think I've ever done a rewatch of Angel in fact, I don't think I've ever even finished Android - don't think I've ever watched the last season, the fifth season. So I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna watch Angel and not Angel, I will tell you is a much darker show. Kind of compare Angel to Buffy's all about kind of growing up and learning to embrace your Slayers and doing with the demons that are real, dealing with demons that you know are fictional but also kind of put them in together with demons and your real life whereas Angel is about character that's been alive for several years and have done a lot of bad things and is trying to atone for his actions like you're recovering from alcohol.

Let's just say that so I like Angel, I don't like it nearly as much as Buffy but there are crossover episodes especially in Season 4 and Season 5 of Buffy those two are where they cross over the most because they are on the same network after that it gets a little bit dicey. But if you really want the full experience of watching Buffy, I would also watch Angel, watch them I don't know if I'm gonna watch full on season for Buffy and then Season 1 of Angel might try to do one that makes any sense but I'm gonna do it if you guys want to do it too let me know.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone welcome to the season 3 discussion of Buffy the Vampire Slayer now if you do not know I am part of the slay along which is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer watch along where we watch a season of Buffy a month we talk about it on our twitter handle at slay along and we also do a live show at the end of the month I have some lovely co-host who are also doing this with me and I will link all of them down below as well as all the videos needs like our live shows my season 1 my season 2 discussion and things like that so today we're here to talk about season 3 so obviously spoilers if you have not watched season 3 of Buffy please don't watch me further I don't want to spoil you but it's gonna be a long one because I have a lot to say because this is my favorite season of Buffy um every time I rushed Buffy I always think is season 3 really my favorite and when I get around to season 3 I'm like yes I look back at it and it's my favorites the run through I odorous I love season 3 like I write down every single episode in every season as you can tell I have stars by my favorite and if you can see there's a lot of stars in season 3 there wasn't nearly as many in season 2 that season to this season 3 so the season 3 has some of my all-time favorite episodes in it it has chock full of amazing one-shot episodes it's full of amazing like series like um like serie plot ones if that makes any sense but anyway we're gonna talk about season 3 as always I don't have a real script for this video so it's gonna be all over the place I hope that's okay we're just here to talk and discuss season 3 so let's do this so first of all we begin season 3 with the opening of an which is Buffy has kind of run away and she's left Sunnydale moved to LA and she's on her own and she is alone and then she has to help a girl and then she get the spark to go back to Sunnydale so it's about her like coming back to Sunnydale after she has killed angel and how she's a much very different person receiving the finale I watch of Buffy I'm like how Buffy could come back from this from season 1 she died season 2 she had killed her her lover her boyfriend and now so um the first couple episodes are kind of just Buffy getting acylated back to Sunnydale with her characters and then but I third episode Faith Hope and trickly me a new character named faith is a new Slayer so if you remember in season one we learned that every time you Slayer dies a new one is you know called upon so when Buffy died in season one we got Kendra and then Kendra passed away in season two and now we have faith as the new Slayer faith is much different than buffy and Kendra she beats she marches to the beat of ruined drum let's just say that she's kind of the Dark elusive Slayer that does whatever she wants it doesn't really feel a lot of consequences for her actions that just wants to have a good time and really enjoy slaying like Buffy you learned doesn't really like slang but she does it because that's what she's called to do faith really generally loves the kill and loves the thrill of hunting and you know of patrolling and things like that so honestly when I think about season 3 and I always you know get a lot of my thoughts and things like that from passion the nerd season guides if you have not watched them I highly recommend them every time I finish an episode I go to watch his episode review and I learn a whole bunch of things that I never knew about Buffy and it opens up my mind so much like for the example of faith is kind of Buffy shadow self so Buffy you know is kind of the good Slayer does what she's told but in reality think Buffy's not but faith is kind of like her shadow self of like her dark evil self that if Buffy was really not didn't have her friends and didn't have a lot of tethers to this life she would be kind of like faith so I found that very interesting so we have the you know the introduction of faith which is very interesting and then if I see them fool we learned that angel is alive and he's come back from Hell and we don't know why exactly you never really figure out why he comes back from Hell he's just there and so it that's a very different thing for Buffy because