Join us as we discuss Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 4, episode 15, “This Year’s Girl,” and episode 16, “Who Are You?”

Superfans: Selina and Caitlin
Newbies: Mitch and Kristen

Fun Facts:

Kristen celebrated her birthday this week and watched Ghostbusters: Answer the Call with her family. Mitch saw the new Blair Witch movie and doesn’t recommend it unless you’re watching it by yourself in the theater. Caitlin and her puppy, Gage, are still settling in after meeting with the Animal Behaviorist this week. And Selina is overwhelmed by all the good stuff on TV this season, but is following The Good Place quite faithfully and will be reviewing Netflix’s The Crown.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 4, episode 15, “This Year’s Girl”, and episode 16, “Who Are You?”:
-Mitch is still shipping Fuffy while Kristen completely forgot about Faith. Whoops.
-There’s definitely an “out of sight, out of mind” thing going on with some periphery characters.
-All the applause to Sarah Michele Gellar and Eliza Dushku on portraying each other.
-Faith is still struggling with who she is, and this episode puts that front and center in our first Faith-centric episode in quite a while.
-Is Faith ultimately just looking for connection in her life?
-We get into the Buffy-the-character discussion again because there’s just so much to think about after seeing Buffy through Faith’s eyes.
-Faith has some interesting coma-dreams. While she’s the good gal in those dreams, she’s not the kickass Faith we have seen in her waking life.
-Faith is definitely a villain, but that’s mostly because we’re on Buffy’s side, and Faith has been working against Buffy.
-We talk a lot about reluctant heroes, but Faith is sort of a reluctant villain.
-Buffy is specifically not talking about Angel to Riley. Thoughts?
-The body swap trope: We’re all fans. It’s definitely integral to Faith’s development.
-That Spike/BFaith interaction was intense. Spike likes dominant ladies.
-We have a lot of Tara/ Willow thoughts. A LOT.
-Should Buffy be mad at Riley for sleeping with BFaith and not knowing Buffy wasn’t truly there?
-What is up with the Watcher’s Council? What exactly is there purpose without a slayer to watch?
-Some quick appreciation for the Giles/Xander/Spike scene in the alley.
-Favorite Scenes for 4×15 “This Year’s Girl”
-Favorite Lines for 4×15 “This Year’s Girl”
-Favorite Scenes for 4×16 “Who Are You?”
-Favorite Lines for 4×16 “Who Are You?”

Listener Feedback:
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-We have one listener who feels grateful she got to watch Avatar: The Last Airbender when it first aired. She also discovered this Buffy/Angel treat on Ebay.

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-Pro-tip for newbies! There’s a Chrome extension called Flix Plus that blurs episode titles and descriptions on Netflix.
-Angel is a very common name in Latino culture, which is good to know following the discussion of his name in our last episode.
-A comment on Hypable has us wondering if this crazy, fun theory could be true! Is there something more to Tara than meets the eye?
-One more treat folks. Mark Blucas, known to us as Riley, did in fact play Fred from Scooby-Doo in a live-action context. Feel free to check out the bit from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, but be aware of the Kevin Smith factor. This clip contains strong language and/or a drug reference or two.

Mitch’s Musings:

Kristen chimes in with the only reference to the word prodigal that she knows as a possible clue to the storyline for The Prodigal, and Mitch has a lot of horror movie/jewelry thoughts for The Ring.

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