she was dating a new person she was trying to get her life back on track and then angels here so we have that we also just have so many amazing we also have so many amazing one-shot episodes in the first half of season 3 Homecoming one of my all-time favorites or Buffy and Cordelia kind of battle it out we also have bang candy man candy is one of my top 10 episodes hands down of the entire series now there are some people that don't like being candy I love it I think it's an amazing one shot up so it is hilarious it is an episode that makes me laugh I mean principal Snyder as a teenager Giles is Ripper and him and Joyce together it is just full of classic quotes and issues Dan'l arias episode through and through I love Bank and a we also have really intense episodes such as lovers walk lovers walk that's what I favorites because it's one that it's one that punches you in the gut because we have the introduction of spike again and how Buffy and Angel are fighting their feelings like we're not really love spikes like you're always gonna be in love just to let you know we also have the willow Xander betrayal which I was not on board with anybody else like the first beginning of Buffy I wanted Willona theater dude together because I thought it was cute and then by season three I was like they found their respected other house and I was like why would you do this to us writers but they did it anyway but I love don't lovers walk because it was a very intense and a very driven episode full of like a lot of emotions and things like that we also have the wish right after that which again is one of my top 10 favorite episodes of all times that is an alternate reality episodes and I love those for some reason that is basically when corny wishes Buffy never came to Sunnydale what it would be like we have vampire willow and Xander and it's just a really creepy but good time I loved it I loved the wish we also get introduced to Anya which if you're gonna Buffy stick around Anya's gonna be around for a while and she were gonna love her let me just tell you that we also have some episodes that I don't love that I still really enjoy such as immense that's a very gut wrenching one to gingerbreads not one of my favorite and helpless I can't help but not love because I just OH Strauss Buffy it's just a betrayal oh my gosh we almost have the Zeppo which i think is a classic underrated episode now I wouldn't say it's my one of my top 10 favorites but it's such a unique episode where it's and ER perspective and I just love how Xander is like having his own storyline but we have this huge like apocalypse happening in the background it's kind of like the storyline if somebody didn't know what was going on with the apocalypse it's just it's just kind of satire II and kind of an episode with in an episode so get in half a season which starts with bad girls and that's when kind of Buffy decides to get a little bit bad back to embrace their interface much and they kind of go out swing and dance do up bad things and rise and shine then accidentally faith kills a human instead of a vampire and then we have consequences which is the episode right after that and it's about faith you know learning that she doesn't really care that she's code a human she you know whatever she finds a Slayer as you know they're better than everybody else they keep everybody safe what's one life instead of the thousands they saved and Buffy doesn't view it that way why is one life you know she says that one life is really important just as much as the thousand lies we say it's this is a job this is what we're called to do faith does not see it as that you know she thinks she's better than everybody else so it's about faith kind of really faith has always been a very interesting character for me in the fact of I always have a smile I always have had a soft spot for her because she is a the wouldn't say she is an evil character but she has kind of evil tendencies but she's looking for love you see constantly beginning this even season that you know a lot of things have fallen apart her faith her watcher has died right in front of her her family has kind of just dawned she doesn't have anybody that she can rely on or be around or a family much as Buffy heads Buffy has Joss even though she's little but not there sometimes Buffy and Giles is a father figure she has Xander and Willow and oz that her family and her friends that she can rely on and that she loves so she has tethers to this world to keep her grounded faith does not have any of that she feels alone so in retrospect why wouldn't she feel those things of like not caring about somebody's death or not you know having repercussions or feeling consequences from that because she doesn't have the same things Buffy has you often see faith coveting over what Buffy has even angel with willow her friends us like a really good watcher that she loves faith wants those things and when phase realizes that she can't have those things she kind just doesn't care anymore and goes evil so faith I would say is a antihero if you will like faith will do the right thing I think but she has to go through a lot of Darkness to get to it and you'll even see that in future episodes on different shows even you get to see more on faith and learn her dynamic of why she's like that and her struggle and her journey to become better and to become you know more self-aware and more good so faith is an interesting character that I always like to watch because she like a lot of times I want to punch her and be like no and a lot of times I care for her and want her to succeed and want her to learn and to realize that she has people that she can rely on but she just keeps making mistakes that pushes them away so I could talk a whole frickin video about faith parent but anyway so after that we have another great episode is doppelganger and Oh such a good episode I love it I mean vampire willow real willow like so much for shadowing is this best I love it so much um we also have enemies and earshot and things like that ear shots a great episode we also know that faith has kind of went over to the dark side to the big bag and I forgot to say about everything bad this season is the mayor mayor Wilkins and throughout the first two seasons of this show you hear about the mayor you don't ever get to meet him but it everyone's always like wait so the mayor hears about this because the mayor turns out is straight-up evil the mayor has been living for over a hundred years the mayor is finally turning into a demon this year and ascending so faith decides to go work for him and yes mayor is like pure evil with the sight of wholesome like he's like here's a glass of milk have some cookies wash your hands after then go kill this man that's the kind of big bad the mayor is you just take good care of it you be careful put somebody's eye out with that thing until I tell you to I loved the mayor and face relationship because faith found a father figure in the mayor it's not the right one okay but she found somebody that she could rely on and you could really see that dynamic between them too it was very interesting very dynamic I really enjoyed it before I get into the Oh oh I've got to talk about the prom the prom I think I crying that up so more than any other episode oh I don't know that's hard to say but when Buffy and Angel break up I sob and then when Buffy gets that award for class protector I saw so much like Buffy doesn't give out sugary sweet moments but when it does I eat them up like candy I never let them go I adored that frickin that I adore that seem so insanely much like it was just a culmination of Buffy always wanting to be recognized by her peers for all the work she's done and just for people to notice she's there and lo and behold they do notice she's there and they know that she has been protecting them this entire time frickin so adorable that whenever there was a problem or something creepy happened you seem to show up and stop it most of the people here have been saved by you or helped by you at one time or another we're proud to say that the class of 99 has the lowest mortality rate of any graduating class in Sunnydale history and we know at least part of that is because of you so the senior class offers its thanks and gives you this Buffy Summers class protector whap horses comes on with buffing angel freaking lose it prom amazing one of my favorite it's a lot of time then we have the finale so before I get into the finale I want to talk about some things I want to talk about our relationships we have so I've already kind of touched on the Buffy and faith relationship of how they're kind of like shadow cells if you will they both kind of want what each other doesn't have they both want what they don't have um we also have Buffy and Angel Buffy and Angel you know they get back together the season and we see it's very kind of tumultuous like you want them to be together but as the season goes on you know that there's not going to be a future for them really anniversary safe as houses what kind of future could there be but you know she is gonna go to college and angels gonna stay the same age forever and it's just hard and so they break up and it's sad but you understand it and it's just a time and time again I'm a Buffy nature shipper I will always I like to think of them in the back of my mind always together forever and ever that's just how I am but you know I understood why they broke up and I liked how it kind of ended amicably as much as it can be with you know a lot of kind of feeling still but it wasn't like something bad um another relationship freaking Xander Cordelia Susannah Xander Cordelia got together in season two and was kind of a hate to love relationship they got together I was really good and then Xander and Willow decided to get together and just blew everything up because little bit swollen Oz were together so they cheated on both of their partners with each other and I hated that so freaking much willow not got back together thank goodness because they are just an amazing couple oz forever like Oz just seals the show and every scene he's in with the one liners with cuz it doesn't say much but uh says everything's and so I mean the relationships in this season I did love willow and oz they were one of my favorite couples of all time well I'm Xander and Cordelia and ended very horribly I like that they got some sort of resolution by the end because the Ender again is a character that has has ups and downs for me for these early seasons like I get a lot of comments from you guys saying you don't ones and ER and I still get it but the end of season three I really feel like Xander is coming full circle and he's becoming a lot better I mean especially after he bought the dress recorded to kind of apologize and you see him growing up more and more and I appreciate that Xander will get better he's still always gonna be Xander kind of kind of a brat kind of juvenile that's just who's and ER is honestly um but I adore him he's got some great lines honestly willow is another character in love I love the Buffy below friendship honestly it's just so adorable how we'll get so jealous of her faith and Willow does make mistakes such as she did with Xander willow is just an amazing I loved her coming into her with the powers and learning Lauren being more self-assured and being more herself I adored that Buffy as well Buffy is my favorite character I don't say a lot with um books or shows or movies like Harry Potter is not my favorite character and Harry Potter but Buffy is my favorite character because I just think you see such a progression with her every single season but this season you see her really grow up and learn about love and kind of heartbreak and she also learns that she has to go to college and she's accepting her phase a Slayer forever and what to do I just I love Buffy I think she's got such a great dynamic I also love Giles I mean just every character in the show I have a soft spot for honestly like every single one of them I adore it so let's talk about the finale to wrap this up it's super long so graduation day is here the mayor's gonna ascend we have a plan together angel get shot by faith and he's gonna die from a poison unless he drinks a Slayers blood Buffy goes to kill face she stabs her doesn't quite kill her so still won't help you why though should have been that be Buffy officer self up to you know get bitten by angel which is very it's very interesting seem I think it represents something else if you get when I'm saying here like in sexual and I think I read somewhere it's like somebody said that's his thinnest metaphor ever uh huh I think I might have been patched from there too I promise I don't mean to copy them all thinks he says I just love what he says but and then we have the graduation date battle happen and I love the moment where they get all the school and they take the robes off and they have cross and the stakes and crossbows they have fire they all team together up to take this demon down first away it is amazing I love that finale I think it's a great one I wouldn't say it's one of my favorite all-time finales it doesn't pack a punch as much as season the twos when buffy kills angel that one packs an insane punch graduation day it's just a big bad we defeat him yay all is good that's a great finale but it's not one of my favorites and not it's not an emotional wreck or gut punch as their other season it's like I'm looking at you season two and five and six even um but though this one was just a nice kind of wrap to high school like they blew up their school they survived the battle that was high school I adored it I thought it was great also at the end of this season we see is relief and if you haven't already surmised by now that angel is getting his own show Angel has his own show a question to you if you're watching is would you like to watch Buffy and Angel simultaneously meaning as an angel begin season 1 when Buffy's doing season 4 so do you wanna watch Buffy Season 4 and Angel season 1 and then Buffy Season 5 Angel season 2 would you like to watch them together I personally am gonna do that because I've watched Buffy a lot but I don't think I've ever done a rewatch of Angel in fact I don't think I've ever even finished Android I don't think I've ever watched the last season the fifth season so I'm gonna do it I'm gonna watch Angel and not Angel I will tell you is a much darker show I would kind of compare Angel to Buffy's all about kind of growing up and learning to embrace you know your Slayers and doing with the demons that are real dealing with demons that you know are fictional but also kind of put it in together with demons and your real life whereas Angel is about character that's been alive for several years and have done a lot of bad things and is trying to atone for his actions like you're recovering like alcoholic I've heard it compared to is kind of like that show so it's a much darker show it's all about angel atoning for his sins pretty much let's just say that so I like Angel I don't like it nearly as much as Buffy but there are crossover episodes especially in season 4 and season 5 of Buffy those two are where they cross over the most because they are on the same network after that it gets a little bit dicey but I say if you really want the full experience of watching Buffy I would also watch Angel watch them I don't know if I'm gonna watch full on season for Buffy and then season 1 of Angel I might try to do one one that makes any sense but I'm gonna do it if you guys want to do it too let me know I'd love to hear but either way season three if I can give a rating a full 5 out of 5 I loved every single I mean there was no episode other than dead man's party which was my least favorite episode by the way then I didn't absolutely like really enjoy my favorite episodes hands down were bang candy lovers walk the witch doppelganger and earshot and the prom and graduation day those are my favorites favorites so a lot of favorites I also really enjoyed the Zeppo I also really liked bad girls and face up and trick I also really enjoyed choices honestly too so season 3 I think is the Golden Age of Buffy Season 3 is where it hits its stride it does amazingly well and we're gonna enter season 4 and season 4 I don't know if it's my least favorite season I will say it has some my least favorite episodes of all time so there's that that's gonna be fun but either way sees importance also got a couple of really good episodes that are some of my favorites of all time as well so she did worth loom mix back I'm kind of not looking forward to it because I don't love the season that much but as always I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions about season 3 what you enjoyed about it what you didn't enjoy about it again I will link all the links for slay along down below I will also link passion of the nerd season 3 die I highly recommend you watch them they are amazing believe you me I love them so much so let me wrap this up because I am talking forever too long about this I could talk about Buffy forever and ever apparently he better love do your thoughts thank you so much for watching byehello everyone welcome to the season 3 discussion of Buffy the Vampire Slayer now if you do not know I am part of the slay along which is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer watch along where we watch a season of Buffy a month we talk about it on our twitter handle at slay along and we also do a live show at the end of the month I have some lovely co-host who are also doing this with me and I will link all of them down below as well as all the videos needs like our live shows my season 1 my season 2 discussion and things like that so today we're here to talk about season 3 so obviously spoilers if you have not watched season 3 of Buffy please don't watch me further I don't want to spoil you but it's gonna be a long one because I have a lot to say because this is my favorite season of Buffy um every time I rushed Buffy I always think is season 3 really my favorite and when I get around to season 3 I'm like yes I look back at it and it's my favorites the run through I odorous I love season 3 like I write down every single episode in every season as you can tell I have stars by my favorite and if you can see there's a lot of stars in season 3 there wasn't nearly as many in season 2 that season to this season 3 so the season 3 has some of my all-time favorite episodes in it it has chock full of amazing one-shot episodes it's full of amazing like series like um like serie plot ones if that makes any sense but anyway we're gonna talk about season 3 as always I don't have a real script for this video so it's gonna be all over the place I hope that's okay we're just here to talk and discuss season 3 so let's do this so first of all we begin season 3 with the opening of an which is Buffy has kind of run away and she's left Sunnydale moved to LA and she's on her own and she is alone and then she has to help a girl and then she get the spark to go back to Sunnydale so it's about her like coming back to Sunnydale after she has killed angel and how she's a much very different person receiving the finale I watch of Buffy I'm like how Buffy could come back from this from season 1 she died season 2 she had killed her her lover her boyfriend and now so um the first couple episodes are kind of just Buffy getting acylated back to Sunnydale with her characters and then but I third episode Faith Hope and trickly me a new character named faith is a new Slayer so if you remember in season one we learned that every time you Slayer dies a new one is you know called upon so when Buffy died in season one we got Kendra and then Kendra passed away in season two and now we have faith as the new Slayer faith is much different than buffy and Kendra she beats she marches to the beat of ruined drum let's just say that she's kind of the Dark elusive Slayer that does whatever she wants it doesn't really feel a lot of consequences for her actions that just wants to have a good time and really enjoy slaying like Buffy you learned doesn't really like slang but she does it because that's what she's called to do faith really generally loves the kill and loves the thrill of hunting and you know of patrolling and things like that so honestly when I think about season 3 and I always you know get a lot of my thoughts and things like that from passion the nerd season guides if you have not watched them I highly recommend them every time I finish an episode I go to watch his episode review and I learn a whole bunch of things that I never knew about Buffy and it opens up my mind so much like for the example of faith is kind of Buffy shadow self so Buffy you know is kind of the good Slayer does what she's told but in reality think Buffy's not but faith is kind of like her shadow self of like her dark evil self that if Buffy was really not didn't have her friends and didn't have a lot of tethers to this life she would be kind of like faith so I found that very interesting so we have the you know the introduction of faith which is very interesting and then if I see them fool we learned that angel is alive and he's come back from Hell and we don't know why exactly you never really figure out why he comes back from Hell he's just there and so it that's a very different thing for Buffy because she was dating a new person she was trying to get her life back on track and then angels here so we have that we also just have so many amazing we also have so many amazing one-shot episodes in the first half of season 3 Homecoming one of my all-time favorites or Buffy and Cordelia kind of battle it out we also have bang candy man candy is one of my top 10 episodes hands down of the entire series now there are some people that don't like being candy I love it I think it's an amazing one shot up so it is hilarious it is an episode that makes me laugh I mean principal Snyder as a teenager Giles is Ripper and him and Joyce together it is just full of classic quotes and issues Dan'l arias episode through and through I love Bank and a we also have really intense episodes such as lovers walk lovers walk that's what I favorites because it's one that it's one that punches you in the gut because we have the introduction of spike again and how Buffy and Angel are fighting their feelings like we're not really love spikes like you're always gonna be in love just to let you know we also have the willow Xander betrayal which I was not on board with anybody else like the first beginning of Buffy I wanted Willona theater dude together because I thought it was cute and then by season three I was like they found their respected other house and I was like why would you do this to us writers but they did it anyway but I love don't lovers walk because it was a very intense and a very driven episode full of like a lot of emotions and things like that we also have the wish right after that which again is one of my top 10 favorite episodes of all times that is an alternate reality episodes and I love those for some reason that is basically when corny wishes Buffy never came to Sunnydale what it would be like we have vampire willow and Xander and it's just a really creepy but good time I loved it I loved the wish we also get introduced to Anya which if you're gonna Buffy stick around Anya's gonna be around for a while and she were gonna love her let me just tell you that we also have some episodes that I don't love that I still really enjoy such as immense that's a very gut wrenching one to gingerbreads not one of my favorite and helpless I can't help but not love because I just OH Strauss Buffy it's just a betrayal oh my gosh we almost have the Zeppo which i think is a classic underrated episode now I wouldn't say it's my one of my top 10 favorites but it's such a unique episode where it's and ER perspective and I just love how Xander is like having his own storyline but we have this huge like apocalypse happening in the background it's kind of like the storyline if somebody didn't know what was going on with the apocalypse it's just it's just kind of satire II and kind of an episode with in an episode so get in half a season which starts with bad girls and that's when kind of Buffy decides to get a little bit bad back to embrace their interface much and they kind of go out swing and dance do up bad things and rise and shine then accidentally faith kills a human instead of a vampire and then we have consequences which is the episode right after that and it's about faith you know learning that she doesn't really care that she's code a human she you know whatever she finds a Slayer as you know they're better than everybody else they keep everybody safe what's one life instead of the thousands they saved and Buffy doesn't view it that way why is one life you know she says that one life is really important just as much as the thousand lies we say it's this is a job this is what we're called to do faith does not see it as that you know she thinks she's better than everybody else so it's about faith kind of really faith has always been a very interesting character for me in the fact of I always have a smile I always have had a soft spot for her because she is a the wouldn't say she is an evil character but she has kind of evil tendencies but she's looking for love you see constantly beginning this even season that you know a lot of things have fallen apart her faith her watcher has died right in front of her her family has kind of just dawned she doesn't have anybody that she can rely on or be around or a family much as Buffy heads Buffy has Joss even though she's little but not there sometimes Buffy and Giles is a father figure she has Xander and Willow and oz that her family and her friends that she can rely on and that she loves so she has tethers to this world to keep her grounded faith does not have any of that she feels alone so in retrospect why wouldn't she feel those things of like not caring about somebody's death or not you know having repercussions or feeling consequences from that because she doesn't have the same things Buffy has you often see faith coveting over what Buffy has even angel with willow her friends us like a really good watcher that she loves faith wants those things and when phase realizes that she can't have those things she kind just doesn't care anymore and goes evil so faith I would say is a antihero if you will like faith will do the right thing I think but she has to go through a lot of Darkness to get to it and you'll even see that in future episodes on different shows even you get to see more on faith and learn her dynamic of why she's like that and her struggle and her journey to become better and to become you know more self-aware and more good so faith is an interesting character that I always like to watch because she like a lot of times I want to punch her and be like no and a lot of times I care for her and want her to succeed and want her to learn and to realize that she has people that she can rely on but she just keeps making mistakes that pushes them away so I could talk a whole frickin video about faith parent but anyway so after that we have another great episode is doppelganger and Oh such a good episode I love it I mean vampire willow real willow like so much for shadowing is this best I love it so much um we also have enemies and earshot and things like that ear shots a great episode we also know that faith has kind of went over to the dark side to the big bag and I forgot to say about everything bad this season is the mayor mayor Wilkins and throughout the first two seasons of this show you hear about the mayor you don't ever get to meet him but it everyone's always like wait so the mayor hears about this because the mayor turns out is straight-up evil the mayor has been living for over a hundred years the mayor is finally turning into a demon this year and ascending so faith decides to go work for him and yes mayor is like pure evil with the sight of wholesome like he's like here's a glass of milk have some cookies wash your hands after then go kill this man that's the kind of big bad the mayor is you just take good care of it you be careful put somebody's eye out with that thing until I tell you to I loved the mayor and face relationship because faith found a father figure in the mayor it's not the right one okay but she found somebody that she could rely on and you could really see that dynamic between them too it was very interesting very dynamic I really enjoyed it before I get into the Oh oh I've got to talk about the prom the prom I think I crying that up so more than any other episode oh I don't know that's hard to say but when Buffy and Angel break up I sob and then when Buffy gets that award for class protector I saw so much like Buffy doesn't give out sugary sweet moments but when it does I eat them up like candy I never let them go I adored that frickin that I adore that seem so insanely much like it was just a culmination of Buffy always wanting to be recognized by her peers for all the work she's done and just for people to notice she's there and lo and behold they do notice she's there and they know that she has been protecting them this entire time frickin so adorable that whenever there was a problem or something creepy happened you seem to show up and stop it most of the people here have been saved by you or helped by you at one time or another we're proud to say that the class of 99 has the lowest mortality rate of any graduating class in Sunnydale history and we know at least part of that is because of you so the senior class offers its thanks and gives you this Buffy Summers class protector whap horses comes on with buffing angel freaking lose it prom amazing one of my favorite it's a lot of time then we have the finale so before I get into the finale I want to talk about some things I want to talk about our relationships we have so I've already kind of touched on the Buffy and faith relationship of how they're kind of like shadow cells if you will they both kind of want what each other doesn't have they both want what they don't have um we also have Buffy and Angel Buffy and Angel you know they get back together the season and we see it's very kind of tumultuous like you want them to be together but as the season goes on you know that there's not going to be a future for them really anniversary safe as houses what kind of future could there be but you know she is gonna go to college and angels gonna stay the same age forever and it's just hard and so they break up and it's sad but you understand it and it's just a time and time again I'm a Buffy nature shipper I will always I like to think of them in the back of my mind always together forever and ever that's just how I am but you know I understood why they broke up and I liked how it kind of ended amicably as much as it can be with you know a lot of kind of feeling still but it wasn't like something bad um another relationship freaking Xander Cordelia Susannah Xander Cordelia got together in season two and was kind of a hate to love relationship they got together I was really good and then Xander and Willow decided to get together and just blew everything up because little bit swollen Oz were together so they cheated on both of their partners with each other and I hated that so freaking much willow not got back together thank goodness because they are just an amazing couple oz forever like Oz just seals the show and every scene he's in with the one liners with cuz it doesn't say much but uh says everything's and so I mean the relationships in this season I did love willow and oz they were one of my favorite couples of all time well I'm Xander and Cordelia and ended very horribly I like that they got some sort of resolution by the end because the Ender again is a character that has has ups and downs for me for these early seasons like I get a lot of comments from you guys saying you don't ones and ER and I still get it but the end of season three I really feel like Xander is coming full circle and he's becoming a lot better I mean especially after he bought the dress recorded to kind of apologize and you see him growing up more and more and I appreciate that Xander will get better he's still always gonna be Xander kind of kind of a brat kind of juvenile that's just who's and ER is honestly um but I adore him he's got some great lines honestly willow is another character in love I love the Buffy below friendship honestly it's just so adorable how we'll get so jealous of her faith and Willow does make mistakes such as she did with Xander willow is just an amazing I loved her coming into her with the powers and learning Lauren being more self-assured and being more herself I adored that Buffy as well Buffy is my favorite character I don't say a lot with um books or shows or movies like Harry Potter is not my favorite character and Harry Potter but Buffy is my favorite character because I just think you see such a progression with her every single season but this season you see her really grow up and learn about love and kind of heartbreak and she also learns that she has to go to college and she's accepting her phase a Slayer forever and what to do I just I love Buffy I think she's got such a great dynamic I also love Giles I mean just every character in the show I have a soft spot for honestly like every single one of them I adore it so let's talk about the finale to wrap this up it's super long so graduation day is here the mayor's gonna ascend we have a plan together angel get shot by faith and he's gonna die from a poison unless he drinks a Slayers blood Buffy goes to kill face she stabs her doesn't quite kill her so still won't help you why though should have been that be Buffy officer self up to you know get bitten by angel which is very it's very interesting seem I think it represents something else if you get when I'm saying here like in sexual and I think I read somewhere it's like somebody said that's his thinnest metaphor ever uh huh I think I might have been patched from there too I promise I don't mean to copy them all thinks he says I just love what he says but and then we have the graduation date battle happen and I love the moment where they get all the school and they take the robes off and they have cross and the stakes and crossbows they have fire they all team together up to take this demon down first away it is amazing I love that finale I think it's a great one I wouldn't say it's one of my favorite all-time finales it doesn't pack a punch as much as season the twos when buffy kills angel that one packs an insane punch graduation day it's just a big bad we defeat him yay all is good that's a great finale but it's not one of my favorites and not it's not an emotional wreck or gut punch as their other season it's like I'm looking at you season two and five and six even um but though this one was just a nice kind of wrap to high school like they blew up their school they survived the battle that was high school I adored it I thought it was great also at the end of this season we see is relief and if you haven't already surmised by now that angel is getting his own show Angel has his own show a question to you if you're watching is would you like to watch Buffy and Angel simultaneously meaning as an angel begin season 1 when Buffy's doing season 4 so do you wanna watch Buffy Season 4 and Angel season 1 and then Buffy Season 5 Angel season 2 would you like to watch them together I personally am gonna do that because I've watched Buffy a lot but I don't think I've ever done a rewatch of Angel in fact I don't think I've ever even finished Android I don't think I've ever watched the last season the fifth season so I'm gonna do it I'm gonna watch Angel and not Angel I will tell you is a much darker show I would kind of compare Angel to Buffy's all about kind of growing up and learning to embrace you know your Slayers and doing with the demons that are real dealing with demons that you know are fictional but also kind of put it in together with demons and your real life whereas Angel is about character that's been alive for several years and have done a lot of bad things and is trying to atone for his actions like you're recovering like alcoholic I've heard it compared to is kind of like that show so it's a much darker show it's all about angel atoning for his sins pretty much let's just say that so I like Angel I don't like it nearly as much as Buffy but there are crossover episodes especially in season 4 and season 5 of Buffy those two are where they cross over the most because they are on the same network after that it gets a little bit dicey but I say if you really want the full experience of watching Buffy I would also watch Angel watch them I don't know if I'm gonna watch full on season for Buffy and then season 1 of Angel I might try to do one one that makes any sense but I'm gonna do it if you guys want to do it too let me know I'd love to hear but either way season three if I can give a rating a full 5 out of 5 I loved every single I mean there was no episode other than dead man's party which was my least favorite episode by the way then I didn't absolutely like really enjoy my favorite episodes hands down were bang candy lovers walk the witch doppelganger and earshot and the prom and graduation day those are my favorites favorites so a lot of favorites I also really enjoyed the Zeppo I also really liked bad girls and face up and trick I also really enjoyed choices honestly too so season 3 I think is the Golden Age of Buffy Season 3 is where it hits its stride it does amazingly well and we're gonna enter season 4 and season 4 I don't know if it's my least favorite season I will say it has some my least favorite episodes of all time so there's that that's gonna be fun but either way sees importance also got a couple of really good episodes that are some of my favorites of all time as well so she did worth loom mix back I'm kind of not looking forward to it because I don't love the season that much but as always I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions about season 3 what you enjoyed about it what you didn't enjoy about it again I will link all the links for slay along down below I will also link passion of the nerd season 3 die I highly recommend you watch them they are amazing believe you me I love them so much so let me wrap this up because I am talking forever too long about this I could talk about Buffy forever and ever apparently he better love do your thoughts thank you so much for watching bye\n"